Hey everybody! Alright, so this was a request to do Strawberry Fields Forever and honestly
it wasn't too hard for me to want to do it because I really love this song. I learned
it on guitar a while ago, so I thought I'd just transfer that over to piano. So here
it is, these are going to be the chords that go along with it if you are singing it. So
I won't be playing the melody with my fingers as well. This will be starting in the key
of F (F-chord - I mean). I believe that is what the original is, or at least the version
that I have is in that key. Possibly the original is not in that key. When I sing along to it
though it doesn't seem too crazy or too difficult or anything like that. Let's get started.
We will start with F. (Plays song) So you notice with playing the F-chord: F, A, C and
I'm also playing the F down here. It's just lightly accompanying it. I'm taking my F and
moving it down to E, and then Eb, or D#. (Plays song) I'm just adding a little Bb, A at the
end of it because that is what you hear in the song. (Plays song) After that, I'm moving
on down to Gm --- I'm sorry, lets do it up here. This
is another way of playing Gm. So its Bb, D, G. Then I play G down here. Then move to F
which is A, C, F. Then D# which is G, Bb, D# and then down to Bb. You may be familiar
with playing Bb as this chord: Bb, D, F. You can also switch your fingers down here and
play Bb --- I'm sorry, start down here with D, F, Bb. So this is what we have so far:
(Plays song) and then go down to G, F, D# and then Bb. That is when you would start
"Let me take you down..." that part. "Cause I'm going to..." This is hard to play with
the piano because in the actual song there is a guitar and it's going (makes guitar sound
of sliding fingers down the frets) you know? With the piano you can do something like that.
(Plays song) "I'm going to..." So we have this part here that we just did. that is the
beginning part of the song and that will sort of be used in the rest of the song. The other
main part of the song is this right here. So after, "going to..." Now this is actually
Fm7 which is (Plays song). If you listen to the song, at least the version I'm listening
to its not just like (plays the chords in a 4/4 basic fashion). Now its still cool,
but it switches it up with the guitar, and so they are playing different notes within
that chord. (Plays song) Then it goes up to G7. (Plays song) So, so far it's (Plays song).
Then we go down to D# and then back up to G, D# --- So the progression is like this
(just playing the chords) (chord progression on screen above). "Strawberry Fields" then
up to G7, "nothing is real..." and then down to the D# and then back up to G7, so we are
on D# again and then it jumps to Bb. That kind of finishes it off. (Plays chord progression
again) Again, D# is D, F, Bb. Accompany it with your left hand down here. Then we go
back to the top like the beginning. Then it just jumps into a new part which is actually
like the same chords but they are tossed around in different ways. I'm not remembering the
lyrics to it, but its like "no one else is in my tree..." Then we go to Gm (hums) (Plays
song) So with that whole part, the progression is this, maybe you want to write this down.
Maybe I can put it on the screen, I don't know, maybe I'll find out when I'm editing
this. After you do this part for the 2nd time, then we have Gm to F. Gm is G, Bb, D. Then
F: F, A, C. Then play our D# which is G, Bb, D#. Then we go back up to F, and then to Bb:
D, F, Bb. Sorry I'm losing lights here. Then we go back to the D# chord. "It doesn't matter
much to me." So, D#, F, and then back to D# "to me..." and then Bb. Here is the ending
because he's going to be like, "Strawberry Fields Forever." So its going to be like:
(Plays song). Normally, earlier in the song it would be like (Plays song) "Strawberry
Fields Forever" and then it would go up to (Plays song). We're not going to do that,
we are going to do this instead. (Plays song) "Strawberry Fields Forever... (Repeats)" The
song kind of continues at the end there, but you can finish on that note. You could keep
playing along with the song. It's pretty much the same chords. You can hear how it goes.
On that part, instead of just finishing after: (Plays song), what we do next is go back to
--- remember this is the D# chord. Then we go to: (Plays song) Bb chord. Then it bridges
back into playing it again. To bridge it we use this Gm. Then we go back into D#. So its,
D#, D#, Bb, Gm (repeats). Then the third part is not that. It's going to be "strawberry,"
then go to F "Fields," and then back to D# "Forever..." Then Bb. Let's see if I can do
that just one more time. (Plays song) I just wanted to add on this extra little bass line
here that you probably have heard in the song. I'm pretty sure this is in the other version.
It's not in the version that I have, but basically where you are finishing off this line here
where it's like: (Plays song). Then here, it goes "Let me take you down." You hear that?
(bass line) You could throw that in and that would be great. Really you are just playing
the D#maj, and then jump down to Bbmaj. You will play that when playing D#. "Let me take
you down, cause I'm going ... " etc. Try to put that in there too! I hope you've enjoyed
the video. I hope it was useful and if you have any requests, please let me know below
in the comments (that would be that way) and if you have any comments in general about
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it and I will see you soon, bye bye.