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How to Play "Yesterday" by The Beatles - Solo Piano

2/17/2014

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Recently, the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' groundbreaking television performance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.   This got me thinking about the Fab Four, one of my favorite groups to listen to, play, and teach, and I decided to write an arrangement of the beautiful Paul McCartney tune "Yesterday." I just learned that he was 23 when he recorded this -- wow!   

In the following intermediate level solo piano arrangement, I break up learning this song in three parts:  First, we learn the all important melody.  Next, we learn the bass notes.  And finally, we fill up the space in between the melody and bass notes.  You might be thinking -- but I don't have three hands?  Well, yes, that's true, but we can make it seem like you do.  The trick is to play the melody with the top two fingers of your right hand, and fill in chord tones with with the bottom three fingers of your RH.  Sound complicated?  Not to worry, I break it all down for you in the video tutorial and sheet music below.  

Happy Shedding!   


Video Tutorial Part 1


Video Tutorial Part 2


Sheet Music

Yesterday (The Beatles) Solo Piano Arrangement | The Piano Shed by The Piano Shed - Jazz, Pop, and Blues Music Lessons

4 Comments
Kate
1/14/2020 05:47:30 pm

Hello! I am very happy to discover this easy to follow tutorial for song Yesterday. I just started to learn how to play piano and this is my first song. I love to practice it! Thank you very much for making this video for us. I would like to play it also from "sheet" to learn properly how to read music, but link for download is no longer functional. Could I humbly ask for that file please? I found some other sheet music versions of it, but they have different left hand and harmony parts sometimes and I like yours the most. Thank you very much!

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Claudio Mendez
11/23/2022 08:46:09 am

Buenos días: Quisiera tener la versión MIDI si fuera posible o al menos la partitura de tu bello arreglo de "Yesterday"

Good morning: I would like to have the MIDI version if possible or at least the score of your beautiful arrangement of "Yesterday"

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Tiara Bailey
4/27/2020 07:21:57 pm

Hi! I recently started learning Yesterday by The Beatles. Thank so much for this tutorial, it helped a lot. I was just wondering if I could receive the music sheets by email? when I click on the link it says that the sheets have been removed. Thank you so much for your help!

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Karla Garrison link
6/15/2022 10:19:00 am

Great post, much appreciate the time you took to write this

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