Chords for How to play Piano Man by Billy Joel

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C

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G

D

B

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Hey guys, how you doing?
This is Jimbo man 11
Let me start up a couple piano videos for you guys
I know you guys like you know like to see these videos, and I know there's not too many of
this song in particular
It's called piano man by Billy Joel now.
I'm gonna teach you guys how to do the intro to it.
It's a
fun song I'm gonna play through it once and
So you guys get the basic idea of it?
so
Here's the beginning of piano man.
[Fm] [F] [Fm] [G]
That is the first thing I'm gonna teach you guys how to do
It's uh [Dm] mainly you just got to focus on your left hand first
Your first chord is gonna be a D minor 7 so which is D F [F] A C
[Dm] The second chord you're just [F] moving your pointer finger and your thumb
To a G sharp and a B
[Ab] So it just stays [Dm] the same
[F] You know it's good
Now your right [A] hand
So you go?
[Dm] Sorry, sorry about that
[Abm] You start up here with a [Am] flat
[Em]
Then you go G
[D] chromatically go down
[C]
[D] now the way Billy Joel plays it is
When he goes here
[G]
He usually when he [Ab] starts from this
[B] He does it three [C] times.
I prefer two times because it sounds better, but he goes
[Cm]
[G] [Eb] So you go B B [B] flat B C?
[Ab] and your next
three notes are G [E] G sharp a
[G]
G [Em] D D sharp and E to G so [Gb] it should sound like
[F]
[B] [G] Now the way I like to play the next part you guys all know the piece apart
Where you hear the harmonica come in now if you want to play it on the piano.
[A] It's really not that hard
It's I just start on the G
I'll play it for you guys
Now I'm gonna play the the bottom notes a little bit easier
Since you know I have a little bit trouble with it, [C] so I can't go
[Em] I'm just gonna do it the way.
I think I want to do it to my version of it.
Hope you guys like it
[C]
[Db] [Am]
[E] [D] [G] [C]
[B] [G] [F]
[Fm] Now that's [C] really easy
You're just going downwards on the bass part which God
[B] [A] So you know just go down until you know you got to shoot back to G [C] and you start over again
you know
[B] [A] [G] [F] Ah
[E] [D] [G] Gee
[C] [B]
[G] [E]
[D] [C] Now it's
Here it just starts on G
[C] [D]
[C]
But not don't use that see gonna play one more time
[E]
[Bb]
[Cm]
So now the next [N] part as you know it's the coolest part you all that guy you guys all know it
I'll play it right now.
Hope you guys like that
[C]
[F]
[C]
Now actually it's pretty simple you're just playing the bottom notes are
[G] [F] [G]
[C] [G] [E] So [C] you just you're staying on the C.
You go down by [Am] the a a
[C] [A]
[Am] [C]
Here you do when you're on your right hand
[E]
My [C] bad, [Dm]
[C] it's pretty simple.
That's not how you play it, but you know
the way you go up, it's
C e G C
mom
[F] [C]
[F]
[C] [D] [C]
[N] now it's fairly simple when you put it together cuz um
Actually, let me see where to put this
I'm trying to figure out where I can put this so you guys can actually see it
[C] You
[F]
[C]
[F] [C]
[F] [C]
[F]
Always like you know you're always gonna be hitting C's in [N] this because it's everybody thinks it's so hard, but you really it's so simple and
I'm just gonna play it through the full through you for once and I
Want you guys to get the basic idea of it.
I hope you like it.
I hope you subscribe to my videos
Message me for new new songs that you would like to learn and have a great day
[Dm] [F]
[G]
[C] [G] [F]
[D] [C]
[B] [Am] [F]
[Dm] [C]
[F]
[C] You
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Hey guys, how you doing?
This is Jimbo man 11 _
Let me start up a couple piano videos for you guys
I know you guys like you know like to see these videos, and I know there's not too many of
this song in particular
It's called piano man by Billy Joel _ now.
I'm gonna teach you guys how to do the intro to it.
It's a
fun song I'm gonna play through it once and
_ So you guys get the basic idea of it?
_ so
Here's the beginning of piano man.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
That is the first thing I'm gonna teach you guys how to do
It's uh [Dm] mainly you just got to focus on your left hand first
Your first chord is gonna be a D minor 7 so which is D F [F] A C
[Dm] _ _ _ The second chord you're just [F] moving your pointer finger and your thumb
_ To a G sharp and a B
[Ab] So it just stays [Dm] the same _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ You know it's good
Now your right [A] hand
So you go?
[Dm] Sorry, sorry about that
_ [Abm] You start up here with a [Am] flat
_ _ _ _ [Em]
Then you go G
[D] chromatically go down
_ [C] _ _
_ [D] now the way Billy Joel plays it is
When he goes here
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
He usually when he [Ab] starts from this
_ [B] He does it three [C] times.
I prefer two times because it sounds better, but he goes
_ [Cm] _ _
[G] _ _ [Eb] _ So you go B B [B] flat B C?
_ [Ab] and your next _
three notes are G [E] G sharp a
_ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ G [Em] D D sharp and E to G so [Gb] it should sound like
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ Now the way I like to play the next part you guys all know the piece apart
Where you hear the harmonica come in now if you want to play it on the piano.
[A] It's really not that hard
It's I just start on the G
I'll play it for you guys _
Now I'm gonna play the the bottom notes a little bit easier _
Since you know I have a little bit trouble with it, [C] so I can't go _
[Em] _ _ I'm just gonna do it the way.
I think I want to do it to my version of it.
Hope you guys like it
[C] _ _
[Db] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
[B] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ Now that's [C] really easy
You're just going downwards on the bass part which God _
[B] _ _ [A] _ So you know just go down until you know you got to shoot back to G [C] and you start over again
_ you know
[B] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] Ah
[E] _ [D] _ [G] Gee
_ [C] _ _ [B] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ Now it's
Here it just starts on G _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
But not don't use that see gonna _ _ _ _ play one more time
_ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ So now the next [N] part as you know it's the coolest part you all that guy you guys all know it
I'll play it right now.
Hope you guys like that
_ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Now actually it's pretty simple you're just playing the bottom notes are _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [E] So [C] you just you're staying on the C.
You go down by [Am] the a a
[C] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
Here you do when you're on your right hand _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E]
My [C] bad, _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ it's pretty simple.
That's not how you play it, but you know
the way you go up, it's
C e G C
_ mom
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [N] now it's fairly simple when you put it together cuz um
_ _ _ Actually, let me see where to put this
_ I'm trying to figure out where I can put this so you guys can actually see it _
_ [C] You
_ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Always like you know you're always gonna be hitting C's in [N] this because it's everybody thinks it's so hard, but you really it's so simple and
_ I'm just gonna play it through the full through you for once and I
Want you guys to get the basic idea of it.
I hope you like it.
I hope you subscribe to my videos _ _
Message me for new new songs that you would like to learn _ and have a great day _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[B] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ You _