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Before playing make sure you went through the How to Play Piano Chords Lesson. It will give you a clear view on learning to play the piano accompaniment of different songs.

This is one of the best beginning piano lessons in the tutorial section.

Playing the Imagine piano tutorial by the Beatles doesn't take much. You should basically be able to play these four chords: C major chord, F major chord, G Major Chord and E Major.

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The Full Hand Position Imagine

During the Imagine Piano Tutorial we will limit ourself to playing all chord within the range of B under middle C and Bb above middle C. We'll place our left hand on the C position under middle C.


That means that we have to play all five chords in the correct Chord Inversions if we want to play the Imagine Piano Tutorial.

Here are the suitable chord inversions of all five chord within the given range.

C Major root position F Major 2nd Inversion
E Major Chord in the 2nd inversion G Major 1st inversion
Imagine Piano Groove

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 Imagine Piano Tutorial.


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Imagine Piano Sheet Music
Click here to download the Free Imagine Piano Sheet Music

Click here if you're looking for an instrumental version of the song Imagine.

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If you'd like to find a piano sheet with the melody of the song, the lyrics and the chords all together you should check it up in here. icon

I've been looking around and "Musicnotes" is the best place where you can get excellent piano sheets....

Recently we also made an easy version for the song with the melody. Click Here to see it.

Here below I add the lyrics of the song so you can print them and practice both singing and playing once you get the accompanying part done.

John Lennon Imagine Lyrics

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

The next piano lesson is dedicated to learning a few piano tricks that will help us to play a musical line of 6, 7 or 8 notes with only five fingers.

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