Learn To Play "Imagine" John Lennon: Easy Piano Play By Ear

1. Welcome To This Class!: Welcome, welcome awesome pianos. In this class you will learn how to play John Lennon's iconic song, Imagine. And so happy to have you joining me in this class. My name is Marina and I am your instructor for this class. I've helped people all over the world reach their piano and goals through my courses on my website, the piano keys.com. And the tutorial is on my YouTube channel, the piano keys. I'm also a music notes.com. Signature artists and people all over the world have enjoyed playing my piano arrangements. I've created an easy piano arrangement of John Lennon's. Imagine this course. You can choose to learn that arrangement or you can take the option of learning an easier version. I teach you both versions in this class, you can download the song map, which you'll find linked below. And that will help you navigate the lessons in this course depending on if you're playing the easy version or the easier version, I'll show you how to recognize and learn the repeating patterns in the song so that we can streamline and quick and that learning process, if you don't know how to read sheet music, that's okay. You don't need to know how to read sheet music to follow this class. But if you do read music and you'd like to get a copy of the sheet music. That link is also below this video. All you need for this class is a device to view the lessons on a piano or a keyboard to play and your desire to want to learn this song. I'm so excited to have you in this class. In the following video, I'll show you both the easy version and the easier version of this song. Let's go. 3. Let's Learn The Intro!: We'll start with the intro or the introduction to the song. You'll learn the left-hand and the right-hand. We'll put them together and add the petal. 4. Intro Left Hand: We'll start with the left hand. And once you learn this left-hand pattern, you're going to get a lot of use from it. And it's really quite simple. We start with, it says finger on the C below middle C, Here's middle C. I'm going down one octave. And second finger on g. Remember that all of the fingerings that I gave you are just suggestions. They're not necessarily even the best fingerings for you or for me. But when I write in the fingerings, I have to choose one option out of many. So I choose one that I think will help the most people to play easily. But again, that doesn't mean it's the best fingering available. Try my fingering. If you find something that works much better for you, then go ahead and stick with it. There's no such thing as the right fingering because the right fingering is whatever fingering works for you. Okay? So we're gonna play those two notes together. Then when you lift, you're going to play the C again and this time add an a on top with your thumb. Pick up, take that thumb to the B flat and then slide it down to be, you don't have to slide it by pushing. Just kind of just let it go down the side. Do you see that the black key has kind of a curvy edge to it, a curved edge. We're going to take advantage of that and just go down like that. Practice this. Remember you don't want to squeeze too hard. If you press too hard, It's very hard to you press your heart. It difficult to slide. So just like if you were going to get on a slide, if you remember when you were a child, you got to honest slide and you just kind of let yourself go. Same. You're getting at the top of the slide and you're just letting yourself go to the bottom. So I'm really short slide, but it's all sides. All right. Once you've learned that this combination of notes, you're going to apply it lots and lots of times. So let's play the C and the G together. That for four counts, which will be easy to keep track of when we add the right-hand, so we really don't need to count right now. Then you play the scene that a, you pick up and you do the B-flat B. That's slightly it. So altogether in the intro, we're gonna do that two times three. So let's go from the beginning. I'll just count a sauce. One, two, ready? Go to three. Pick up 4123 pickup for 8123, up, 123 pickup for a. You see that B flat is a quick, another quick note. Okay, so you actually don't play that again because then we're going into the verse. So altogether one more time for the intro, because we're gonna use this pattern a lot. Okay, here we go. Ready? And 12341234812341234, a band. You don't have to count. You can just feel it. It's fine. 5. Intro Right Hand: The right hand is going to play basically three different kinds of courts here. I'll tell you what they are as we go through them. But if you don't want to keep track of coordinates, that's perfectly fine. We're gonna start with a C chord, C, E, G. I'm using fingers 124. We're gonna play that chord three times. Then we play the bottom two nodes again, we leave out the gene and we put a b on top. This is called a C major seven chord. We only do that one time, three times on the C major chord and one time on the C major seventh chord. Let's do that together. Here we go. Here it is. From here we go into an F major chord with a C on the bottom. We've got CFAA, 135 fingers, and we do that four times. Four. That's basically the entire intro, because we're just going to repeat it again from the beginning. From the beginning, we do three C major chords. Let's play 123 then the C major seven. Now to the F chord, four times 1234, back to the C major chord, 13, then the C major seven chord, then the F chord four times. And that's it. So let's play it from the beginning together and I won't talk. So you can really hear that music. One, two, ready go. That's it. That's the entire intro. 6. Intro Hands Together: Now we're going to put the hands together on B1 or on the first chord. The hands play at the same time like this. Then the left hand holds while finishes out that measure. Now we're gonna move to the x-coordinate right hand and the C and the a and the left-hand. More times. 234 then the left. For them, the left, you can think of it that way for than the left. If you are going to count it for four. Sorry. So let me show you those two measures. If you're looking at the music or playing just the first two measures right now. I'll do it for you without talking to you can hear that rhythm. Right, left, left. Then you do that whole thing again. Right, left, left. Let's do it together one time through 12. Ready? Go. Alright. You want to add the petal, which is a really good idea and very easy to do. What you're going to do is put it down with the very first quarter foot and hands go down at the same time here. You hold the petal. Then after you play this chord, right after up-down, down with your foot, up, down, up, down. What we're doing is we're changing on every beat one you want to change right after you play the chord so that you have an overlap of sound and no gaps. That is the entire intro to the song. 7. Now You Know The Intro!: Now that you know the intro, share it with so world. Maybe not the world, but share with your friends or your family members. A really great place to show your progress is in our Facebook community, piano practice tips with the piano keys. The link to join that group is below. Go ahead and take a video recording on your phone of yourself playing the intro and post it to that group. We will cheer you on and give you lots of motivation to keep going. Also, if you have any questions about the course or about your progress, feel free to ask me in that group piano practice tips with a piano keys. The link is below. Let's keep going. 8. Verse 1 Left Hand: You're going to love this because in verse one, the left-hand just repeats what it has already learned in the intro. One change at the very end. So play it with me. We're gonna go through, let's see, 1233 times exactly the way we learned that in the fourth one will have a different ending. Here we go. Ready for this slide. Here we go. This is the second time we're playing now. The slide. Third time. Slide. Now on the fourth time you play it the same way you did before. But no slide this time, what we're gonna do is play that low. See what the second thing, alright, so that's the only change you want to do with accounting. Let's go through you can just listen to me. You don't have to count out loud if that's difficult for you. I'll count off 12. Ready? Go. 12341234123423482334. An his own Last 12341234. That last C is the only thing that is new. 9. Verse 1 Right Hand: The right-hand gets to play both the melody and the chords. But taking turns between the two, we're going to start first finger on e, right above middle C. You play at one time. Then third finger on G three times. Then fifth finger on B2 times. Now, fourth finger on a second finger on S. Now we go to the courts F and C fingers 213 times. That's the group one of our first verse. Let's play it again. Here we go. Remember that learning in groups is really fast and effective way of organizing the music and your mind so that you know what to play one after the other. So it's not just a bunch of notes, but a group that you're learning as one unit. Let's play group one against starting on E. Here we go. So you want to pause the video here and practice playing group one, or you can go back plate with me, play it on your own. Do you want to get really comfortable with this group one, when you're ready, move on. We're going to learn group two. Group two is very similar to group one. There's only one difference, so we're gonna start again on E, then three times on G. Here's where the difference comes in. Just one time Omby group one we had two times ON be congruent to we have one time on. The rest is the same. Now, To be quite honest with you, if you play two b's here and nobody's really going to care, it can just go ahead and repeat her one. But if you want to go, true to what John Lennon sings with the lyrics, it's only one, BE bottom line, do it however you want. But group two is very similar to group one. Let's play group to the way that John wrote it and the way that my arrangement goes. So here we go. Three times g, just one time b. And then he's got our courts. That's group to practice it. Repeat group one again, it's really not that different. When you're ready. Move on. Now, group three is exactly the same as group. That's great. Let's play group three, which is really group one. You already know. Now group four is very similar to group two, with just one difference. We still start with the first finger, then g, third finger. Now instead of repeating that g, go down to first finger E, and then back to G. And from here it's just like group two. Let me show you that. Then we do our chords. Let's compare and contrast group two and group four. Here's grip to all Gs. Here's group for not all Gs. Here. When I say all geez, I'm talking about after that first e. Now, let's take groups 34 and let's play them together. When you've got that, let's play it from the very beginning of verse one. Here we go. These are always the group two. Group three is exactly like group one. And group form very similar to group two. But it has this instead of the GI for you all the way. Was no talking. Here we go. Alright, great. 10. Verse 1 Hands Together: Left-hand goes first, then just hold while the right-hand plays its melody. Here, where the right-hand starts playing two notes at a time. That's where the left-hand comes in. Again. Let's practice just that much. There we go. One more time. Left hand first, then write together. Now the left hand holds the right-hand place. It's three. As NCEES. He comes to left, right, left, left, right, left slide, right, left slide. Go ahead and practice that till it feels pretty comfortable. All right, From here, we're moving on to group two. Left-hand comes in first, then the right. Now together. Here we go. Pretty easy. Let's put groups 12 together. If you're ready, if not, pause and get that coordination going. Here we go. Ready. Remember to keep it relaxed. Loose risk. Now from here, you just play that whole thing again. Coming up on that one difference in the left-hand. Here. There's no slide. The very last group looks like this. That left-hand move it down, right, left. Adding the petal is gonna be easy. You're going to change it on every beat, one basically whenever let the left-hand plays a chord, you were holding your petals from before. From the intro, you're gonna play that left hand and changed the petal change means up and down, up and down. Okay, so you're holding the petal, play the left-hand up, down. Just hold it. Here. We go. Up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down. Another way to say Up, down its change. Change. Ready, Here's that. Different partners. When we say change pedal, what we mean is we clearing it and putting it down again. Now you know the verse. 11. Now You Know Verse 1!: Now you know the intro and verse one practice playing them flowing from one into the other. So start with the intro and go right into the verse. The more you practice, the easier it'll feel if you're playing the easier version of the song, That's the only verse that you need to learn. And now we'll move on and learn the next section of the song. 12. Pre-Chorus 1 Left Hand: All right, so I'm calling this part the pre-chorus. Some people might call it the bridge, is basically the part that goes between the verse and the actual course. Alright? Left hand is going to play a lot of octaves, octaves, or when you have the same note, S and F. But there are eight minutes apart. Octave stands for eight notes, 12345678. So first we play an octave. We play those same two notes, but one at a time, starting with the top note, then the bottom. Let's practice that S. Next. We move down one note to the e and repeat that pattern together. Then, first finger, sixth singer, we move down one more note and we do that same pattern again together, top or bottom. Then you do one word, moved down to the sea. Same pattern, except you just play the top note, not the bottom. So let's see what that looks like again. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, see. And now just one button. But practices that. We're halfway through the free chorus. When you're ready to move on. Keep going with the video. Now we jump up to Gs octaves. We play both notes together. Then just the bottom one. Both Gs, bottom one. Both j's is a bom, bom, bom, bum, bum, Easy-peasy. All right, Let's put it together with the beginning of the pre-chorus or the bridge, starting with RFs, ready, go, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. That's it. That's the whole left hand. 13. Pre-Chorus 1 Right Hand: The right-hand starts on first finger a, then 13 ground C and come back to your aid after that. And then that to the c. We're only playing AAC. Aac. Then to ease with your fifth finger. Then a D with your fourth. That's our first group. Again, if you don't like these figures, it's okay. Use your own. Let's practice group one against starting on a one more time. Group one. Alright, practice that when you're ready, move on to group 2. First finger moves down to F. Second on a, fourth on c. Now, first finger on G, third finger around B. And then just play that P by itself. Play the G and begin. C14 finger. Then F and D 15, oops, I went and five on the F and D. That is grouped to look at it again. Let's play that group two. Here we go. Fac, GNB, be by itself. Jamie again. C, F, D. Alright, practice that when you're ready, we're gonna put together group one and group two. Here we go. Let's start a group, one of the pre-chorus, a, CAC, ys. Then D. Now we're gonna move down to F, AC, GMB be by itself, GNB. See fd. Let's do that much and I won't say the, not an angel, just play ready. This is groups 12 starting on a. All right, once you've got that in your fingers, come back for the little tiny part, which will be our group 3. Third finger goes to e, then come back to that e, and then go down to D. So later on this will come back as you. All right, so once you've got that, we're gonna put all three groups together of the pre-chorus source. Here we go, starting on a group two. Group three. Very good practice, as much as unique to what might happen is you practice and you know it today, you can come back tomorrow and you feel like you forgot a little bit. That doesn't mean anything about you that is absolutely normal and we all experience the same exact thing. But it basically it goes into your long-term memory, longer-term memory, and then you have to bring it back into your short-term memory by reviewing it a few times. That's all. 14. Pre-Chorus 1 Hands Together: Alright, left-hand goes first, then the right. Now the next two notes are gonna be hands together. Let's practice that left, right together. One more time. Left, right together. Now, together. Then together again. The left than right. Let's practice just that much from the beginning. Left-right to start together. Together. Left, right, than left by itself. What I recommend is that you practice this part a lot before moving on. So this is what it looks like. You want to see that slower, it looks like this. Alright, practice that and then move on when you're ready. The next part of the pre-chorus starts with the left-hand by itself than the right. Together, right? So it goes left together, right? Now together, right? Left. Let's do that again. Together. You can even say that out loud if that helps you to remember together. Right, left as it makes you more confused than leave out the speaking part. So let's do again from the second half of the pre-chorus. So it goes left together, right? Together, right? Let's do that without talking. Last know to gather here. Together. Left. Then the right-hand does its thing. Let's take it from this second half of the pre-chorus and I won't talk and I'll go nice and slow so you can hear. Alright, once you have that in your fingers, come back or keep going, we're gonna do the entire pre-chorus. Here we go. When you're ready to add the puddle, what we're going to do, you're already holding the petal from averse. You're going to play the left hand and change right after you play that. Change. Now here to play, change, change, change, change, change, change, and then you're holding it here. Again, I'll just say change where I'm changing some holding from base64, change. Alright, that's the whole pre-chorus. 15. Checking In With The Song Map: Now you know the intro, the verse one, and the pre-chorus of imagined. This is so exciting. If you are learning the easy version, which is the original version of my sheet music, Keep going to the next lesson, which is V2. If you're learning the easier version, you'll want to skip ahead and find the lesson called easier Horus. Let's keep going. 16. Verse 2 Left Hand: Now in verse two, left hand is going to play basically with it already played in verse one. But if you choose, you don't have to do this. You can just go ahead and keep the same thing that you did for our first one. But if you choose, what we're gonna do is play that first chord two times before moving on. In the first verse, verse, we did hold it, hold it, hold it. And then we did the slide. Now what we're doing is one in four. And then during that slide, that's the only difference here. We do that three times through. On the fourth time, the ending is different, just like it was in the first verse. I take that second finger down to see. Really it's the same thing as verse one, except for a playing this chord two times before moving on. 17. Verse 2 Right Hand: The right hand was doing that. Then going into verse two, he went to pick up and put the fifth finger on scene. That finished, that finishes up. Now from here, very similar to verse one. And then that S and F and c3 times that. Basically the same thing that we did in verse one. Except we're starting with our seats to begin with, if that's C really throws you off, you can leave it out as you can just do. Then go here. Or you can put in the seat. Either way is fine. So that's our group one. Already know it basically. Group two is again very similar to what we already know are doing E, three, Gs, one. Then we do that. And the courts, these are all the same, right? These are always the same. So group two, it looks like this. All right, so going back to group one and playing groups 12, it looks like this. Here's drip to practice that when you're ready, move on. Now, group three is very similar to what we already know. We're starting on E, are doing three Gs in a row, two Bs. And then our usual thing here. Does that look familiar to you because it is group one from first one. You already know it. Then the very last group in verse two, again starts on E. Then just one be up there. Does that look familiar? It should, because it's the same as group two from verse one. Basically the second half of V2 is what you already learned in verse one. It looks like this. All right, It's great when we find things that are repetitions of what we've already learned. Let's play verse two from the beginning with that seat, which you can leave out if, if it messes you up. Play the C chords that we know. This is like verse one. If you get confused with the number of repetitions for each note, just don't worry about it. It's approximate. It's a pop song, so it's not like you're playing Chopin or Bach. It doesn't have to be exact, like it does have to be in classical music. So that is the right hand. 18. Verse 2 Hands Together: Now hands together to start. Then again, that left-hand. This part, you already know. It's the same every time. Now left, right. Together. Here's the part that you already know. Let's pause here and do that first half again, I'll go slower and I won't talk. Alright, practice that. And then the second half of verse to the right-hand side into exactly what you did in verse one and the left hand is just going to repeat that chord. That's the only difference, goes left together. You already know this part because it's the same every single time. Left, right? Together. The part that email left hand is going to move down to see, boom, right there. The very last group of v2 looks like this. Ready for that left hand to move down? Now to play for you the entire verse two without talking. When you're ready to add the puddle. Basically we're gonna do is change it again on every beat one. So you're holding from before, you're going to change here. Hold it. Change, change, change, change, change. Right now you know the second verse. 19. Pre-Chorus 2 Hands Together: The Free Corps that happens here is a same exact pre-chorus that happened the first time. So let's just play it through all of this. That's it, easy. 20. Checking In: How are you doing? Do you have any questions? Let me know in our Facebook group piano practice tips with the piano keys. I would love to see your progress. So if you have a phone, prop it up next to your piano, play a few notes and upload it to the group. Can't wait to see. 21. Chorus 1 Left Hand: All right, the part we've all been waiting for, the chorus. You may say I'm a dreamer, that part. Alright, so the left hand is going to do that octave bump bomb again. So the same way that we started the pre-chorus, S and F, exactly the same. Now, in the pre-chorus, we went down in the course, we're gonna go up to G. So we start on F. Bomb, got a G octaves on thumb. Now down to see your pump on. I hope that's helping you. I'm not being totally annoying. Then E, then the bump, bump. That's the first part of the course. Let's do that much again. So it's SNF, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. The second part, you repeat that exactly. So let's do it again. This is gonna be the second time through bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. So far we've done it two times through. Guess what? We'll do it another time, heat. So this is our third time. G. Now the fourth times starts the same. We do bom, bom, bom, bom. Then it changes. We got down and play the C with our pinky second finger. First finger. And the second finger goes over to be a kind of a walk-up. We call it a walk-up because the notes are walking up. See, basically do it three times the same exact way. The fourth time, the very end would do this. All right, Let's take it from the beginning of the chorus. Here we go, starting with our Fs, ready and keep your wrist. Since our second time through becomes a third time. The fourth time this is the one to change. Ready, got a walk-up, TJ. Alright, that's fun to play. 22. Chorus 1 Right Hand: So again, the right-hand was coming from It's going to end up on the sea. First finger, third finger on a fancy thrombi. Then play ABC. Repeat that. So that's our group one. Look at it. It goes like this. Let's play group one again. Here we go, starting on C, Nice and slow. That's the part. That's what this says, right? So you want to practice this, you can even sing it if that helps you remember. This year. That's what this is. All right, practice that. Now group two is very, very short. E G-sharp, 12. You play that G-sharp again this time, put a beyond top with your fourth finger. Then 13 f, and that's grouped to looks like this. That part is not melody, it's not being sung. It's basically the chords. Once you have it, Let's string it together with group one starting on C. Here are the chords group to practice that. Now, moving on third finger is gonna play that a by itself to see with your fifth finger. Now to bes, your fourth finger is already there. Let's use it. And then reach down for that E. That's group three. So it looks like this. I'm not the only one. You can see that I simplified the melody to make it easier to play. So instead of doing them, but I'm not, we're playing, but it's okay. You can simplify it and still sounds good. Practice this group. Then when you're ready, let's bring it together. From the beginning of the chorus. Here is group two. Group three. Group four is the same as group two. Alright, so that was group for, but it was repetition of group two. Moving on, The next group, group five. I'm going to play two A's, C, B, fourth finger. And then cba. That's the part. Let's play that and go ahead and sing it someday. That is group five. Alright, let's go from the beginning when you're ready. On Group1. Those courts again, someday. Alright. Once you have that, are going to go on and learn the next group. And it's really easy. You're going to do B, C, AG, easy. This is group six. You don't have to know the group numbers. We're just keeping track. Can do that with singing someday. This is a park, John. All right, once you have that, let's put it together from the beginning. If you see what we're doing is we just keep adding on to what we know. We go back and learn and play it again from the beginning of that section, add-on, go back, play from the beginning add-on so that you know the order of operations here, here we go. Here are those chords. Chords again. This part kind of flows one group into the next. Someday. That might take a little practice. After this, we do the chords again. So far we've done that three times now and the world will live as one. That part is coming up. Excuse me, my thinking was not very good. At second finger on c two times. Step up, d, then come right back down. Then go back up to DI. See. It looks like this. We're doing a lot of rolling back and forth between those three notes. Cc live as one, That's the part. So let's practice that. Notice that the course is taking a bit longer to learn. Well, it's more interesting. There's more happening here, and that's the job of the chorus is to be interesting, more interesting than the verses that is. And it makes sense that this would take a little longer to learn. Perfectly normal. When you're ready, let's play the entire right hand on the chorus. Here we go. Corns. But I'm not the only one. In courts. Help someday. Chords. If you need to practice a few days, a week, two weeks on that, that is perfectly fine. There is a lot happening here. You want to make sure you've got that right hand handled. You have it set because we're going to add the left-hand to it. That means you're going to have to keep track of more stuff. Spend as much time as you need to. On this right hand. Maybe even play it while you're watching TV or something like that so that your attention is a little bit distracted because that's what's going to happen when you put the hands together, your attention is going to be on both hands at the same time. 23. Chorus 1 Hands Together: All right, Here we go, hands together. Now left-hand by itself. Together, right? Together. Once you're just that much. Let's do it again. I'm gonna go much, much slower. Here we go. I added that one more time. Go ahead and add the adult left-hand up. Practice this much. Do not go any further until this feels fairly doable. It doesn't have to be perfect, but you don't want to be panicking. If you're at the panic stage, which is a normal stage by the way, you need to go slower and really know which hand is doing. What if you have the music, it'll be easier to see that visually represented. You don't have to have the music, but if you have it, look at it and just kinda see what lines up one after the other. Once you have that, we're gonna keep going. Here is the chords that we're playing in the right-hand sides together, together, Left together. Let's just do that much again. Again. Practice that we're going to put it together from the beginning. Here we go. When you're ready, we're gonna move on. Here. It's hands together, right? It by itself. And then together then left. What that looks like from this new part. But I'm not the only one that's apart from here. You did those chords again that you already know. Now the right-hand plays by itself together. Right? In either right or left. That looks like this from the cords, right? Right going into it. Here it is much slower if you need to see it slower. Okay, practice that. I'm gonna go back to the beginning of the chorus and play it. And then we're just going to add that last bit, the end. But don't do this until you're ready. Okay, so we go from the beginning of the course. Okay, From here we did those chords again that you already know. This. Then here is the new section. We're adding. Hands go together. Now, right-hand by itself. Right? Together. Left. I'll play it from this last bit with the Court's leading into it nice and slow. When you're ready, let's do the entire course. No paddle just yet. We want to make sure we've got the hands going. Here we go. Alright, so that's pretty long. But the good news is when the course comes back at the end of the song, it's almost exactly the same as what you just learned. The only thing is going to be at the end is a, we're gonna, we're gonna change the ending, but that's about it was gonna be like OneNote different. Once you've learned this course, you're going to reuse it again later in the song when you're ready to add the paddle, here's what we're gonna do. You're holding the petal for me for your gonna change that right on that first chord. Change. Basically every two beats. Fear of looking at the music, you'll see a change, change, change. Here's where it, where it gets different. So you go change, change, change, change. On our last part, the left hand. Every time the left hand place the pedal goes up and down. You just learned the hardest part of the entire song. Congratulations. 24. You've Come A Long Way!: We're now in the homestretch, even though it looks like there are several new sections coming up in the song, a lot of what is coming up will be repetitions of music that you've already learned. So let's keep going. 25. Verse 3 Left Hand: Alright, left-hand of this verse is the same as verse two. So let's just review it. Here we go. Every single bit of this. Remember you don't have to repeat that part. You can just hold onto it one time. You can hold it if you want or you complete. Here's that left-hand see, exactly the same as v2. 26. Verse 3 Right Hand: Verse three starts off with four G's third finger to bes fifth finger. Then those chords that you know, go ahead and learn that. That's group one. Once you know that group two is almost the same with one slight difference, you still do the three, sorry, the fourth Gs. They still did the four Gs with a third finger. Then just one big set of two. That's the only difference from the first group. Then our chords, like every single time. Once you know that, Let's put together groups 12 of verse three. So many numbers. All right, Here we go. Now from here, it's going to be the same thing as the second part of verse two or the second half of verse to, you already know this. When you're ready. Let's play all of verse three. Here we go. 27. Verse 3 Hands Together: Let's put the ions together. I left hand goes first. This part, you know, so well by now. Let's play just that much again, nice and slow. Now this next part is what you already learned in V2. Goes left-hand. See? Alright. Pauling is going to be the same as in verse two. You're basically going to just change on beat one. So let's go through it real quick. Change. Holding here. That's the pattern. One last change. 28. Pre-Chorus 3 Hands Together: All right, The free chorus is the same one that you already know. Let's play it with pedal and everything. Here we go. No. Not one thing that's different from the pre-course that you've already learned. 29. Easier Chorus Left Hand: All right, the part we've all been waiting for, the chorus. You may say I'm a dreamer, that part. Alright, so the left hand is going to do that octave bom, bom again, the same way that we started the pre-chorus, S and F, exactly the same. Now, in the pre-chorus, we went down in the course. We're gonna go up to the G. So we start on F. Bomb, got a G octaves on thumb. Now down to C. And your pump. That's helping you not being totally annoying than the bump, bump. That's the first part of the course. Let's do that much again. So it's SNF, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. In the second part, you repeat that exactly. So let's do it again. This is gonna be the second time through. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. So far we've done it two times through. Guess what? We'll do it another time. So this is our third time. The fourth time starts the same way. Do bump, bum, bum, bum. And then it changes. We got down and play the C. Basically do it three times the same exact way. The fourth time at the very end. Get from the beginning of the course. Here we go, starting with our Fs, ready and keep your wrist. Second, it becomes a third time. Here's the fourth time this is going to change. Ready? Got to see. 30. Easier Chorus Right Hand: So again, the right-hand was coming from It's going to end up on the sea. First finger and then third finger on a to town C for thrombi. Then play ABC. Repeat that. So that's our group one. Look at it. It goes like this. Let's play group one again. Here we go, starting on C, Nice and slow. That's the part. That's what this says, right? So you want to practice this, you can even sing it if that helps you remember this year. And that's what this is. All right, practice that. Now group two is very, very short. E G-sharp. Wanted to play that G-sharp again this time put up beyond top with your fourth finger. Then 13 f, and that's grouped to looks like this. That part is not melody, it's not being sung. It's basically the chords. Once you have it, Let's string it together with group one starting on C. Here are the chords gripped to practice that. Now moving on third finger is gonna play that a by itself to see with your fifth finger. Now to bes, your fourth finger is already there. Let's use it. And then reach down for that E. That's group three. So it looks like this. I'm not the only one. You can see that I simplified the melody to make it easier to play. So instead of doing them, but I'm not, we're playing, but it's okay. You can simplify it and still sounds good. Practice this group. Then when you're ready, let's bring it together. From the beginning of the chorus. Here is group two. Group three. Group four is the same as group two. Alright, so that was group for, but it was repetition of grip to moving on. The next group, group five. I'm going to play two A's, C, B, fourth finger. And then cba. That's the part. Let's play that and go ahead and sing it. Someday. That is grouped five. Alright, let's go from the beginning when you're ready. Anchor point. Those chords again. Someday. Alright, once you have that, are going to go on and learn the next group. And it's really easy. You're going to do B, C, AG, easy. This is group six. You don't have to know the group numbers. We're just keeping track. Can do that with singing someday. This is a park. John. Once you have that, let's put it together from the beginning. If you see that we're doing is we just keep adding on to what we know. We go back and learn and play it again from the beginning of that section, add-on, go back, play from the beginning add-on so that you know the order of operations here, here we go. Here are those chords. Chords again. This part kind of flows one group into the next. Someday. That might take a little practice. After this, we do the chords again. So far we've done that three times now and the world will live as one. That part is coming up. Excuse me, my thinking was not very good. At second finger on c two times. Step up, d, then come right back down. Then go back up to DI. So it looks like this. We're doing a lot of rolling back and forth between those three notes. Cc live as one, That's the part. So let's practice that. Notice that the course is taking a bit longer to learn. Well, it's more interesting. There's more happening here, and that's the job of the chorus is to be interesting, more interesting than the verses that is. And it makes sense that this would take a little longer to learn. Perfectly normal. When you're ready, let's play the entire right hand on the chorus. Here we go. Corns. But I'm not the only one. I hope someday. Chords. If you need to practice a few days, a week, two weeks on that, that is perfectly fine. There is a lot happening here. You want to make sure you've got that right hand handled. You have it set because we're going to add the left-hand to it. That means you're going to have to keep track of more stuff. Spend as much time as you need to. On this right hand. Maybe even play it while you're watching TV or something like that so that your attention is a little bit distracted because that's what's going to happen when you put the hands together, your attention is going to be on both hands at the same time. 31. Easier Chorus Hands Together: All right, Here we go. Hands together. Now left-hand by itself, together, right? Together. Let's do just that much. Let's do it again. I'm gonna go much, much slower. Here we go. I added that there. One more time. Go ahead and add the adult left hand pump up. Practice this much. Do not go any further until this feels fairly doable. It doesn't have to be perfect, but you don't want to be panicking. If you're at the panic stage, which is a normal stage by the way, you need to go slower and really know which hand is doing. What if you have the music, it'll be easier to see that visually represented. You don't have to have the music, but if you have it, look at it and just kinda see what lines up one after the other. Once you have that, we're gonna keep going. Here is the chords that we're playing in the right-hand sides together, together, Left together. Let's just do that much again. Again. Practice that we're going to put it together from the beginning. Here we go. When you're ready, we're gonna move on. Here. It's hands together, right? It by itself. And then together then left. What that looks like from this new part. But I'm not the only one that's apart from here. You did those chords again that you already know. Now the right-hand plays by itself together. Right? It's either right or left. That looks like this from the cords, right? Right going into it. Here it is much slower if you need to see it slower. Practice that. I'm gonna go back to the beginning of the chorus and play it. And then we're just gonna add that last bit, the end. But don't do this until you're ready. Okay, so here we got from the beginning of the chorus. Okay, From here we did those chords again that you already know. This. Then here is the new section we're adding. Hands go together. Now right-hand by itself. Both play Left-hand octave and just pull data from this last bit with the Court's leading into it. Nice and slow. When you're ready, let's do the entire course. No paddle just yet we want to make sure we've got the hand's going. Here we go. When you are ready to add the pedal, here's what we're gonna do. You're holding the petal for me for you're going to change it right on that first chord. Change, change. Basically every two beats. Looking at the music, you'll see a change, change, change, change, change. Now we're going to start slowing down here. Watch. Because we're getting to the end. Let's go from the beginning of the loris and if you want, Sing it nice and loud, I won't say it so you can hear the piano. Ready? Go it going. It's okay, Let's have fun. Kelly, fix it later. Starting to slow down. Then after we did it. Congratulations. 32. Chorus 2 Hands Together: Here we are at the final course. It's exactly the same as you'll learn in the first course. There's only one change. I'll play it for you and I'll show you what the changes. You know, Olive, It's so much fun. There's yay. Now we're gonna start slowing down here. Watch here. Because we're getting to the end. Here's the change. Play Left-hand octave and just folded. I'm gonna do it from, I hope someday you'll join us from there. All right. Here's the change. All right. That's it. Let's put it together. Let's go from the beginning of the last chorus. And if you want Sing it nice and loud, I won't say it. So you can hear the piano. Rowdy, go flare on, not just keep going, It's okay. It have fun, can always fix it later. Starting to slow down that octet. We did. Congratulations. 33. Congratulations!: Congratulations you did it. You now know how to play John Lennon's. Imagine you've worked really hard. I hope that you've had a great time. I had a wonderful time making this course for you. If you're interested in improving your technique or in learning how to read sheet music if you don't know that yet, or learning how to use the petals of the piano checkout my courses on my website, the piano keys.com, also check out my YouTube channel where I have hundreds of videos of tutorials of different songs and about theory and different parts of playing the piano. Remember that playing the piano is a journey, not a destination. Have a wonderful time playing the music that you love to go out. My other classes, keep practicing how fun, and I will see you soon. Bye.