i am a guitar player but ive been watchig ur vids on UtUBe 4 sum time trying to get my piano skills up! youve helped me more than i could thank U man! im slower than crap when it comes to piano but im getting alot better thanks to U! ide shake your hand if it werent so busy lolZ thanks BRO
OMG!!!! I started watching the video and was like, pufff, I’m never going to play this…but after 30 minutes I was playing it!!!
I can’t believe it, thank you for sharing with us your gift of playing AND teaching!
Your videos are terrific! I came across your video for Love Song on YouTube out of bordom and learned it with my old keyboard lying around. You explain all the notes very well and make it easy for anyone to learn. Keep up the excellent work!
i have really small fingers and cant reach with the left hand chords for love song, so do you have a different way to play it for little hands?
if you do thankyou sooo much for everything, i learnt how 2 play Take a bow on your tutorial and now im playing and singing it it our school rock concert, i would also looooovvvvvveeeeeeeee to do love song aswell….thanks heaps mate
thank u soo much for posting this tutorial on you tube. u have no idea of how much my friends and i have wanted to learn this song on the piano!! i have one question, though. in the tutorial, u said that that same pattern of chords is played throughout the whole song, but when listening to the radio i noticed that during the bridge(which is not always played on the radio) sara slows down the tempo and sings something like “promise me, that you’ll leave the light on” and the piano seems different. so i was just wondering if u could try and figure that out. if u did that would be awesome!!! thank you soo much
Nice, really nice. I’ve being thinking that I want learn this song, and now… it’s here! You read my mind! Thank you, these “lessons” are great! And by the way, HOW YOU LEARN THESE SONGS?! If you just listen song and then play, you ARE really good.
( Sorry, my english isn’t really good, I’m from Finland, but I hope you undestand! )
Wow, i’ve been playing this song for a while now and i figured i’d look at this to see if you had the middle part of the song on here and instead of that i saw that i was playing part if it wrong… i figured it out on my own thats probly why but thank you of rthat wake up call!
Hello Ryan. I’ve been whatching this video carefully, and I am very amazed at the accuracy of your notes. They are the EXACT notes that I invented for my song. Awsome Job
Ryan, about two months ago i new only one song on piano( Let It Be), now after watching these videos i have given up guitar and now am in an amazing band because of your help.
This was the first song of twenty-nine that i learned from you in about two months. I have searched yotube for hours to find a good teacher then i found you, and your amazing skills. I think I speak for all when i say THANK YOU!!!!!
hey just wanted to say, thanks!!!!!!!!!!!
your really good. and also, after you play two F sharps on your left hand you play a C sharp. I have the actual sheet music it isn’t a C sharp. its actually just a D. but anyway your awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
omg…. watching you play it i thought i never could…. but that was amazing! i instantly caught on to the song! thanks alot! perfect speed t do things at!
awesome tutorial. although one of the chords sounded a bit off and i realized that you were playing an F but you said it was a G.
this is a tricky song and you’re right, the timing is weird. but this tutorial makes it a lot easier to learn than just by the sheets.
Hi Ryan I don’t play on the piano but i want to know how 2 play love song on piano badly, lols so im sorta confused but can u please(plz) send me the notes to my e-mail :D? PRETTY PLEASE =]
I just say, i wish a had a keyboard
great song’s dude!
but i love this one most, its easy and a good song,
keep doing what you doing, you are amzing man!
if we can wish song’s do a want you to play moving mountains by usher.
i like yur tutorial for this song
but theres this other guy on youtube
his name is crazyasianpiano
i understood this sing in his video better
maybe thats cuz he goes slower
anyways its still awesome
and plz post up a video for viva la vida by coldplay
=D
Sorry to say this but,your always playing something wrong with all the songs i saw on your website.Here on the song your playing your always playing the notes on a rest when your not supose to,so please look at the music sheets so you won’t get it wrong and also isn’t there more to the song?!?! you don’t just repeat the song over an over but anyways good job on everything. =D
TO EVAN: dude shut up hes the one actually taking time ti help all of us so dont be so condescending and who are you to criticize him? last time i checked, he was the one teaching all of us, not you.
I’m confused about the whole piano.
How do you which is A B C D E F G H?
From the left, I would like to know what’s the 1st letter.
I know that they go on in alphebatical order but I just want to know what’s the first letter on the left?
I know it goes like a pattern like this ABC ABC ABC but again, I want to know what’s the first on the key on the left.
thank you sooo much!!!!i had to drag my old keyboard up the stairs so i don’t have to run down to play the song….thank u !!!thank u!!!!thank u!!!!!!i wonder if you could put a tutorial on gravity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!….
I can play piano pretty well,the classical stuff,and some jazz,but Im not that good at playing bass by ear…or playing by ear period,lol. But you’ve helped me SO much,and I like to impress my friends haha. When I found your website I was like WHOA! Thats awesome! So thanks dude,and please keep teaching us!
p.s I have a piano solo of Linkin Parks “lying my way from you” and I got the first two chords down,but thats it. Id be so geeked out if you got that on here!!!
Hi
I’m Stefanie from Austria/europe and I have to say I love every single video of you teaching piano songs!!
It helped so much!!
thanks!!
best regards
from the snowy austria..
Hey. I LOVE ur vids and they get me very far. On utube, im rikoxasora and i was wondering if u could play northern downpour by Panic at the Disco and play It ends tonight by All time low MUCH slower. I would greatly appreciate it. PLEASE email me if you get any new songs or in response to this! Thanks a TON man.
Hey, I just commented on your You-Tube account, but I’m not really sure how often you check that thing, so I thought I’d comment here too. Anywho, I was just wondering if you would be willing to do “Bottle It Up” by Sara Bareilles? It would be greatly appreciated, because I’d like to do it for my school’s Talent Show, but if you can’t I totally understand. Please email or reply soon. Thanks so much!
hey ryan thanks so much for sending out these tutorials!! they help so much and i’m a self taught pianist. and i’ve already learned many songs from you and they r almost mastered thanks to you!! keep it up and good job!!
yey! omg! ryan ur really good, b4 i looked @ this website i could barely play the piano now i can play take a bow and unfaithful perfectly! and ive learnt som eof this song in only 1 day! ive improved heaps! thnx!(H)
hey great song but right after you hit the two B flats with the left you said that with the right is (Bb-C-G) while instead of hitting G you hit F.. so which is the right one??
This is an amazing tutorial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I <3 love song!!!!! Can u do Billy Joel??? I LOVE BILLY JOEL!!!! But he’s a really hard person to learn how to play like and all the vids on YouTube are really fast and hard to learn, especially Piano Man and New York State Of Mind. Could you do a slow version? could u do Faithfully by Journey too? <3 u Ryan. Thnx
For those of you who want to know how he does this, listen to the song then play it thing, it’s simple. It’s a talent you’re pretty much born with called playing by ear. I can play by ear, but not this good. My cousin can, and he can’t stop playing new age piano all the time! It’s like he is a piano magnet! BTW, love your tutorials! They’re the best!
i love this song it is awesome. could you maybe sing this or play this with the CD so we can hear how the lyrics as well.
thanx alot 4 teaching this to us it really helps.
thanx
x LULU x
THX SOOOOO MUCH!
I play guitar but im trying to play some of my fave songs on piano.
I only got to grade 3 at school and suddenly i can play this!
AS I SAID AGAIN, THX SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!
From Katie, 11 yrs
Thank You so much. I decided to learn this song Aug 20, 09. So i tried but i got so frustrated i gave up and the next day i chose another song. Then my parents told me not to give up. So TODAY Aug 22. 09 I wathced your video, yes YOUR VIDEO and im learning this song!! Im actually getting the hang of it now. The only tricky part is the chords but other than that it’s pretty easy. thank you so much!!!!
Yo!!!!! Hey Ryan! I can’t tell you how much you have helped me!! I’ve learned all the songs one the third page….you have a gift of teaching and piano playing, keep on going Ryan!!!!!!!!!
Dude, I kinda get it but I’m still confused could you just send me the notes to my email so I can look them over and try to figure it out without a video? Thanks.
Same chick that just commented, I think you talk to much instead of just telling the notes and demonstrating. You should just get to the point right away. Um, yea, I can’t really make it sound like what you or Sara Bereilles are playing. Like, tell what to play 3 times and what to play once, and details like that. Without those I can’t really follow you. I’m new at piano so it is kinda hard for me to keep up. Lately, I’ve just been writing down the notes you say to play and I play them all together and it doesn’t sound right at all. Do you think you could help me?
Sara Bereilles, you rock!!!!!! I love this song and it really speaks to me. I’m planning on playing it for my school talent show and I’m planning on singing it with the piano. It will be in honor of you!!!!!
I haven’t played anything for about 2 years- just got away from it, but your tutorials have got me back. I learned this in about 90 minutes. It’s helpful to watch and play and go back and redo. How about trying Claire d’Lune? An oldy but goody! Thanks for getting me back at the piano…this is the music I love to listen to and have always wanted to play. Thanks!!
wow! i’ve been playing piano for 3 years and only knew like 5 songs till i go the help i needed from you! ive learned 3 new songs in 5 hours in one day! thats more that half of all the songs ive learned over that 3 year period of time!!!!! lol dosent make sence i know! i had to go back and read it again lol!!! THANKYOU SOOOO MUCH!!!!!!
hello ryan just wanted to say thanks for this its really nice that you do this for people also i have a video tute of supermn by five for fighting if you want it so yeah, email me.
thanks again! btw more coldplay please!
<3 buzza
thank you that was great my mom and i went all over the web trying to find this song and the music and this was great my mom could not belive that i found the music and said this is a good site.
117 Responses for "How to play Love Song by Sara Bareilles Piano Tutorial"
i am a guitar player but ive been watchig ur vids on UtUBe 4 sum time trying to get my piano skills up! youve helped me more than i could thank U man! im slower than crap when it comes to piano but im getting alot better thanks to U! ide shake your hand if it werent so busy lolZ thanks BRO
I love you…(as a friend). I have a keyboard and I progress way more because of you! Thank you soooooooooooooo much.
at 1:05 you say G but ur pressing F and latter u keep hitting F…
My bad.
when i first played this i thought i could never do it but after watching you i could i was thrilled thanks soooooooooooo much!:)
x
OMG!!!! I started watching the video and was like, pufff, I’m never going to play this…but after 30 minutes I was playing it!!!
I can’t believe it, thank you for sharing with us your gift of playing AND teaching!
this song is great, you’re great, and it sounds great
What about the courus?The music is different during the courus, btw this vid was great help!!!
You are a realy good pianoplayer. Keep up the goodwork
I’ve learned alot of you
thanks dude! these r really nice for learning! much respect!
u should put up the chorus!
Thank you so much for teaching me how to play this song i love it
Thank you
Your videos are terrific! I came across your video for Love Song on YouTube out of bordom and learned it with my old keyboard lying around. You explain all the notes very well and make it easy for anyone to learn. Keep up the excellent work!
i have really small fingers and cant reach with the left hand chords for love song, so do you have a different way to play it for little hands?
if you do thankyou sooo much for everything, i learnt how 2 play Take a bow on your tutorial and now im playing and singing it it our school rock concert, i would also looooovvvvvveeeeeeeee to do love song aswell….thanks heaps mate
lilli
lilli , with the left hand you could alternatively just press 1 note on its own instead of 2 octaves.
nice work btw ryan. i’d also like to see the chorus too. but keep up the good work.
thank u soo much for posting this tutorial on you tube. u have no idea of how much my friends and i have wanted to learn this song on the piano!! i have one question, though. in the tutorial, u said that that same pattern of chords is played throughout the whole song, but when listening to the radio i noticed that during the bridge(which is not always played on the radio) sara slows down the tempo and sings something like “promise me, that you’ll leave the light on” and the piano seems different. so i was just wondering if u could try and figure that out. if u did that would be awesome!!! thank you soo much
Nice, really nice. I’ve being thinking that I want learn this song, and now… it’s here! You read my mind! Thank you, these “lessons” are great! And by the way, HOW YOU LEARN THESE SONGS?! If you just listen song and then play, you ARE really good.
)
( Sorry, my english isn’t really good, I’m from Finland, but I hope you undestand!
Wow, i’ve been playing this song for a while now and i figured i’d look at this to see if you had the middle part of the song on here and instead of that i saw that i was playing part if it wrong… i figured it out on my own thats probly why but thank you of rthat wake up call!
btw your tutorials are amazing!
Hello Ryan. I’ve been whatching this video carefully, and I am very amazed at the accuracy of your notes. They are the EXACT notes that I invented for my song. Awsome Job
Amazing Tutorial I loved it and apparently a fake sara bareilles liked it too.
melissa-
melissa-
r u sure that that wasn’t the real sara bareilles commenting on ryans song?
Ryan, about two months ago i new only one song on piano( Let It Be), now after watching these videos i have given up guitar and now am in an amazing band because of your help.
This was the first song of twenty-nine that i learned from you in about two months. I have searched yotube for hours to find a good teacher then i found you, and your amazing skills. I think I speak for all when i say THANK YOU!!!!!
your videos are making me play the piano better it rocks
Thanks this is a great tutorial, i just cant get some of the chord changes they are quite hard. Thanks
HEY IT’S GREAT BUT EVERYONE WOULD LOVE TO KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE CHORUS
this song is too beautiful. you must finish it
awesome! im getting better, but im slower than a snail and it would help if you go a bit slower sometimes…
omg OMG PLEASE GO SLOWER!! I CNAT LEARN AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT :’(
finally got it. Thanks you r great teacher
Thanks for this tutorial. Took about 30 minutes to learn the basics, and a couple more hours to master the song.
Hey Ryan thx for teaching us!! we love it here in Australia!! Thx mate
thanks….you’re amazing. @__@ you play most of your songs by ear right?
hey just wanted to say, thanks!!!!!!!!!!!
your really good. and also, after you play two F sharps on your left hand you play a C sharp. I have the actual sheet music it isn’t a C sharp. its actually just a D. but anyway your awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
ur amaazinngggg. i had quit piano but you made me interested again. thanks!
thanks a bunch 4 doing Love Song! i am so happy you did! now i can play it 2
F not G
omg…. watching you play it i thought i never could…. but that was amazing! i instantly caught on to the song! thanks alot! perfect speed t do things at!
hey ryan,,, i thought that song is realy realy hard.. bt you made it easy,, much easy for me.. thank you..
awesome tutorial. although one of the chords sounded a bit off and i realized that you were playing an F but you said it was a G.
this is a tricky song and you’re right, the timing is weird. but this tutorial makes it a lot easier to learn than just by the sheets.
Hi Ryan I don’t play on the piano but i want to know how 2 play love song on piano badly, lols so im sorta confused but can u please(plz) send me the notes to my e-mail :D? PRETTY PLEASE =]
btw my e-mail is lala_lul@hotmail.com
WOW.
good tutorial
I just say, i wish a had a keyboard
great song’s dude!
but i love this one most, its easy and a good song,
keep doing what you doing, you are amzing man!
if we can wish song’s do a want you to play moving mountains by usher.
i watch this tutorial everyday!
LOVE SONG<3
By the way,
I WANT CHRISTMAS!
I WANT A KEYBOARD!
Great!
hey ryan
i like yur tutorial for this song
but theres this other guy on youtube
his name is crazyasianpiano
i understood this sing in his video better
maybe thats cuz he goes slower
anyways its still awesome
and plz post up a video for viva la vida by coldplay
=D
this is so great.
you’re pretty damn amazing.
thanks for all your time and effort! this is amazing!
Sorry to say this but,your always playing something wrong with all the songs i saw on your website.Here on the song your playing your always playing the notes on a rest when your not supose to,so please look at the music sheets so you won’t get it wrong and also isn’t there more to the song?!?! you don’t just repeat the song over an over but anyways good job on everything. =D
TO EVAN: dude shut up hes the one actually taking time ti help all of us so dont be so condescending and who are you to criticize him? last time i checked, he was the one teaching all of us, not you.
ahhhhh your so awsome!!! <3
Thanks, this was the song i wanted to learn for a long time, and now i Know how to play it, so awesome!
I’m not the ryan, im just another person with the same name:)
I’m not the ryan, im just some1 with the same name:)
woops, i put the same thing twice:S
I’m confused about the whole piano.
How do you which is A B C D E F G H?
From the left, I would like to know what’s the 1st letter.
I know that they go on in alphebatical order but I just want to know what’s the first letter on the left?
I know it goes like a pattern like this ABC ABC ABC but again, I want to know what’s the first on the key on the left.
you helped me soooo much even though i still can’t play it im gonna try,lol. You helped me out ton. Thanks bunches
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thank you sooo much!!!!i had to drag my old keyboard up the stairs so i don’t have to run down to play the song….thank u !!!thank u!!!!thank u!!!!!!i wonder if you could put a tutorial on gravity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!….
thanks that was great i stoped taking piano lessonns about a year ago but since i know the basics i can pick up on almost all of ur songs
I can play piano pretty well,the classical stuff,and some jazz,but Im not that good at playing bass by ear…or playing by ear period,lol. But you’ve helped me SO much,and I like to impress my friends haha. When I found your website I was like WHOA! Thats awesome! So thanks dude,and please keep teaching us!
p.s I have a piano solo of Linkin Parks “lying my way from you” and I got the first two chords down,but thats it. Id be so geeked out if you got that on here!!!
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Hi
I’m Stefanie from Austria/europe and I have to say I love every single video of you teaching piano songs!!
It helped so much!!
thanks!!
best regards
from the snowy austria..
*sorry because my bad english
ruyz hoxy eufhcok hnoxbe
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nice dude! have you made up any songs?
Hey. I LOVE ur vids and they get me very far. On utube, im rikoxasora and i was wondering if u could play northern downpour by Panic at the Disco and play It ends tonight by All time low MUCH slower. I would greatly appreciate it. PLEASE email me if you get any new songs or in response to this! Thanks a TON man.
Awesome man.
Hey, I just commented on your You-Tube account, but I’m not really sure how often you check that thing, so I thought I’d comment here too. Anywho, I was just wondering if you would be willing to do “Bottle It Up” by Sara Bareilles? It would be greatly appreciated, because I’d like to do it for my school’s Talent Show, but if you can’t I totally understand. Please email or reply soon. Thanks so much!
nice tutorial but it is to fast that i stop with it so but it is a good song
hey ryan thanks so much for sending out these tutorials!! they help so much and i’m a self taught pianist. and i’ve already learned many songs from you and they r almost mastered thanks to you!! keep it up and good job!!
have you got music sheets?
please say
Hey MATE!
your so awesomely great man!
keep up the cool work!
thanks
awesome!
hey baby nice work we have the same name lolz
omg i love this song its soooooo kool!
yey! omg! ryan ur really good, b4 i looked @ this website i could barely play the piano now i can play take a bow and unfaithful perfectly! and ive learnt som eof this song in only 1 day! ive improved heaps! thnx!(H)

hey great song but right after you hit the two B flats with the left you said that with the right is (Bb-C-G) while instead of hitting G you hit F.. so which is the right one??
This is an amazing tutorial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I <3 love song!!!!! Can u do Billy Joel??? I LOVE BILLY JOEL!!!! But he’s a really hard person to learn how to play like and all the vids on YouTube are really fast and hard to learn, especially Piano Man and New York State Of Mind. Could you do a slow version? could u do Faithfully by Journey too? <3 u Ryan. Thnx
My band is playing this song for Teacher’s Day performance .
But , i dunnoe to seek help from who .
i need the notes plss ..
help me ..
chorus?
thats not how u play it!!!!!
I love how you play the piano
can you make a tutorial vid of
bad day by daniel powter
could you make a tutorial for Hometown Glory by Adele?
For those of you who want to know how he does this, listen to the song then play it thing, it’s simple. It’s a talent you’re pretty much born with called playing by ear. I can play by ear, but not this good. My cousin can, and he can’t stop playing new age piano all the time! It’s like he is a piano magnet! BTW, love your tutorials! They’re the best!
this is hard
heyy
thx alot for helping me learn this song
it would be even better if you put the pre-chorus ,chorus, and bridge in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
because of you now i know how to play this!!!! thanz
i love this song it is awesome. could you maybe sing this or play this with the CD so we can hear how the lyrics as well.
thanx alot 4 teaching this to us it really helps.
thanx
x LULU x
THX SOOOOO MUCH!
I play guitar but im trying to play some of my fave songs on piano.
I only got to grade 3 at school and suddenly i can play this!
AS I SAID AGAIN, THX SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!
From Katie, 11 yrs
Hey!
Thanx for this GREAT tutorial. You’re fantastic, keep going.
Soz this is kinda random, but is the commenter ’sara bareilles’ real? Thx for the tutorial! xxx
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:^)
@Katie May
Well I doubt it, becuase if it was her she’d only comment on the video once saying well done but the name has been used twice.
I’d also guess that if it was her Ryan would’ve had an e-mail or some form of contact from her personaly.
But then again maybe it could be her
luv this song
Thank You so much. I decided to learn this song Aug 20, 09. So i tried but i got so frustrated i gave up and the next day i chose another song. Then my parents told me not to give up. So TODAY Aug 22. 09 I wathced your video, yes YOUR VIDEO and im learning this song!! Im actually getting the hang of it now. The only tricky part is the chords but other than that it’s pretty easy. thank you so much!!!!
lol i was just reading the comments and someone said
“How do you which is A B C D E F G H?”
im no professional musician but im sure that there is no H.
haha.
btw great job with these videos; theyre real helpful [:
could you do a tutorial on one republic’s all we are, its a really awsome song and i want to learn it so bad
Yo!!!!! Hey Ryan! I can’t tell you how much you have helped me!! I’ve learned all the songs one the third page….you have a gift of teaching and piano playing, keep on going Ryan!!!!!!!!!
Dude, I kinda get it but I’m still confused could you just send me the notes to my email so I can look them over and try to figure it out without a video? Thanks.
Same chick that just commented, I think you talk to much instead of just telling the notes and demonstrating. You should just get to the point right away. Um, yea, I can’t really make it sound like what you or Sara Bereilles are playing. Like, tell what to play 3 times and what to play once, and details like that. Without those I can’t really follow you. I’m new at piano so it is kinda hard for me to keep up. Lately, I’ve just been writing down the notes you say to play and I play them all together and it doesn’t sound right at all. Do you think you could help me?
Sara Bereilles, you rock!!!!!! I love this song and it really speaks to me. I’m planning on playing it for my school talent show and I’m planning on singing it with the piano. It will be in honor of you!!!!!
I haven’t played anything for about 2 years- just got away from it, but your tutorials have got me back. I learned this in about 90 minutes. It’s helpful to watch and play and go back and redo. How about trying Claire d’Lune? An oldy but goody! Thanks for getting me back at the piano…this is the music I love to listen to and have always wanted to play. Thanks!!
wow! i’ve been playing piano for 3 years and only knew like 5 songs till i go the help i needed from you! ive learned 3 new songs in 5 hours in one day! thats more that half of all the songs ive learned over that 3 year period of time!!!!! lol dosent make sence i know! i had to go back and read it again lol!!! THANKYOU SOOOO MUCH!!!!!!
During the chord at 1:05, you say to play Bb, C, and G when it is actually Bb, C, F
But you do play it correctly but you said the wrong note.
Thanks,
hello ryan just wanted to say thanks for this its really nice that you do this for people also i have a video tute of supermn by five for fighting if you want it so yeah, email me.
thanks again! btw more coldplay please!
<3 buzza
you say that you are pressing one note but really its not that not. and you need to go slower, so just keep practicing so you can get better like us
rock on
piano girl
HOLY SHIT YOUR TOOO FAST….
awesome..love dis
Amazing let me say :O
thank you that was great my mom and i went all over the web trying to find this song and the music and this was great my mom could not belive that i found the music and said this is a good site.
omg! thank yu!!
the corus
????
Hi Ryan,
This is great! A bit fast, but good. If you could give us the chorus that would be great!
Otherwise, you rock!
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