Billy Joel’s “She’s Always A Woman” is yet again a perfect embodiment of how to play piano by chords ear and heart.

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Hi Guys! How’s it going?

Due to the grand success and enthusiasm displayed regarding the previous Billy Joel lesson, another one of his that maybe even holds my personal preference in terms of gorgeousness-of-tune: “She’s Always A Woman.”

The chord progression as well as the mix of various cool break-up patterns makes this tune simply an iconic piano tune. Educational on so many levels AND really fun to play.

LESSON | CONTENTS

We’ll look at:

• The gorgeous chord progression, holding every “trick in the book,” from simple triads to, diminished, four-note and complicated extension chords.
• How to use a mix of various break-up patterns to transform that same set of chords to this stellar 8-th beat, flowing piano part.
• How de-constructing the tune in this way, changes it from an overwhelming amounts of unrelating, hard-to grasp, single notes, to a comprehensible, conceptual piece of music.
• How Billy has used the exact Piano Couture approach playing by chords to create and play this whole tune

Main chord progression (intro/verse) image below the video.

Part 1 is available for all. Part 2 – which includes the left-out second part of the chorus, an extra pattern/lick for the verse and the ending of the song – audio only and MIDI files are included in the Deluxe Tutorial, available for all Premium Couturians (and included in the Tutorial Pack)

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UPDATE: NOVEMBER 2ND, 2021

Both parts 1 & 2 of the tutorial now available for free!

You can get the sheet (free for the first week after publication, so that’s between November 2nd and November 9th, 2021) below the video.

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Enjoy and let me know what you think!

Cheers,

Coen.

Song Tutorial

BILLY JOEL | SHE’S ALWAYS A WOMAN part 1

BILLY JOEL | SHE’S ALWAYS A WOMAN part 2