Nate you are an awesome teacher. Your tutorial here will have anybody playing the piano in weeks rather than years. I had piano lessons for 2 yrs as a teen and could only play silly songs I never wanted to learn and nobody wanted to hear : )
Glad you're coming back to it now! That's the problem with traditional lessons...people play boring elementary music that's not very inspiring. Cheers!
⚠ To clarify! Everything I describe in this video can be done for free and without a subscription. Just be sure you're accessing the site on desktop rather than mobile (where they funnel you to the app/subscription). You can't access the "pro" and "official" charts, but there are usually plenty of other options. I'm sure there are some nice perks of a paid subscription, but I have never had one personally, and I have no affiliation with ultimate guitar. 🔷 Learn with a chord-based approach! Nate's 5-Level Piano Course: www.pianochordbreakthroughs.com/ 🟡 Give Nate a Tip: www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=YWK4H7C57P2VE
How have I never realized they had a piano option? I definitely submitted a few tabs to UG back in the early 2000s. Been using that site forever. It’s a classic. On a side note, bit of a coincidence that you chose Knocking on Heavens Door as your example. GnR did their famous cover of that song and UG was started because the guy who created it couldn’t find a GnR tab online 😂
@@PianowithNate Good, I’m not the only one! Yeah, it’s funny that I learn this now because I’ll probably never need to use it at this point lol. Building chords is pretty much a wrap for me. One of the things I love about piano is it’s so much more intuitive when it comes to theory. It’s so much easier to look at something like a m7b5 and just build it. Certain things get a little lost in the sauce with guitar. And you notice things more on piano. Like, on guitar, I knew I could substitute a vii° for a V7, but it wasn’t until I learned piano that I realized why it works so well. A vii° is just a rootless V7. Duh… why didn’t I notice that on guitar? I knew the notes. I should’ve noticed it, but I didn’t.
Thanks so much for this Nate! I always use ultimate guitar in piano setting to try and learn songs on my own, but I had NO IDEA there was the transpose feature! I always wondered why some of them just didn't sound right when I tried them. Can't wait to use this feature! Also one suggestion, I've downloaded and printed all the chords and lyric sheets from your lessons and one thing I wish they had is the chord shapes used in the songs (like the header on ultimate guitar), especially when they are inversions!!! Thanks as always for the amazing content you put out!
Hey Ashley! Glad this video gave you some useful tips. Thanks for the feedback on the chord charts too...I'll mull it over. I think I could certainly do it for the simpler songs. My worry is that for more complicated songs, especially those that do different inversions of the same chord in different sections, it would be a big undertaking that would make it so I'd have to slow down my pace of releasing videos.
Hey Nate I love ur videos! And ur tutorials have helped me a lot, I would love if u could make one for the song "il bambino che contava le stelle" from Ultimo! Sending love from CR 🇨🇷!! :D
Awesome video, Nate! I've fallen out of practice for a bit due to some health stuff but I'm hoping to get back to regular practice soon. Your videos and lessons are my number one source of learning and ultimate guitar is my second. I'm still navigating how to make chord charts sound right. I usually get stalled at rhythm and timing and all that. I can replicate the chords just fine and navigate inversions but figuring out when to play, especially on songs that are originally guitar that I want to sound more like guitar. I've still got highwayman by the white buffalo on my wishlist for a tutorial! And I'll throw the ballad of Curtis Loew on there as well just cos I'm greedy. Also wondering if you're planning on doing any Christmas content for December? If so, looking forward to it. My initial goal when I first got my piano was to be able to play a couple Christmas songs within my first year of learning. Thanks again for all your effort and content, Nate! You're so helpful and inspiring to so many. Happy holidays and can't wait to see what's next!
Yes ultimate guitar is good that’s where I learned all my chords on guitar the only thing is some songs like the maker of the chord chart took it off that’s kinda annoying and u have to subscribe to use features which is stupid but you can pretty much learn any country and pop song on guitar
It does have some features that you need to subscribe for, but to be clear I've never subscribed and everything I demonstrate in this video can be done for free and without a subscription
@@PianowithNate so I looked at your website and your form Oregon? I live in Oregon and I am starting piano on Christmas literally I already know my parents got me a piano for Christmas cuz they asked me what kind I wanted. Do you have any like lessons on how to get started on piano and what’s the first thing for me to learn? Also how do I memorize which key is which letter?
Ultimate Guitar is for the most part free except for the Original Versions, which aren’t submitted by users. Other than that you get ads and no autoscroll feature without the subscription. You can still print it or scroll while playing. I’ve been using ultimate guitar for quite sometime and I’m very happy. I even bought the subscription for 25€ annually (only during sales) and I didn’t regret it.
@@Percy500 just looked it up and the only free I see is for a week and then it’s a subscription. Maybe you have an old subscription that’s now been changed, also it’s considerably more than what you paid. Look it up now 🤷♂️👍🎶🕺🏴
@@barryhunt8527 I just logged out of the app and tried it in the private browser tab. You can use the features I described without logging in and without having a free trial. I agree that the price for the subscription is higher than I stated, but if you sign up for the email list and wait for an offer, for example on Black Friday or Christmas or something like that, you can still get a lower price. For example the offer for €25 was just sent to me a week ago.
Dude how broke are you if you think Ultimate Guitar cost too much? I think it's dirt cheap and has so much value for any musician. If you can"t afford UG do you even have a piano or keyboard?
I'm reluctant to subscribe to Ultimate Guitar. Considering that most of the music is donated, I think they have a nerve to ask for a subscription. There are other websites offering a similar service for free.
Ultimate Guitar is for the most part free except for the Original Versions, which aren’t submitted by users. Other than that you get ads and no autoscroll feature without the subscription. You can still print it or scroll while playing. I’ve been using ultimate guitar for quite sometime and I’m very happy.
Make sure you're using it on desktop! If you search within the site you do have to avoid the "pro" and "official" versions of tabs, but there are plenty of free ones for every song. I should have gone into that in more detail in the video
Sometimes users include the rhythm in the beginning of the tab for guitar players or you could listen to it and try to hear the rhythm. I personally just play the chords according to the sheet and notice, while singing, what chords have to be repeated or are played for example for an eight. Try to start with a song you know in order to have a feeling, while playing, how the song should sound and start experimenting there.
This can definitely be a challenge. One thing I will say is you will get better at this over time. I recommend taking some time to listen to the recording and try tapping your foot along to count the rhythms. Using some sheet music as well just as a reference just for the measure structure is a great tool right now as you keep developing your ear. Cheers!
Thank you very much. I am a beginner and use this app, but I never really understood how to use it properly. I saw all the chords there and I was like “ok, how can I use them? How can I use both hands?”. Now I know, from a very fast and straightforward video. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
This is so helpful Nate. Thank you!! I am trying to learn Heart of Life by John Mayer using the chord chart from ultimate guitar. I'm struggling on how to fill it in and "embellish" it the way you do. Maybe you can do a tutorial in the future??
So I just came from your live streaming and this tutorial was in my you tube feed. Ah the wonders of the selection algorithm! I am familiar with UG but the biggest problem is font size! All of UG songs are too small for my old eyes. That’s one of the reasons I like your chord sheets. Bigger fonts, nice line spacing, plus the notes on the little fills/runs that make the song unique. Thanks Nate.
I doesn’t indicate the rhythm per se. Sometimes users include the rhythm in the beginning of the tab for guitar players or you could listen to it and try to hear the rhythm. If there’s an offical version to a song and you have the pro subscription you have access to the sheet music and rhythms for the instrument, but that would nearly be equivalent to just looking at the sheet music.
Hi! Unfortunately it generally does not. That is where you'll need to bring in other tools, like playing along and imitating the recording and finding what sounds good to your ear. The more songs you learn, the better a feel you'll have for it. Have fun :)
Nate you are an awesome teacher. Your tutorial here will have anybody playing the piano in weeks rather than years. I had piano lessons for 2 yrs as a teen and could only play silly songs I never wanted to learn and nobody wanted to hear : )
Glad you're coming back to it now! That's the problem with traditional lessons...people play boring elementary music that's not very inspiring. Cheers!
I very much appreciate how you explain things simply yet thoroughly. Thank you so much.
Glad it was helpful!
One of my favorite lessons . So easy to follow.
Great to hear!
Why why why didn't I watch this 2 months ago? My bad, but now my good! This video opened a Hugh door for me. So many Thanks Nate! Peace
So glad to hear it!
Did it open heaven's door?
⚠ To clarify! Everything I describe in this video can be done for free and without a subscription. Just be sure you're accessing the site on desktop rather than mobile (where they funnel you to the app/subscription). You can't access the "pro" and "official" charts, but there are usually plenty of other options. I'm sure there are some nice perks of a paid subscription, but I have never had one personally, and I have no affiliation with ultimate guitar.
🔷 Learn with a chord-based approach! Nate's 5-Level Piano Course: www.pianochordbreakthroughs.com/
🟡 Give Nate a Tip: www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=YWK4H7C57P2VE
Nate we gotta get this vid sponsored by ultimate guitar. Get that networking game on.
Thank you, Nate you are a Genius and I love your work/teachings.
🙏🙏🙏
Nice Job Nate!
Thanks!
Great video learnt a lot!
Glad to hear it!
Hello Nate! 🎹🎹🎹🎹
This is sohelpful, thank you! Love the end bit where you embellish the chords-
Glad it was helpful!
Always love your videos!
Thanks so much!
Thank you so much, that’s so helpful 🤩
So glad!
Great video!
Thanks!
How have I never realized they had a piano option? I definitely submitted a few tabs to UG back in the early 2000s. Been using that site forever. It’s a classic.
On a side note, bit of a coincidence that you chose Knocking on Heavens Door as your example. GnR did their famous cover of that song and UG was started because the guy who created it couldn’t find a GnR tab online 😂
Honestly I've been using it for years too and only discovered the piano feature when doing a deep dive to make this video!!!
@@PianowithNate Good, I’m not the only one! Yeah, it’s funny that I learn this now because I’ll probably never need to use it at this point lol. Building chords is pretty much a wrap for me. One of the things I love about piano is it’s so much more intuitive when it comes to theory. It’s so much easier to look at something like a m7b5 and just build it. Certain things get a little lost in the sauce with guitar. And you notice things more on piano. Like, on guitar, I knew I could substitute a vii° for a V7, but it wasn’t until I learned piano that I realized why it works so well. A vii° is just a rootless V7. Duh… why didn’t I notice that on guitar? I knew the notes. I should’ve noticed it, but I didn’t.
Thanks so much for this Nate! I always use ultimate guitar in piano setting to try and learn songs on my own, but I had NO IDEA there was the transpose feature! I always wondered why some of them just didn't sound right when I tried them. Can't wait to use this feature!
Also one suggestion, I've downloaded and printed all the chords and lyric sheets from your lessons and one thing I wish they had is the chord shapes used in the songs (like the header on ultimate guitar), especially when they are inversions!!!
Thanks as always for the amazing content you put out!
Hey Ashley! Glad this video gave you some useful tips.
Thanks for the feedback on the chord charts too...I'll mull it over. I think I could certainly do it for the simpler songs. My worry is that for more complicated songs, especially those that do different inversions of the same chord in different sections, it would be a big undertaking that would make it so I'd have to slow down my pace of releasing videos.
Many thanks, Nate. This is really helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the useful video
Will you ever do Lovely Rita tutorial?
Possibly! Slowly working through my long list of Beatles songs. If I keep at this long enough, I'll hit them all!
Great post thank u. Nick Cave fan? If so would u please consider a tut for the ship song. Luv the channel. Isaac
Hey Nate I love ur videos! And ur tutorials have helped me a lot, I would love if u could make one for the song "il bambino che contava le stelle" from Ultimo! Sending love from CR 🇨🇷!! :D
I'll check it out!
@@PianowithNate Thank you! It means a lot! And keep up the good work dude!! :D
Awesome video, Nate! I've fallen out of practice for a bit due to some health stuff but I'm hoping to get back to regular practice soon. Your videos and lessons are my number one source of learning and ultimate guitar is my second. I'm still navigating how to make chord charts sound right. I usually get stalled at rhythm and timing and all that. I can replicate the chords just fine and navigate inversions but figuring out when to play, especially on songs that are originally guitar that I want to sound more like guitar.
I've still got highwayman by the white buffalo on my wishlist for a tutorial! And I'll throw the ballad of Curtis Loew on there as well just cos I'm greedy.
Also wondering if you're planning on doing any Christmas content for December? If so, looking forward to it. My initial goal when I first got my piano was to be able to play a couple Christmas songs within my first year of learning.
Thanks again for all your effort and content, Nate! You're so helpful and inspiring to so many. Happy holidays and can't wait to see what's next!
So glad to hear you're doing better and getting back to playing! I am planning on releasing a few xmas videos in the coming week :)
thx!
can you do a tutorial on Goodbye yellow brick wall by elton john
Can I make another song request? How about Fairy Tale of New York by the Pogues / Kirsty MacColl? Just in time for the holidays!! :)
It would be very timely in more ways than one. I'm going to sit down and play with it today
Yes ultimate guitar is good that’s where I learned all my chords on guitar the only thing is some songs like the maker of the chord chart took it off that’s kinda annoying and u have to subscribe to use features which is stupid but you can pretty much learn any country and pop song on guitar
It does have some features that you need to subscribe for, but to be clear I've never subscribed and everything I demonstrate in this video can be done for free and without a subscription
@@PianowithNate so I looked at your website and your form Oregon? I live in Oregon and I am starting piano on Christmas literally I already know my parents got me a piano for Christmas cuz they asked me what kind I wanted. Do you have any like lessons on how to get started on piano and what’s the first thing for me to learn? Also how do I memorize which key is which letter?
@@PianowithNate I been panting guitar for 5 years I live it so
Piano is brand new to me
Ultimate guitar costs too much. Echord is cheaper and has a free subscription. I have the pro and work it with iReal pro much better 🤷♂️👍🎶🕺🏴
Ultimate Guitar is for the most part free except for the Original Versions, which aren’t submitted by users. Other than that you get ads and no autoscroll feature without the subscription. You can still print it or scroll while playing. I’ve been using ultimate guitar for quite sometime and I’m very happy. I even bought the subscription for 25€ annually (only during sales) and I didn’t regret it.
@@Percy500 just looked it up and the only free I see is for a week and then it’s a subscription.
Maybe you have an old subscription that’s now been changed, also it’s considerably more than what you paid. Look it up now 🤷♂️👍🎶🕺🏴
@@barryhunt8527 I just logged out of the app and tried it in the private browser tab. You can use the features I described without logging in and without having a free trial. I agree that the price for the subscription is higher than I stated, but if you sign up for the email list and wait for an offer, for example on Black Friday or Christmas or something like that, you can still get a lower price. For example the offer for €25 was just sent to me a week ago.
I've never had an ultimate guitar subscription...I just avoid the "pro" and "official" charts. Make sure you're doing it on desktop not mobile.
Dude how broke are you if you think Ultimate Guitar cost too much? I think it's dirt cheap and has so much value for any musician. If you can"t afford UG do you even have a piano or keyboard?
Hey, I love your videos and the way you teach! So first off, thank you so much for that!
Hi!! Thank you for the kind words. I will check it out!
OMGG hey!! I seriously didn’t think you’d reply!
thank you so so much ❤️
I'm reluctant to subscribe to Ultimate Guitar. Considering that most of the music is donated, I think they have a nerve to ask for a subscription. There are other websites offering a similar service for free.
I don’t think Nate is asking you to subscribe to Ultimate Guitar.
@@GL-bd3kn you don’t get a lot of choice as far as I can see unless I missed something 🤷♂️👍🤪🏴
Ultimate Guitar is for the most part free except for the Original Versions, which aren’t submitted by users. Other than that you get ads and no autoscroll feature without the subscription. You can still print it or scroll while playing. I’ve been using ultimate guitar for quite sometime and I’m very happy.
@@Percy500 no it’s not
Make sure you're using it on desktop! If you search within the site you do have to avoid the "pro" and "official" versions of tabs, but there are plenty of free ones for every song. I should have gone into that in more detail in the video
I have found it hard to know how many beats to give to each chord without looking at the sheet music. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.
Sometimes users include the rhythm in the beginning of the tab for guitar players or you could listen to it and try to hear the rhythm. I personally just play the chords according to the sheet and notice, while singing, what chords have to be repeated or are played for example for an eight. Try to start with a song you know in order to have a feeling, while playing, how the song should sound and start experimenting there.
This can definitely be a challenge. One thing I will say is you will get better at this over time. I recommend taking some time to listen to the recording and try tapping your foot along to count the rhythms. Using some sheet music as well just as a reference just for the measure structure is a great tool right now as you keep developing your ear. Cheers!
Thanks Nate! I’m learning so many songs following you!
So glad to hear that, and thank YOU!
Thank you very much. I am a beginner and use this app, but I never really understood how to use it properly. I saw all the chords there and I was like “ok, how can I use them? How can I use both hands?”. Now I know, from a very fast and straightforward video. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
So glad it was helpful - cheers!!
This is so helpful Nate. Thank you!! I am trying to learn Heart of Life by John Mayer using the chord chart from ultimate guitar. I'm struggling on how to fill it in and "embellish" it the way you do. Maybe you can do a tutorial in the future??
Glad it was helpful. I'll check out that song!
Hi Nate can you do a fairytale of New York by the povds
Working on it 🫡
Thank you very much
Cheers!
This was awesome.. thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
You should do A good old fashioned lover boy by Queen or My love, Mine all mine by Mitski
Great ideas!
Here you go! ua-cam.com/video/UeCaY5I4XPA/v-deo.htmlsi=O5LVcOMqYMe0Bybj
So I just came from your live streaming and this tutorial was in my you tube feed. Ah the wonders of the selection algorithm! I am familiar with UG but the biggest problem is font size! All of UG songs are too small for my old eyes. That’s one of the reasons I like your chord sheets. Bigger fonts, nice line spacing, plus the notes on the little fills/runs that make the song unique. Thanks Nate.
Cheers!
The good thing with UG is that both you and your guitar friends can use it at the same time.
Yes!
Thanks Nate!! I found st stephen by grateful dead on ultimate guitar 🙏🙏
Awesome!
Thanks for the video Nate! Do you know if ultimate guitar can help indicate the best piano rithym/pattern to play?
I doesn’t indicate the rhythm per se. Sometimes users include the rhythm in the beginning of the tab for guitar players or you could listen to it and try to hear the rhythm. If there’s an offical version to a song and you have the pro subscription you have access to the sheet music and rhythms for the instrument, but that would nearly be equivalent to just looking at the sheet music.
Hi! Unfortunately it generally does not. That is where you'll need to bring in other tools, like playing along and imitating the recording and finding what sounds good to your ear. The more songs you learn, the better a feel you'll have for it. Have fun :)