The best instructional video I have seen on TH-cam, the way you have analyzed and simplified the song is amazing. You are a great teacher and by your generosity we all piano learner are benefiting all. God bless you and a Happy New year to you.
thank you so much!! great video with understandable music theory integrations!!! aside from the song, I was able to follow main concepts with chords, arpegggios and so on (this kind of tutorial is hard to find) what you explain is really helpful!!
Absolutely fantastic tutorial! Makes learning process so much easier with deeper understanding on what is actually going on there. I tried to learn how to play this song using a sheet music awhile ago, and I failed miserably. The score was out of my league and too complicated, at least I thought that was. The way you teach this makes it impossible to forget and sounds great! Thank you Christian, you are a great teacher.
Great breakdown. When you learn a tune this way, even if you don't remember the exact score years later, you can still restore it in your head step by step.
The story goes that many ABBA songs were "born" in a simple cottage on a tiny Baltic Sea island. I don't know if "The Winner" belongs to those. You worked out the very basic ideas so well that I can very easily imagine the situation, jamming over some simple diatonic chord progression. And later finalized at Polar studio in Stockholm. Thank you for your journey into the core of that song👍.
❤ I write to you from Chile 🇨🇱I You are a formidable master. You have an excellent methodology, and you explain with incredible clarity. You gained a subscriber. Thank you so very much.
Thanks a lot for this tutorial! With your explanations it is the first time I managed to play the intro. Would you please make a video playing the whole melody as provided by your sheets - this would be really helpful for me learning the rest. :)
@@christianklikovits Well deserved Christian and if you can one day use the software for this beginner that shows the keys being played then even better.
Thank you Christian for the explanation. I have a question: The chords provided in the link are not the exactöy the same as shown in the video, is it possible to get them? Many greetings. Sandra
Hi Sandra, I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Almost everything I play in the video is shown in notation on the screen so you could just screen shot that. The only exception is one little verse part, where I was demonstrating how to improvise the accompaniment using the chord shapes that the notation is showing; the whole idea there is to improvise it, and not play it the same way every time...
Well now you've left me wanting more! That was beautiful. If you take requests, I would say please play it from start to finish so we can listen to it whole 🤍
Unbalanced tutorial...The first half of the tutorial is clear,comprehensible,easy to play for an intermediate,but the second part and moreover the last third is more like a speed run to the end of the piece, with all this complicated plated chords even more out of reach than a Bach sheet!!!!! It's too bad that your sheet is not downloadable....Thanks for your work anyway....
Hi Denys, sorry to hear you found this partly confusing. I think some of it is due to the fact that Benny Andersson's piano playing is just very complex; I already simplified it quite a bit. Here's a link to a PDF, hopefully that helps a little: drive.google.com/file/d/1Vlv_oaSolRl3_6YD7VplyjazFHBAy4Pd/view?usp=drive_link
Hi Chris,thanks a lot for the Pdf download....It will probably help me till bar 50....After,till bar 68,it's out of reach for me....And you say you've simplified it!!!....I wonder what would it look like if you hadn't!!!.... This is my 5th year of piano,and I've learned relatively easyly the Moonlight sonata,the Turkish march,and a few Chopin's Préludes,and I get stuck with this Abba piece....Weird!!!!....Have a pleasant day,and a wave from Paris,France@@christianklikovits
@@denyshenriquez-ohme7373 Who would have thought that ABBA could be more challenging than Mozart 😀 Interestingly, the bars you mentioned are something you might totally find in a classical piece...
You're right.....Like the 2nd movement of Beethoven's "Sonate Pathétique" probably...For the time being above my level,except the first part(my instructor rates the sonata grade 8/9)...I've browsed through various tutorials of the Abba song,and the playability really depends on the arrangements...Even basic melodies(Mozart's Twinkle twinkle little for example) are arranged to be only played by advanced performers,when it's so easy to play with the Alberti bases....But I always try to match the tutorial with my level.... Anyway,I'll try to make the best of your tutorial along with the score.... @@christianklikovits
@@christianklikovits Hi Cristian can you give us the downloadable music score / too challenging to re-write not by note and the pdf is not accessible / thanks, greetings from Singapore.
'They're tonicising the ... minor chords with secondary dominants' I need to slip this quote into casual conversations a lot more.
It's guaranteed to elicit baffled looks from unsuspecting guests at your dinner party 🙂
The best instructional video I have seen on TH-cam, the way you have analyzed and simplified the song is amazing. You are a great teacher and by your generosity we all piano learner are benefiting all. God bless you and a Happy New year to you.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that 🙏
This is the perfect lesson for understanding everything behind the musical idea… Thanks a lot…❤
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Thank you for the sheet music, this is next on my list to learn!
Godspeed 🙂🤘
Thanks for the explain!!!
Thank you for explaining the dynamics of piano playing. More power.
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thank you so much!! great video with understandable music theory integrations!!! aside from the song, I was able to follow main concepts with chords, arpegggios and so on (this kind of tutorial is hard to find) what you explain is really helpful!!
Thank you, Melis, I appreciate that 🙏
Absolutely fantastic tutorial! Makes learning process so much easier with deeper understanding on what is actually going on there. I tried to learn how to play this song using a sheet music awhile ago, and I failed miserably. The score was out of my league and too complicated, at least I thought that was. The way you teach this makes it impossible to forget and sounds great! Thank you Christian, you are a great teacher.
Thank you so much, Alex! I really appreciate the encouragement 🙏🙏
Wow I love ABBA, I must learn this song on piano😊
Great breakdown. When you learn a tune this way, even if you don't remember the exact score years later, you can still restore it in your head step by step.
Exactly! 🙏
Excellent tutorial. The best I've seen yet. Thank you so much Christian. Happy New Year!
Thank you, Jo, i really appreciate that! Happy New Year to you, as well 🎉
This is amazing very good keep posting more videos like this
Thank you, Fabian!
love the left hand changes
Best piano tutorial video I have ever seen.. love it.. ❤👍
Thank you so much, Jusi, I appreciate that 🙏
@@christianklikovits no, I thank you 🙏
Thank you very much! Very smartly!
Thank you, Yulita 🙏
The story goes that many ABBA songs were "born" in a simple cottage on a tiny Baltic Sea island. I don't know if "The Winner" belongs to those. You worked out the very basic ideas so well that I can very easily imagine the situation, jamming over some simple diatonic chord progression. And later finalized at Polar studio in Stockholm. Thank you for your journey into the core of that song👍.
Yes, I've seen some footage of Benny and Bjorn jamming in their little cottage 🤘
I love that group ABBA.
So do I 🤘
Fantastic
Thank you 🙏
Awesome
Thank you 🙏
Great video! Thanks
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I'm w/CK. It takes a real man to admit he likes Abba. This is a great song. :)
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❤ I write to you from Chile 🇨🇱I You are a formidable master. You have an excellent methodology, and you explain with incredible clarity. You gained a subscriber. Thank you so very much.
Muchas gracias, Alberto! I really appreciate it 🙏
Thanks for this
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Vc é um grande mestre e estou encantado com sua técnica e didática muito obrigado eu amo está música um abraço desde o Brasil 🇧🇷
Muito obrigado, Jorge, eu realmente aprecio isso 🙏
Fantástico !!!!! Desde España
Muchas gracias! 😀🙏
Excelente, muy clarito.Iam happy and suscribe. Right now...
Muchas gracias, Pirata 🙏
외국어라 다 이해는 못했지만 굉장히 심플하고 기억하기 쉽게 설명 해주신 거 같아요. 고맙습니다.😊구독!!ㅎ
매우 감사합니다 🙏
Fantastic 👍👍👍
Thank you, Kevin, much appreciated 🙏
Thanks you for share sheet
No problem, Juan, my pleasure!
thant you VERY*100 much!
Thanks a lot for this tutorial! With your explanations it is the first time I managed to play the intro. Would you please make a video playing the whole melody as provided by your sheets - this would be really helpful for me learning the rest. :)
So glad I found you Christian. Immediate sub.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that 🙏
@@christianklikovits Well deserved Christian and if you can one day use the software for this beginner that shows the keys being played then even better.
A fantastic lesson for an ingenious song. Corny? Yeah, well, only if you understand and can feel very little.
Thank you so much I have been looking for a tutorial for this song but all of them are just people playing the song instead of an assual tutorial
Thanks Christian for the excellent explanation. Any chance of sharing the piano sheet?
Hi Maya, here it is drive.google.com/file/d/1Vlv_oaSolRl3_6YD7VplyjazFHBAy4Pd/view?usp=drive_link
Thank you Christian!
You're welcome!
Man enough :D Klikovitz for President!
I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm still learning how to govern my own self properly 😀🤘
☀🤗
Klausi!! 🤟
Do you have a synthesia version og this? Or can you make one?
Sorry, I'm not familiar with that....
Hi, amazing tutorial with chords explanation. But I need permission to the document. Thanks
Here it is: drive.google.com/file/d/1Vlv_oaSolRl3_6YD7VplyjazFHBAy4Pd/view?usp=sharing
Thank you Christian for the explanation. I have a question: The chords provided in the link are not the exactöy the same as shown in the video, is it possible to get them? Many greetings. Sandra
Hi Sandra, I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Almost everything I play in the video is shown in notation on the screen so you could just screen shot that. The only exception is one little verse part, where I was demonstrating how to improvise the accompaniment using the chord shapes that the notation is showing; the whole idea there is to improvise it, and not play it the same way every time...
@@christianklikovits Hi Christian, thank you so much for your response. Your videos are amazing. Many greetings from Germany. Sandra
@@sandralaperna9471 Vielen Dank, Sandra!
I tried clicking the link but it needs permission
Should be working now…
@@christianklikovits THANK YOU!!
Well now you've left me wanting more! That was beautiful. If you take requests, I would say please play it from start to finish so we can listen to it whole 🤍
my thoughts exactly. please please another video for the entire song. It is so beautiful.
shame that it is not in the original key
Hi Marc, here's the chart in F#, maybe that helps: drive.google.com/file/d/1lrnmm4-DfzHagf0j5KNACtLR9MoYdjpj/view?usp=drive_link
@@christianklikovits Hi Christian, it is very kind of you. I do like your tuto.
It's only one semitone off ffs.
Unbalanced tutorial...The first half of the tutorial is clear,comprehensible,easy to play for an intermediate,but the second part and moreover the last third is more like a speed run to the end of the piece, with all this complicated plated chords even more out of reach than a Bach sheet!!!!!
It's too bad that your sheet is not downloadable....Thanks for your work anyway....
Hi Denys, sorry to hear you found this partly confusing. I think some of it is due to the fact that Benny Andersson's piano playing is just very complex; I already simplified it quite a bit. Here's a link to a PDF, hopefully that helps a little: drive.google.com/file/d/1Vlv_oaSolRl3_6YD7VplyjazFHBAy4Pd/view?usp=drive_link
Hi Chris,thanks a lot for the Pdf download....It will probably help me till bar 50....After,till bar 68,it's out of reach for me....And you say you've simplified it!!!....I wonder what would it look like if you hadn't!!!....
This is my 5th year of piano,and I've learned relatively easyly the Moonlight sonata,the Turkish march,and a few Chopin's Préludes,and I get stuck with this Abba piece....Weird!!!!....Have a pleasant day,and a wave from Paris,France@@christianklikovits
@@denyshenriquez-ohme7373 Who would have thought that ABBA could be more challenging than Mozart 😀 Interestingly, the bars you mentioned are something you might totally find in a classical piece...
You're right.....Like the 2nd movement of Beethoven's "Sonate Pathétique" probably...For the time being above my level,except the first part(my instructor rates the sonata grade 8/9)...I've browsed through various tutorials of the Abba song,and the playability really depends on the arrangements...Even basic melodies(Mozart's Twinkle twinkle little for example) are arranged to be only played by advanced performers,when it's so easy to play with the Alberti bases....But I always try to match the tutorial with my level....
Anyway,I'll try to make the best of your tutorial along with the score....
@@christianklikovits
@@christianklikovits Hi Cristian can you give us the downloadable music score / too challenging to re-write not by note and the pdf is not accessible / thanks, greetings from Singapore.
Thank you, Great tutorial! ABBA brings back so many memories for me. Great band.
Thank you, Nizam, I appreciate that 🙏