How to Play “The Longest Time” - Billy Joel - DETAILED Tutorial - Solo Piano Arrangement
Channel: Jason Zac - Nathaniel School of Music
Date: 2023-02-02

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Learn every section of the Acapella classic, “For the Longest Time” by Billy Joel as a Solo Piano Arrangement by Jason Zac. There are 4 parts along with an improvised performance every each piece of music. To keep things interesting, we learn different left hand patterns with arpeggios and broken chords and try to replicate every single element the song has to offer with respect to the Acapella rendition

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00:00 Introduction
00:50 Lesson Breakdown (What you will learn)
03:52 Essential Music Theory (Scale & Chords)
04:45 The very beginning
09:01 B section with Arpeggios
15:28 C section with Spread Voicing of Triads
19:13 D section (Bridge) with Acapella section
24:13 Jason’s Improvised Sections
25:51 Improv over the B section
29:18 Improv over the C section
31:16 Outro
35:00 Revision of the Improv
36:49 Conclusion

This song features Billy Joel on lead vocals and all backing vocals. Two musical instruments are present in the song: a bass guitar and a snare drum being played with brushes. All other sounds in the song are Joel's vocals, along with percussive sounds such as finger snaps and hand claps.

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