IMAGINE chords and lyrics chart! echocitymusic.activehosted.com/f/199 ⚠ IMPORTANT NOTE ⚠ The high D note that creates the Cadd9 is controversial. It is possible that it wasn't played and is a resonant overtone created by that particular piano. Others have pointed out it's likely on a 2nd overdubbed piano, and that he didn't play that note in other solo performances. I personally hear it very strongly in the recording and it sounds “right” to me, but to others, it will sound better without (you can play a middle C instead). Choose whichever you prefer! SUPPORT NATE'S CHANNEL 5-Level Piano Course: www.pianochordbreakthroughs.com/ Give Nate a Tip: www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=YWK4H7C57P2VE
Woke up to my first earthquake Sunday night. I'd been dreaming I was running through Jerusalem and when I awoke to find my bed shaking--and I wondered if I was going nuts--I heard "Imagine" in some corner of my mind. And now here I am, almost finished learning to play and sing this song at a moment when it truly feels like a prayer. So happy I found your channel, I love the way you teach.
Nate,congrats. This is the best online tutorial I could find. Crystal clear, showing notes and chords,excellent songs masterfully taught. Keep up the great work !!!
I just got a keyboard, gonna slam my head against this until I learn it. Glad I stayed for the end, that was beautiful. I like to think that John would be proud. Subbed.
Nate, you have brought my playing on immeasurably. I remember listening to the album at school for hours on end over 50 years ago. This is one of my favourite songs, and now to be able to play it, and perform at open mic in a few weeks is just fantastic. I cannot thank you enough for your absolutely brilliant teaching videos. Take care, and I await more, although I have plenty of your previous ones to go on with.
Thanks, Nate. Thanks to you, now I can play "Imagine" of John Lennon! It is one of my favorite songs, and I really wanted to learn it. This is the first song that I have learned, and it makes me feel good. Now my family will be proud of me, and I am not anymore feeling sad about my illness... I will use the time that I have now, to learn more songs and become a good player of piano! ❤❤🎉🎉
Absolutely THE tutorial to learn this song with, and I've seen a few. So "lennonesque" and clearly explained without extraneous sidetracking, backtracking, or skipping!
My friend, I'm 63 years old and have played guitar, mandolin and uke for years ( not that great!) but, despite my sons and wife playing piano, I've never even really tried. They are all at a music festival this weekend and I'm dog-sitting at home, so I thought- why not? Found your video, and here I am playing those famous opening bars! Thank you!!!
Thank you nate i learned to play the entire imagine song by john lennon and you explain and teach very well love this tutorial, could you please do Bohemian Rhapsody next?
I absolutely applaud all your very hard work.. you help so many people.. you are a gift from the gods… credit to your mum and dad.. keep up the fantastic work
Hi Nate, thank you for teaching this beautiful song just a John Lennon played it. It is easy for me to follow. I am just learning to play the piano and I'm super excited to learn this song. ❤
Thank you for this amazing tutorial, along with all the rest. There is something really moving these are the exact notes that John Lennon once played, and to find my own voice and style singing it within that. Magical. Thanks so much! 🥰
I've checked out a few tutorials on this song. This is the best one I've found so far. I like that you're going over the fingering. Piano will be my 5th instrument. (I already pay guitar, mandolin, bass and harmonica.) Regarding your vocal technique, when you go into head voice, (a.k.a. Falsetto), tilt your head down to open your throat. You have 2 sets of vocal chords, an upper set and a lower set. In head voice, you are using the upper set of vocal chords and you need to lower your chin to open the throat. It's counterintuitive, but that's how it works.
Thanks for the kind words! And I appreciate the vocal feedback, I am definitely trying to improve in that regard - I actually have a voice lesson scheduled for tomorrow. Cheers!
Thank you so much Nate. I am a beginner and I love the way you teach piano. For me it’s easier to learn a lesson with the sheet music rather than the chords on top of the words. Keep up the good works 👍🎶
So well done, Nate! And your cover of the entire song at the end is amazing :) Thanks for all your hard work and what you GIVE us for free. I plan to enroll in your course after my busy tax filing season. See ya soon.
This is an excellent video! Thanks so much. Plus, I like the way you play the song all the way through at the end. I find it a great learning tool as I try to play along with exactly what you are playing, keeping time etc.
Day two if learning piano at age 60. Saw a video showing the simple version with one base note played at the same time. I'm struggling with some muscle memory and hand placement. I love this song and prefer playing the same way recorded and this one is a good bit above but I will get it. I have played guitar for years and understand about chord prog, triads, scales circle of fifths and some of it has already helped. New subscriber and I appreciate this video and what you do.
Awesome! That's great that you are a guitar player, I definitely find that this chord-based approach to piano comes naturally to people who started on guitar. Thanks for the kind words!
Thank you so much Nate! I found this instructional video really effective and comprehensible and within 3 hours had learnt the song complete because of your video, so easy to follow. Buy yourself a coffee and play your favorite song because you have earnt it :). I like your singing also. Keep up the great work!!
Thank you so much! I tried other tutorials and no one got it exactly like this. Amazing to be able to play it i hope in a few days, or less if possible 😃
@@PianowithNate Your answer ? I will give you mine : To be given the rarest gift that takes you into a world few ever enter, where you hear things few ever hear ... This is my answer. What is your answer ? Please may I add, I am so grateful you made this video. I do not like approximations of the work of great artists, I like the real thing. All the very best Nate, from Australia.
Another great tune in the bag. Thanks Nate for the super logical teaching method. Next challenge, could you do a tutorial for Elton's Rocket man please?
Thanks so much Nate! I learned this from another tutorial about a year ago and haven't played it much since. I'm going to adopt your version and re-learn. Pretty sure it's much better! -Joni
Awesome, Nate! You're the best. John Lennon was the best, but now you're it. Thank you! Request to the piano man: Please, teach us how to play Billy Joel's "Piano Man"! Please, please, please! 🎹🎶🙏
Hahaha aww thanks Bjorn! Piano Man is a good idea, I've considered it in the past. I think i'd just have to simplify some parts so it's not too hard for the majority of my audience
Thank you Nate! What a great tutorial you teach! Plus...your voice is pretty good also! You make it look easy and enticing for beginners want to learn...
Hello. Nate. Maybe you would consider doing "Knocking on Heavens door." I know it is a relatively simple song, but it would be nice if you were to make it accessible. I can't find a good version of it online that really explain the timing, the rhythm, or a melody line to go with it. Thanks for all the great songs you have done so far.
I've just started relearning piano after several decades of not playing, as my young daughters have started lessons. Your channel is really brilliant... thank you for all your dedication and excellent teaching approach ❤ Do you have the sheet music for this? I find reading notes easier than memorizing chords. 😊
This is awesome to hear! I dont have sheet music for it, as I put it together by ear. That said, my version is very accurate to what is played on the original recording, so if you search for accompaniment sheet music for that song, I bet you'll find something pretty similar!
Thanks Nate 🤗I thought I played this well, now enhanced my performance and had comments on how it sounds better. Just a thought but Live an let die would be good thanks
I learned let it be and Fourth of July cause of this channel, much love. I’m kinda interested in this Beatles song called “ For No One” . Might be interesting to learn that song
Thank you one of the better tutorials I have watch - teach the left and right hand separately then together is perfect - I would love it if you taught Elton Johns Sorry Seems the Hardest Word
Thanks so much, Nate. The best piano tutor so far. I hope you could teach the male piano version (lower key) of 'Easy on Me' of Adele by Boyce Ave. Kudos!
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IMAGINE chords and lyrics chart! echocitymusic.activehosted.com/f/199
⚠ IMPORTANT NOTE ⚠ The high D note that creates the Cadd9 is controversial. It is possible that it wasn't played and is a resonant overtone created by that particular piano. Others have pointed out it's likely on a 2nd overdubbed piano, and that he didn't play that note in other solo performances. I personally hear it very strongly in the recording and it sounds “right” to me, but to others, it will sound better without (you can play a middle C instead). Choose whichever you prefer!
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Woke up to my first earthquake Sunday night. I'd been dreaming I was running through Jerusalem and when I awoke to find my bed shaking--and I wondered if I was going nuts--I heard "Imagine" in some corner of my mind. And now here I am, almost finished learning to play and sing this song at a moment when it truly feels like a prayer. So happy I found your channel, I love the way you teach.
❤️
he is the BEST ! teacher !😁
John believed song can save the world. I don't know about entire world, but interior one I guess it can.
John Lennon was the prayer. You teach me something of this song
Never get tired of seeing/hearing this lesson.
Why??
Ya...even his talking too fast❤😂
Nate,congrats. This is the best online tutorial I could find. Crystal clear, showing notes and chords,excellent songs masterfully taught. Keep up the great work !!!
Wow, thanks!
@@PianowithNate ditto! some are ok. some are too advanced. TYSM
There is no word I can’t find how much I appreciate your lecturing!❤
Wow, thank you!
The best Imagine lesson on the planet! ❤ and thanx with all my heart!
I just got a keyboard, gonna slam my head against this until I learn it. Glad I stayed for the end, that was beautiful. I like to think that John would be proud. Subbed.
You got this! And thanks so much for the kind words
Me (M67) have been trying to play this since when it came out. Nothing I ever found or bought worked. Your stuff is magic.
I'm so glad to hear it!
@@PianowithNate Thanks for the 👍for me (M67). How about "You" from Ten Sharp. The chords are basic, the fingering repetitive. Easy.
Nate, you have brought my playing on immeasurably. I remember listening to the album at school for hours on end over 50 years ago. This is one of my favourite songs, and now to be able to play it, and perform at open mic in a few weeks is just fantastic. I cannot thank you enough for your absolutely brilliant teaching videos. Take care, and I await more, although I have plenty of your previous ones to go on with.
This is so awesome to hear!! Let me know how the open mic goes!
Wonderful teaching. Sounds exactly like the original.
Thanks, Nate.
Thanks to you, now I can play "Imagine" of John Lennon!
It is one of my favorite songs, and I really wanted to learn it.
This is the first song that I have learned, and it makes me feel good.
Now my family will be proud of me, and I am not anymore feeling sad about my illness... I will use the time that I have now, to learn more songs and become a good player of piano! ❤❤🎉🎉
Amazing, you are an inspiration!! Keep it up! 🙏🙏🙏
Absolutely THE tutorial to learn this song with, and I've seen a few. So "lennonesque" and clearly explained without extraneous sidetracking, backtracking, or skipping!
Thanks for the kind words!!
Gracias amigo, aprenderé este tema. Fortalece tu voz. Felicidades desde Chile
My friend, I'm 63 years old and have played guitar, mandolin and uke for years ( not that great!) but, despite my sons and wife playing piano, I've never even really tried. They are all at a music festival this weekend and I'm dog-sitting at home, so I thought- why not? Found your video, and here I am playing those famous opening bars! Thank you!!!
Awesome!! Enjoy :)
Lovely, I must try hard to learn. Thank you so much for your tutorial.
Good luck and have fun!
I NEEDED the EXACTLY way in which John plays it for a tribute! Ty❤
Cheers!
@@PianowithNate ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you nate i learned to play the entire imagine song by john lennon and you explain and teach very well love this tutorial, could you please do Bohemian Rhapsody next?
I absolutely applaud all your very hard work.. you help so many people.. you are a gift from the gods… credit to your mum and dad.. keep up the fantastic work
Thanks for the kind words! Cheers!
Thank you for such a fine tutorial!
Hi Nate, thank you for teaching this beautiful song just a John Lennon played it. It is easy for me to follow. I am just learning to play the piano and I'm super excited to learn this song. ❤
So glad to hear it - enjoy!
This is the best instruction I have found for this song. Think I got it. Thanks!
🙏🙏🙏
Best tutorial I could find for this song. Thanks!
I’m so glad!!
Thank you for this amazing tutorial, along with all the rest. There is something really moving these are the exact notes that John Lennon once played, and to find my own voice and style singing it within that. Magical. Thanks so much! 🥰
Totally! Enjoy 💜
Best video teaching how to play IMAGINE
Glad you think so!!
I find your tutorial being the immaculate of all, at least for ‘Imagine’. Thank you Nate❤🎹🎼
My pleasure!
Awesome tutorial and dude you sound Mr. Lennon. You have a new sub here 👏🏽
Thanks so much!
Your teaching for beginners is great! And singing and the rhythm helps as well. thanks
Glad you think so!
Agreed. Best online tutorial for that wonderful song!
Wow, thanks!
I've checked out a few tutorials on this song. This is the best one I've found so far. I like that you're going over the fingering. Piano will be my 5th instrument. (I already pay guitar, mandolin, bass and harmonica.) Regarding your vocal technique, when you go into head voice, (a.k.a. Falsetto), tilt your head down to open your throat. You have 2 sets of vocal chords, an upper set and a lower set. In head voice, you are using the upper set of vocal chords and you need to lower your chin to open the throat. It's counterintuitive, but that's how it works.
Thanks for the kind words! And I appreciate the vocal feedback, I am definitely trying to improve in that regard - I actually have a voice lesson scheduled for tomorrow. Cheers!
Thanks for the lesson. I love this song and it sounds just like the song.
Cheers!
Wonderful, Nate. I'm excited for this one.
Awesome tutorial, Nate! A similar tutorial on Jealous Guy would be super cool...
Agreed!
Nate your tutorial of Imagine was great. Your playing and singing at the end was awesome. Thanks.
Thanks so much!
Thank you so much Nate. I am a beginner and I love the way you teach piano. For me it’s easier to learn a lesson with the sheet music rather than the chords on top of the words. Keep up the good works 👍🎶
If you've already got the sheet music skill, that makes sense! Cheers!
You are a true treasure and a great teacher. Should have 1 million subscribers
Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
So well done, Nate! And your cover of the entire song at the end is amazing :) Thanks for all your hard work and what you GIVE us for free. I plan to enroll in your course after my busy tax filing season. See ya soon.
Thanks for the kind words Michael!!
thank you again. excellent brother.
You are a legend!! Thanks so much for the tutorial...and the reverb vocals at the end was on point!!
Thanks so much!
great job! sound just like mr lennon! thanks for the tutorial, it's a better way than the way i was learning it. very clear and concise.
Thanks so much!
This is an excellent video! Thanks so much. Plus, I like the way you play the song all the way through at the end. I find it a great learning tool as I try to play along with exactly what you are playing, keeping time etc.
This is awesome to hear, Pete! Cheers :)
Thank you so much for your very detailed and dedicated instructions.
You are so welcome!
I love it. Going to follow along!
Thank you Nate !!! Love it ! Greatings from Brazil !
Cheers!
Thank you so much for putting up such a great tutorial. I always dream of playing accompaniment piano. Thank you again.
Please keep making videos like this, you've got great teaching skills. Love this. 👏👏👏
Thank you so much, I will!
Thanks for the advice on this topic I will definitely look into this and try to make a more general rule about it ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great tutorials Nate! You're doing a great job showing the easy way to learn the piano
Glad to hear it!!!
brill..highly recommend this video ..cheery
i learned the song and i can play it with your tutorial.. really thanks!
Great!
Nate you’re very talented and great at teaching!🎉
Thank you so much!
Day two if learning piano at age 60. Saw a video showing the simple version with one base note played at the same time. I'm struggling with some muscle memory and hand placement. I love this song and prefer playing the same way recorded and this one is a good bit above but I will get it. I have played guitar for years and understand about chord prog, triads, scales circle of fifths and some of it has already helped. New subscriber and I appreciate this video and what you do.
Awesome! That's great that you are a guitar player, I definitely find that this chord-based approach to piano comes naturally to people who started on guitar. Thanks for the kind words!
Thanks for the tutorial, it's very usefull to train
Man I simply love you ! Damn right on ! Appreciate your efforts here !!!
Cheers!
Thank you so much Nate! I found this instructional video really effective and comprehensible and within 3 hours had learnt the song complete because of your video, so easy to follow. Buy yourself a coffee and play your favorite song because you have earnt it :). I like your singing also. Keep up the great work!!
Thank you so much Ashleigh! I really appreciate it
Thank you so much! I tried other tutorials and no one got it exactly like this. Amazing to be able to play it i hope in a few days, or less if possible 😃
So great to hear this! Cheers!
So much detail..You certainly do rock Nate..maybe one day do a tutorial on how you break a song down. Happy Christmas man
Thanks Brian!
How is it possible to make something so astoundingly beautiful with only a few elementary chords ??? It isn't. It simply isn't. I must be dreaming.
Such a good question...
@@PianowithNate Your answer ? I will give you mine : To be given the rarest gift that takes you into a world few ever enter, where you hear things few ever hear ... This is my answer. What is your answer ?
Please may I add, I am so grateful you made this video. I do not like approximations of the work of great artists, I like the real thing. All the very best Nate, from Australia.
Really great tutorial👌Thank you very much! 🙏
You're very welcome!
I love your online tutorial! I would love to take your piano song’s teaching class! Please let me know if you have one,Nate!
Hi thank you! Check out www.pianowithnate.com/piano-chord-breakthroughs
Another great tune in the bag. Thanks Nate for the super logical teaching method. Next challenge, could you do a tutorial for Elton's Rocket man please?
Awesome Nate ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks so much Nate! I learned this from another tutorial about a year ago and haven't played it much since. I'm going to adopt your version and re-learn. Pretty sure it's much better! -Joni
Have fun!
Love your tutorial so much fun
So glad!
Very, very cool and precise!
Thank you! Cheers!
Awesome, Nate! You're the best.
John Lennon was the best, but now you're it.
Thank you!
Request to the piano man:
Please, teach us how to play Billy Joel's "Piano Man"!
Please, please, please! 🎹🎶🙏
Hahaha aww thanks Bjorn!
Piano Man is a good idea, I've considered it in the past. I think i'd just have to simplify some parts so it's not too hard for the majority of my audience
Great tutorial. Thanks
Cheers!
love it so much , thank you
Heyyy Nate!!! And there it is!!! Looking forward to watching this video tutorial!! 😁👍
Hey hey! Enjoy
Thank you Nate.
My pleasure!
well done Nate, as usual! I like your voice by way!
Thanks so much!
Great teaching Nate, I’m almost there :)
You got this!
Thanks so much for this lesson. I have struggled with other tutorials for this great song, but finally got it with yours.
Great to hear!
Love your tutorials Nate can’t wait to see this one
Appreciate it!
You deserve it!
Thank you Nate! What a great tutorial you teach! Plus...your voice is pretty good also! You make it look easy and enticing for beginners want to learn...
Thanks so much!!
onhh wow thats rite on ive been doin it wrong,,thankx you got a great ear,,im just lazy but that lennon he 's a cheeky one great job
A cheeky one indeed! Glad my video helped
Nate, thanks for helping me clean up this tune. Side note, there is a second piano from a session man playing along.
Glad to hear it! And yes, I do realize that now and feel a little silly that I didn't at the time of making this video
Thanks Nate. I get inspired! How bout Careless Whisper or Color My World.
Careless whisper would be incredible. Great song
Thank you for all content
My pleasure !
Thank you very much.
You're so welcome!
Hello. Nate. Maybe you would consider doing "Knocking on Heavens door." I know it is a relatively simple song, but it would be nice if you were to make it accessible. I can't find a good version of it online that really explain the timing, the rhythm, or a melody line to go with it. Thanks for all the great songs you have done so far.
Good thought! I do have it on my list and your comment is a good reminder...it is indeed super simple and I need to think of a cool angle for it...
Thanks!
Thank YOU!
Thannks a lot Nate 🙏
I've just started relearning piano after several decades of not playing, as my young daughters have started lessons. Your channel is really brilliant... thank you for all your dedication and excellent teaching approach ❤
Do you have the sheet music for this? I find reading notes easier than memorizing chords. 😊
This is awesome to hear! I dont have sheet music for it, as I put it together by ear. That said, my version is very accurate to what is played on the original recording, so if you search for accompaniment sheet music for that song, I bet you'll find something pretty similar!
The best I’ve found yet
🙏
Thank you Nate for all the tutorial songs. May i request 2 tutorial songs from America: I Need You & All My Life.
Thanks and God bless.😘
I'll check them out!
Cпасибо!!! Очень полезный урок и познавательно всё. Супер ❤❤❤❤Браво🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks Nate 🤗I thought I played this well, now enhanced my performance and had comments on how it sounds better. Just a thought but Live an let die would be good thanks
Hey that's really awesome to hear! Glad to have helped. Also great suggestion, I'll throw it on my list
Thank you.
Nice play with the vocals at the end...
Thanks!!
I learned let it be and Fourth of July cause of this channel, much love. I’m kinda interested in this Beatles song called “ For No One” . Might be interesting to learn that song
Thats awesome to hear! And hmm, that's a really good suggestion. I used to play that on piano back in the day. Putting it on my list!
thanks, tomorrow ill play this for our school choir ;)
Have fun!! Let me know how it goes
@@PianowithNate it went great, thanks!
I truly want to experience your tutorial for lady Madonna 😅any chances ?
Possibly! I'll add it to my long list of Beatles tutorials to do :)
And please do remember my John Lennon
Very nice nate
Thanks!
Thank you one of the better tutorials I have watch - teach the left and right hand separately then together is perfect - I would love it if you taught Elton Johns Sorry Seems the Hardest Word
Thanks so much for the kind words! Glad you like my approach. That's a cool suggestion as well
Well done! And great cover!
Thanks!
Muito bom!
O som mais próximo de Imagine.
Vou tentar!
Parabéns!😍
Thanks so much, Nate. The best piano tutor so far. I hope you could teach the male piano version (lower key) of 'Easy on Me' of Adele by Boyce Ave. Kudos!
Perfection
This is great, thank you. I don’t hear that high D in the original though.
Feel free to leave it out! It's quite subtle on the recording
Thankyou so much for the free chords ❤ can u please do gospel songs "Count your blessings"
How many times John does the cadd9 on the beginning of every verse? Fab video❤❤❤
On the studio recording, I hear it on every C chord in the verses, with the exception of the VERY first C in the song
@@PianowithNate so on every C? Not only at the beginning of every verse?