Barry Manilow's "Mandy" Song Performance (Cover) + Chart Reading Tips

This is my performance of the song "Mandy", I've always loved this song and I'm playing it from a simple chord chart as opposed to note-for-note sheet music. I hope you enjoy the performance, and you'll also get some chart-reading tips, like:

How to follow "repeat" signs
What do do with "1st & 2nd endings"
How to read and play "slash chords"
How to play "triangle-7 chords" like A△7 (spoiler alert: A△7 is the same chord as Amaj7, which means you play a 1-3-5 Major triad and also add the 7th note of the A Major scale (which is G#), meaning an A△7 is A-C#-E-G#
We'll also deal with the "Manilow Modulation"... A song modulation usually happens at the end during the final choruses, and the key of the song goes up usually by a whole step, sometimes by a half step. Barry Manilow uses these song Modulations so much that I've heard it called the "Manilow Modulation", haha.

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Unlike traditional piano lessons, my focus is on understanding WHY you're playing certain notes and chords, because understanding the structure of how music goes together makes it no longer feel like random wrote memorization because when you can SEE the music patterns in the chords and the notes, you can make sense of it because it's all completely logical.

That's what I mean by "piano genius" by the way... Once you know these music formulas and patterns that you can apply to virtually any popular song or chord progression and everything "clicks", you'll be ready to take on anything. :-) Hope you enjoy this performance.

0:00 Intro explaining chart details
0:44 Mandy Performance starts
0:53 Major 7 chords explained
1:02 Now to rewrite "11" chords as slash chords
1:09 Slash chords explanation
1:53 "1st Ending" in chart
2:03 Following the repeat signs
2:41 "2nd Ending" in chart
3:15 Song Modulation (moves up to a different key)
3:51 Wrap-up