Beatles Yesterday Tutorial

In order to play the song Yesterday song by the Beatles according to my piano tutorial you only need to know the names of the keys on the keyboard. Make sure you went through this lesson before following this piano tut o.k.?

The How to Play Piano Chords Lesson. will show you the concept behind our piano tutorials. It will give you a clear view on how we're going to learn to accompany ourselves on the piano.

The Beatles Yesterday Piano Tutorial contains five chords: F major chord, Esus7 chord and Asus4 chords, A7 Chord, Dm Chord, Bb Chord and Am/C chord.

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If you're not familiar with sus chords here's a great oppurunity to learn about it. Click here to learn about Sus Chords

The last chord is a slash chord. If you're not familiar with them I suggest you Click here to go through this piano lesson as well.

During the Beatles Yesterday Tutorial we will limit ourselves to playing all chords within the range of F under middle C and F above middle C with the right hand.

That means that we have to play all five chords in the correct Chord Inversions .

We'll set the left hand on the C position starting from the lower C. Later on we will be asked to stretch our hand to the B note next to middle C and we'll go back to the lower C by performing a crossing over.

I suggest you first practice playing one chord for each bar (or sometimes two chords in a bar) before you move to the next level and add the groove.

The groove is a pattern in the right hand and the left hand that repeats through the whole song. Click here to learn more about how to groove.

Anyways, here is the groove for Beatles Yesterday piano tutorial.

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Here's a piano free piano tab to help you practice the song the way we've played in the Beatles Yesterday piano tutorial. Click here for a free printable piano tab of the song.

...And here are the lyrics

Yesterday / Beatles

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.
Now it looks as though they're here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
I'm not half the man I used to be,
There's a shadow hanging over me,
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Chorus:
Why she had to go
I don't know she wouldn't say.
I said something wrong,
Now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Why she had to go
I don't know she wouldn't say.
I said something wrong,
Now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
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