The Beatles - The Long And Winding Road

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TGNeil
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Wed Dec 15, 2021 3:27 pm

Having spent so much time with the Get Back documentary, I felt obliged to tackle another song from those Beatles sessions. This lesson on Paul McCartney's The Long And Winding Road started out as a solo arrangement idea (after multiple requests from students), which then got complicated. I thought it might be better to start with an accompaniment version first.

The Long And Winding Road is a classic Paul McCartney ballad with a piano accompaniment that first appeared on the Beatles' Let It Be album, released in 1970. An alternate take of it was released in 2003 on the Let It Be...Naked album.
This lesson presents the chord progression in the key of D, a half step lower than the original, with a basic guitar accompaniment, as well as a way to do more like what Paul played on the piano.