How to Play 'The Winner Takes it All' by ABBA

How to Play 'The Winner Takes it All' by ABBA - Song Tutorial

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11 ай бұрын

This is a detailed tutorial on 'The Winner Takes It All' by ABBA
Here's a link to the sheet music:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Vlv_...
#ABBA #poppiano

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@davejblair 21 күн бұрын

'They're tonicising the ... minor chords with secondary dominants' I need to slip this quote into casual conversations a lot more.

@christianklikovits 21 күн бұрын

It's guaranteed to elicit baffled looks from unsuspecting guests at your dinner party 🙂

@786emjay 6 ай бұрын

The best instructional video I have seen on KZfaq, 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.

@christianklikovits 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, I really appreciate that 🙏

@yorgossmak 19 сағат бұрын

This is the perfect lesson for understanding everything behind the musical idea… Thanks a lot…❤

@christianklikovits 19 сағат бұрын

🙏

@afai264 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the sheet music, this is next on my list to learn!

@christianklikovits 4 ай бұрын

Godspeed 🙂🤘

@claudiomb8 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the explain!!!

@maepascual1037 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for explaining the dynamics of piano playing. More power.

@christianklikovits 5 ай бұрын

🙏

@melistatar4295 3 ай бұрын

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!!

@christianklikovits 3 ай бұрын

Thank you, Melis, I appreciate that 🙏

@alexzharkov3351 4 ай бұрын

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.

@christianklikovits 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, Alex! I really appreciate the encouragement 🙏🙏

@olufjakobsen6208 4 ай бұрын

Wow I love ABBA, I must learn this song on piano😊

@semyonboyk0 11 ай бұрын

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.

@christianklikovits 11 ай бұрын

Exactly! 🙏

@Jo-ot6tk 7 ай бұрын

Excellent tutorial. The best I've seen yet. Thank you so much Christian. Happy New Year!

@christianklikovits 7 ай бұрын

Thank you, Jo, i really appreciate that! Happy New Year to you, as well 🎉

@fabiancosster2992 11 ай бұрын

This is amazing very good keep posting more videos like this

@christianklikovits 11 ай бұрын

Thank you, Fabian!

@dmgsoultogetherness6667 26 күн бұрын

love the left hand changes

@jusimarwan 3 ай бұрын

Best piano tutorial video I have ever seen.. love it.. ❤👍

@christianklikovits 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, Jusi, I appreciate that 🙏

@jusimarwan 3 ай бұрын

@@christianklikovits no, I thank you 🙏

@yulitag9390 8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! Very smartly!

@christianklikovits 8 ай бұрын

Thank you, Yulita 🙏

@Klufravan 4 ай бұрын

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👍.

@christianklikovits 4 ай бұрын

Yes, I've seen some footage of Benny and Bjorn jamming in their little cottage 🤘

@Stanpianoman-zs7gy 8 ай бұрын

I love that group ABBA.

@christianklikovits 8 ай бұрын

So do I 🤘

@westfield90 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic

@christianklikovits 9 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@amineandalous 8 ай бұрын

Awesome

@christianklikovits 8 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@alexalexandre4108 7 ай бұрын

Great video! Thanks

@christianklikovits 7 ай бұрын

🙏😀

@broncobilly4029 2 ай бұрын

I'm w/CK. It takes a real man to admit he likes Abba. This is a great song. :)

@christianklikovits 2 ай бұрын

😀🙏

@teke0609 4 ай бұрын

❤ 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.

@christianklikovits 4 ай бұрын

Muchas gracias, Alberto! I really appreciate it 🙏

@lorenzofailla5302 18 күн бұрын

Thanks for this

@christianklikovits 17 күн бұрын

🙏

@jorgecueva3105 5 ай бұрын

Vc é um grande mestre e estou encantado com sua técnica e didática muito obrigado eu amo está música um abraço desde o Brasil 🇧🇷

@christianklikovits 5 ай бұрын

Muito obrigado, Jorge, eu realmente aprecio isso 🙏

@bakarneurizarbarrena4475 9 ай бұрын

Fantástico !!!!! Desde España

@christianklikovits 9 ай бұрын

Muchas gracias! 😀🙏

@datavision08 4 ай бұрын

Excelente, muy clarito.Iam happy and suscribe. Right now...

@christianklikovits 4 ай бұрын

Muchas gracias, Pirata 🙏

@user-jd1xz7im6t 8 ай бұрын

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@christianklikovits 7 ай бұрын

매우 감사합니다 🙏

@kevingodding9316 6 ай бұрын

Fantastic 👍👍👍

@christianklikovits 6 ай бұрын

Thank you, Kevin, much appreciated 🙏

@juandavidleguizamonlopez8759 5 ай бұрын

Thanks you for share sheet

@christianklikovits 5 ай бұрын

No problem, Juan, my pleasure!

@yulitag9390 26 күн бұрын

thant you VERY*100 much!

@norbertbarry4192 4 ай бұрын

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. :)

@cripzrus 6 ай бұрын

So glad I found you Christian. Immediate sub.

@christianklikovits 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, I really appreciate that 🙏

@cripzrus 6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@-non-savvyauteurist 2 ай бұрын

A fantastic lesson for an ingenious song. Corny? Yeah, well, only if you understand and can feel very little.

@sugargirl9650 4 ай бұрын

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

@mayalebau 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Christian for the excellent explanation. Any chance of sharing the piano sheet?

@christianklikovits 6 ай бұрын

Hi Maya, here it is drive.google.com/file/d/1Vlv_oaSolRl3_6YD7VplyjazFHBAy4Pd/view?usp=drive_link

@mayalebau 6 ай бұрын

Thank you Christian!

@christianklikovits 6 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@evennorthug2585 11 ай бұрын

Man enough :D Klikovitz for President!

@christianklikovits 11 ай бұрын

I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm still learning how to govern my own self properly 😀🤘

@kpsalado 7 ай бұрын

☀🤗

@christianklikovits 7 ай бұрын

Klausi!! 🤟

@minxi9646 13 күн бұрын

Do you have a synthesia version og this? Or can you make one?

@christianklikovits 13 күн бұрын

Sorry, I'm not familiar with that....

@mickamourkova8533 4 ай бұрын

Hi, amazing tutorial with chords explanation. But I need permission to the document. Thanks

@christianklikovits 4 ай бұрын

Here it is: drive.google.com/file/d/1Vlv_oaSolRl3_6YD7VplyjazFHBAy4Pd/view?usp=sharing

@sandralaperna9471 2 ай бұрын

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

@christianklikovits 2 ай бұрын

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...

@sandralaperna9471 2 ай бұрын

@@christianklikovits Hi Christian, thank you so much for your response. Your videos are amazing. Many greetings from Germany. Sandra

@christianklikovits 2 ай бұрын

@@sandralaperna9471 Vielen Dank, Sandra!

@user-lb4gp9gn1c 5 ай бұрын

I tried clicking the link but it needs permission

@christianklikovits 5 ай бұрын

Should be working now…

@user-lb4gp9gn1c 5 ай бұрын

@@christianklikovits THANK YOU!!

@pau_gm 8 ай бұрын

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 🤍

@jkristia9478 6 ай бұрын

my thoughts exactly. please please another video for the entire song. It is so beautiful.

@marcservais8314 3 ай бұрын

shame that it is not in the original key

@christianklikovits 3 ай бұрын

Hi Marc, here's the chart in F#, maybe that helps: drive.google.com/file/d/1lrnmm4-DfzHagf0j5KNACtLR9MoYdjpj/view?usp=drive_link

@marcservais8314 3 ай бұрын

@@christianklikovits Hi Christian, it is very kind of you. I do like your tuto.

@damienx0x 2 ай бұрын

It's only one semitone off ffs.

@denyshenriquez-ohme7373 9 ай бұрын

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....

@christianklikovits 9 ай бұрын

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

@denyshenriquez-ohme7373 9 ай бұрын

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

@christianklikovits 9 ай бұрын

@@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...

@denyshenriquez-ohme7373 9 ай бұрын

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

@brunobinet2909 8 ай бұрын

@@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.