How to Play Lean on Me on the Piano

Hi and welcome to another one of my Easy to Play Lessons. Today, I am going to show you how to play Lean on Me. [Demo] Recognize that okay believe it or not I am going to have you playing with six fingers in a minute. It is going to be simple and I know you are screaming six fingers I cannot do that. Oh yes you can. Okay, what I need you to do with your left hand is grab your C chord, okay. [Demo] Straight fingers right there. And with your right hand I want you to grab your C chord but we are going to do it this way. Okay you got your E, your G and your C up here, so there you go you got off to play six fingers and that is only taking us about 30 seconds. Okay then what I need you to practice is going up and down the scale, keeping the same position, okay. And you go up one of the time from the C, go up one to the D same. [Demo] The same spread up one more to the E. [Demo] Move every finger in unison okay and one more to the F. [Demo] Okay and then go back down again. [Demo] To the E [Demo] To the D [Demo] Go back to the C. [Demo] Practice that up and down six fingers, they are all staying in the same position you are just moving up and you are moving back down again. Okay and there is one more chord you need to learn to get to the first part it is a G7, okay. [Demo] I’m just going to do that same thing with our left hand and our right hand, so just to go through the first one. [Demo] Four notes, okay. [Demo] You take your D. [Demo] Your F [Demo] Your G [Demo] And your B [Demo] Okay it is a G7 chord. And then do the same thing with your right hand. [Demo] Another milestone, we have got eight fingers going there or six fingers and two thumbs I guess when you look at that, that is a G7. [Demo] Okay now let us put everything we have learned together so far and go back to our C, okay. [Demo] And what we are going to do without the speed which gives you the main beat for the song let us just go through it slowly, okay so starting out with your C. [Demo] Work up back down. [Demo] Okay hit it again and up. [Demo] And down one, okay. [Demo] That is the second part of that. It is a little different the first time than it is in the second only in which note we are going to next. Let us do it one more time here, starting with your C okay. [Demo] Up [Demo] Hit it again. [Demo] And the second time we go. [Demo] Okay and go down there. So we are already up to the E back down to the D okay. And then the second part of it we go through—this is where that G7 that I just showed you comes in. And the second time to the song I just— [Demo] Now, we are going to throw in that G7 that I showed you okay. [Demo] That is your G7 and back to your C where we started okay. [Demo] Let us go through the whole thing now right from start to finish, okay. [Demo] Second time through [Demo] And this is where your G7 comes in. [Demo] And back to your C where we started. [Demo] Okay that is the main verse of the whole song. Okay so, now we move in to the chorus, this is basically the chorus. [Demo] Okay, the thing we are going to do with our left hand and as you get use to playing it you will just put on a little bit of a beat to it. It is just a C chord over and over and over again, where any variations of the C that you want to play, if you want to play them one note at a time. Just get up into a beat during that chorus section and then it ends with that G7 again, just at the end of the chorus or the verse then back to a C again. So all of the verse and the chorus is just going to be a C. [Demo] G7 Back to the C again, okay. [Demo] So, the main thing we have to learn here now is our right hand, okay. [Demo] We are going to start off with a G note here, okay. Do it nice and slow here. [Demo] Okay, all of those notes were in between this G. [Demo] And this E note here. [Demo] Okay and they are all white. Okay so, it is easy to remember. Let us go through it again starting up with the G here, okay. [Demo] Up to the E [Demo] Okay so that is the right hand. Okay and so, like I said j