Chords for Tony Banks Discusses Learning to Play Piano
Tempo:
136.3 bpm
Chords used:
Ab
A
Eb
C
Cm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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So what age did you first play the piano?
I probably started, I played the piano when I was four or five, I was sort of hip, the hip thing, you know, and
it was quite, I used to pick out things by ear, sort of one note stuff and things, I used to enjoy that and
on the strength of that my mother, you know, what I say, made me, I had lessons at school, you know.
At what age?
I'm seven.
Okay.
I went to prep school and it was always a bit of a, bit of a drudge, I have to be honest about it, really.
I didn't, I can't say I ever really enjoyed it.
I mean I enjoyed it to a point, obviously you do, don't you, but, and then I went to an actual charter
accident, I was taught, and I didn't really enjoy it there, I had a teacher who didn't really suit me, and after
a year there of this and feeling I was probably never going to do it again, by this time I'd always started
to play by ear and I enjoyed that much more.
I then changed to a different teacher, a guy called Leonard Harcrow, who, you know, he gave me the things like
[Ab] the Ratman and Officer Ravels I've told you about, and I completely had a sort of real resurgence in my interest
in classical music and really enjoyed it, actually, even though I, you know, I'm never going to be a classical
pianist, I haven't got the technique, but it was fun to play and I just loved some of the pieces I was playing.
So that got me back into it and that combined [Eb] with being able to play by ear means that you're immediately
led into [C] composition, [A] you just say, well why don't you do that and [Cm] do this and do that, and see where it goes.
And we're [Db] very lucky that in the sort of late 60s and early 70s you could get away with murder in terms of what you did,
in terms of chords, structure, melody, lyrics, you know, people wanted to hear you do 25 minute songs with
hundreds of chord [Ab] changes, time changes and strange lyrics, you know, and we relished that, so that's why we were lucky.
So that man, that man that
[Gb] reinvigorated your [Gbm] piano playing was quite [A] an important person.
Very important man [Bb] in my life, you know, I'm very grateful to him, you know, because most of my teachers of every [N] kind
were a little bit forgettable, to be honest, I mean, I had some reasonable teachers and everything else, but I know a lot of people
come out of school saying, oh this man did it for me, but he was very important, you know, probably almost without knowing it in a way,
although he was very sympathetic and he liked the way I played.
He said, because I used to play fairly imperfectly,
with a lot of passion, and I think he liked that, you know, rather than playing it all technically perfect and not being much emotion,
but I would always play bum notes, as anybody who's ever seen Genesis will
I probably started, I played the piano when I was four or five, I was sort of hip, the hip thing, you know, and
it was quite, I used to pick out things by ear, sort of one note stuff and things, I used to enjoy that and
on the strength of that my mother, you know, what I say, made me, I had lessons at school, you know.
At what age?
I'm seven.
Okay.
I went to prep school and it was always a bit of a, bit of a drudge, I have to be honest about it, really.
I didn't, I can't say I ever really enjoyed it.
I mean I enjoyed it to a point, obviously you do, don't you, but, and then I went to an actual charter
accident, I was taught, and I didn't really enjoy it there, I had a teacher who didn't really suit me, and after
a year there of this and feeling I was probably never going to do it again, by this time I'd always started
to play by ear and I enjoyed that much more.
I then changed to a different teacher, a guy called Leonard Harcrow, who, you know, he gave me the things like
[Ab] the Ratman and Officer Ravels I've told you about, and I completely had a sort of real resurgence in my interest
in classical music and really enjoyed it, actually, even though I, you know, I'm never going to be a classical
pianist, I haven't got the technique, but it was fun to play and I just loved some of the pieces I was playing.
So that got me back into it and that combined [Eb] with being able to play by ear means that you're immediately
led into [C] composition, [A] you just say, well why don't you do that and [Cm] do this and do that, and see where it goes.
And we're [Db] very lucky that in the sort of late 60s and early 70s you could get away with murder in terms of what you did,
in terms of chords, structure, melody, lyrics, you know, people wanted to hear you do 25 minute songs with
hundreds of chord [Ab] changes, time changes and strange lyrics, you know, and we relished that, so that's why we were lucky.
So that man, that man that
[Gb] reinvigorated your [Gbm] piano playing was quite [A] an important person.
Very important man [Bb] in my life, you know, I'm very grateful to him, you know, because most of my teachers of every [N] kind
were a little bit forgettable, to be honest, I mean, I had some reasonable teachers and everything else, but I know a lot of people
come out of school saying, oh this man did it for me, but he was very important, you know, probably almost without knowing it in a way,
although he was very sympathetic and he liked the way I played.
He said, because I used to play fairly imperfectly,
with a lot of passion, and I think he liked that, you know, rather than playing it all technically perfect and not being much emotion,
but I would always play bum notes, as anybody who's ever seen Genesis will
Key:
Ab
A
Eb
C
Cm
Ab
A
Eb
So what age did you first play the piano? _ _
I probably started, I played the piano when I was four or five, I was sort of hip, the hip thing, you know, and
it was quite, I used to pick out things by ear, sort of one note stuff and things, I used to enjoy that and
on the strength of that my mother, you know, _ _ what I say, made me, I had lessons at school, you know.
At what age?
I'm seven.
Okay.
I went to prep school and it was _ always a bit of a, bit of a drudge, I have to be honest about it, really.
I didn't, I can't say I ever really enjoyed it.
_ _ I mean I enjoyed it to a point, obviously you do, don't you, but, and then I went to an actual charter
accident, I was taught, and I didn't really enjoy it there, I had a teacher who didn't really suit me, and after
a year there of this and feeling I was probably never going to do it again, by this time I'd always started
to play by ear and I enjoyed that much more.
I then changed to a different teacher, a guy called Leonard Harcrow, who, you know, he gave me the things like
[Ab] the Ratman and Officer Ravels I've told you about, and I completely had a sort of real resurgence in my interest
in classical music and really enjoyed it, actually, even though I, you know, I'm never going to be a classical
pianist, I haven't got the technique, but it was fun to play and I just loved some of the pieces I was playing.
So that got me back into it and that combined [Eb] with being able to play by ear means that you're immediately
led into [C] composition, [A] you just say, well why don't you do that and [Cm] do this and do that, and see where it goes.
And we're [Db] very lucky that in the sort of late 60s and early 70s you could get away with murder in terms of what you did,
in terms of chords, structure, melody, lyrics, you know, people wanted to hear you do 25 minute songs with
hundreds of chord [Ab] changes, time changes and strange lyrics, you know, and we relished that, so that's why we were lucky.
So that man, that man that _
[Gb] reinvigorated your [Gbm] piano playing was quite [A] an important person.
Very important man [Bb] in my life, you know, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I'm very grateful to him, you know, because most of my teachers of every [N] kind
were a little bit forgettable, to be honest, I mean, I had some reasonable teachers and everything else, but I know a lot of people
come out of school saying, oh this man did it for me, but he was very important, you know, probably almost without knowing it in a way,
although he was very sympathetic and he liked the way I played. _
He said, because I used to play fairly imperfectly,
with a lot of passion, and I think he liked that, you know, rather than playing it all technically perfect and not being much emotion,
but I would always play bum notes, as anybody who's ever seen Genesis will
I probably started, I played the piano when I was four or five, I was sort of hip, the hip thing, you know, and
it was quite, I used to pick out things by ear, sort of one note stuff and things, I used to enjoy that and
on the strength of that my mother, you know, _ _ what I say, made me, I had lessons at school, you know.
At what age?
I'm seven.
Okay.
I went to prep school and it was _ always a bit of a, bit of a drudge, I have to be honest about it, really.
I didn't, I can't say I ever really enjoyed it.
_ _ I mean I enjoyed it to a point, obviously you do, don't you, but, and then I went to an actual charter
accident, I was taught, and I didn't really enjoy it there, I had a teacher who didn't really suit me, and after
a year there of this and feeling I was probably never going to do it again, by this time I'd always started
to play by ear and I enjoyed that much more.
I then changed to a different teacher, a guy called Leonard Harcrow, who, you know, he gave me the things like
[Ab] the Ratman and Officer Ravels I've told you about, and I completely had a sort of real resurgence in my interest
in classical music and really enjoyed it, actually, even though I, you know, I'm never going to be a classical
pianist, I haven't got the technique, but it was fun to play and I just loved some of the pieces I was playing.
So that got me back into it and that combined [Eb] with being able to play by ear means that you're immediately
led into [C] composition, [A] you just say, well why don't you do that and [Cm] do this and do that, and see where it goes.
And we're [Db] very lucky that in the sort of late 60s and early 70s you could get away with murder in terms of what you did,
in terms of chords, structure, melody, lyrics, you know, people wanted to hear you do 25 minute songs with
hundreds of chord [Ab] changes, time changes and strange lyrics, you know, and we relished that, so that's why we were lucky.
So that man, that man that _
[Gb] reinvigorated your [Gbm] piano playing was quite [A] an important person.
Very important man [Bb] in my life, you know, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I'm very grateful to him, you know, because most of my teachers of every [N] kind
were a little bit forgettable, to be honest, I mean, I had some reasonable teachers and everything else, but I know a lot of people
come out of school saying, oh this man did it for me, but he was very important, you know, probably almost without knowing it in a way,
although he was very sympathetic and he liked the way I played. _
He said, because I used to play fairly imperfectly,
with a lot of passion, and I think he liked that, you know, rather than playing it all technically perfect and not being much emotion,
but I would always play bum notes, as anybody who's ever seen Genesis will