love song (bareilles) tutorial 1

-Very- rough tutorial for Sara Bareilles' Love Song, part 1: the main verse riff.

A better (slightly different) video of just this bit can be found here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8c4UgyfnTXc

If there's demand for it I can upload a better version when I have (a) a voice and (b) access to a decent camera again - this is recorded on a phone!

EDIT: These chords are written out to further clarify the vid. I'm not a guitar theorist. Some of them are wrong. But since there's now a series of people who felt the need to tell me so, I figured I'd better -leave- them wrong so readers could make sense of the comment thread. Let me repeat: I'm trying to help. This video is to save you working out the stuff I did. If it's helpful, great. If it's not, could you move along already? Because honestly I get way too easily sucked into internet arguments and I just don't have the energy...

Chords for this section, for the record are, in order:
Gmin - G in bass
Fmaj - A in bass
Bbmin dim3rd (or something) - Bb in bass - I keep saying B in the vid but I mean Bb
Cmaj - C in bass
Dmin - D in bass
Cmaj - E in bass
Fmaj - F in bass
F#min - F# in bass

For the record, when I say 'bass' I mean the left hand, not the chord position. Some of these chords are played first or second inversion. You can use your common sense here - you can probably work out the inversions I've used from the vid.

NOTE: In these videos the song is played an octave higher than it should be, because I forgot to transpose down on the keyboard.

part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyl-99MR1xA
part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTXsS0Mc8Pc

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• tutorial
• sara
• bareilles
• love
• song
• piano

[sapphireguitar09]

this is probably the most difficult song i have ever tried to play. i tried to learn from crazyasianpiano a thousand times and i still can't get it. it is a finger workout.

[marrog]

Honestly, it's really straightforward once you memorise the different sections and get the hang of the way the left and right hands alternate - stick at it. Learning stuff the challenges you is the only way to improve.

[mileyyroxblahblah]

hey could you give me the cords on piano please message me back [please both left and right hand thanks]

[marrog]

Click 'more' on the vid info. If you need more comprehensive description than that I'd probably suggest buying the sheet music.

[DemiBabe11]

can i have the chords please ?

[marrog]

They're in the vid info.

[SuuhvannahDuuuh]

thank you

=]

[hoingyman]

i can play it now thanks a butt load :)

[gymboy1011]

dont hold the octaves

[krislyng08]

i like your accent!

[Timsee40]

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[marrog]

It's not, it's a Bbsus2 - it is a second inversion though, yes. Read below for more on this.