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well after popular demand I think I'm gonna be forced to finally teach you a tune
called lean on me
it's funny I got so many requests for for doing this tune on the show
ever since I was on Good Morning America and taught Robin Roberts how to play this in a
couple of days
the reality is it's an extremely simple tune to play on piano
so I'm just gonna blindly sit here and give it away to you
It won't take more than two or three minutes. come on and sit next to me on a
piano bench here let's get started
now this tune you will probably remember it goes (Scott plays)
It is an old Bill Withers tune
the reality is, if you play it in the key of C
it is all-white notes and you can play the entire thing with the same hand position
so
here's where you start it
okay but your fingers like this CGC
and then your right hand fill out that C chord with the EGC
so there you are you're really just playing a real solid C major chord there
now pretend your hands all just got screwed together and
cast in concrete nothing can move and just are moving up the white notes.
Here you go
I'm not gonna move anything in relative position to another
Right, back down
just follow the melody line
OOPs
The melody is on this top note here
Scott plays ... now here's the only time you have to jump but it's still all maintains the
same position
all right, now in the bridge
It's the part that goes
That's the melody line of the tune. There are a couple of ways you can accomplish that
What happens in the record
is its kinda it's kind of a free no chord section where I think they are clapping and
and
and you hear
people clapping in the background you can hear this
this kind of steady thing but there's no chords in it and so here's the way you can
accomplish that pretty simply
is to just play octave C's with your left hand while you're playing the
melody line. So you go ...
now here yet to go to G or
then right back to the beginning
here's that jump again
okay I told you it was a simple one:
but hey, you don't have to give away all your secrets away to people that you are playing for
It's a fun thing just be able to get up right now as soon as we are done here
and run over to your piano or keyboard to give that a try
anything I can possibly do to get you to sit down for a few more minutes
to have a little bit more fun your piano is certainly worthwhile
enjoy yourself this section
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