"Over The Rainbow" Playing Piano by Simple Chart (+Chart Download)
https://www.PianoGenius.com/rainbow/ (Download Chart PDF)
I created this chart by ear (listening to the song), this is the final version along with performance play-through. I hope you enjoy it, and please download the related PDF Chart if you'd like to experiment playing through it yourself.
(FYI, the Chart PDF also has some helpful explanations in it as well, about how to read through the chart, how to play "slash chords", the difference between Major-7 and dominant-7 chords, "repeat signs", 1st & 2nd endings, etc, so check out the Chart PDF for those tips as well. :-)
"Over The Rainbow" is such a great song! When I was looking for an existing chord chart, all I could find were really simplistic ones that didn't sound that great and were boring, or really jazzy versions that were overly complicated and kind of hard to understand.
I like to think that this chart I created splits the difference between too easy and too hard (alla "Goldilocks and The Three Bears", haha.) These types of straight-ahead chord charts are how I play songs, and if there's any other reminders I need, I just write them into the chord charts.
If you're interested, there's a full Module (10 videos) showing how I created the chord chart and wound up with this final one. In addition to seeing my first guesses at the chord changes, it also shows how I worked out the melody by ear and wrote down the note names to help me remember, and finally how I integrated those basic melody notes into the song chords that I'm playing.
This is the kind of piano training we do over at Piano Genius dot com, so if you're interested in being able to play your favorite songs without the drudgery and pain that it takes to try to learn a song from sheet music note-for-note, this IS the droid you're looking for.
Enjoy, and let me know what you think of the chord chart and/or performance. :-)
-Tim Gross