love song (bareilles) tutorial 3

-Very- rough tutorial for Sara Bareilles' Love Song, part 3: the 'middle-eight' and end chorus riffs.

A better (slightly different) video of just the first verse riff (not this one) 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:
Dmin - D in bass
Amin - A in bass
Bbmaj - Bb in bass
Fmaj - F in bass
Cmaj - C in bass
Dmin - D in bass
Amin - A in bass
Bbmaj - Bb in bass
Fmaj - F in bass
Cmaj - C in bass
Dmin - D in bass
Amaj - A in bass
Bbmaj - Bb in bass
Cmaj - C in bass

...and then the chorus riffs are the same for part two, just repeated more often as shown.


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

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• sara
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• love
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[partyandahalf]

ur voice is actually quite good, be confident:D

[marrog]

Thanks - it's okay, I wasn't being modest about my voice or anything. I'm a decent singer (not brilliant, but decent) - the reason I'm quiet and not singing much in these vids is because I have a bad throat in them, not out of shyness. But thank you for the thought!

[ecarganonymous]

thanks so much for this! the sheet music i have for this song is missing the bridge so this was perfection. thanks again for taking the time to do this! much appreciated!

[mangagirllover14]

u saved my fucking life. thx u SOOO much for doing the ENTIRE song! i needed to know how to play this song for my chorus class cause we're going ot sing it.......for chorus.....so THX SO SO MUCH FOR DOING THIS!!!!!

[iKelryn]

thank you sooooooooo much! muahaha, now i brag to my friends that i can play it and THEY cant! ha!

[imbterthnu]

That ruled! I needed to know how to play the chorus and 2 bridges. Thanks for the lessons! Your piano playing and your voice, even though you your throat is bad, is AMAZING! Keep up the good work. P.S. I love your accent! lol

[beatboy08]

awesome job! Ur rly great teacher..

U should definitely do a cover of this and post it on YouTube!

[xobenotnobodyxo]

yeah, i know. people are like posting things that are all wrong and I am trying to play them and it sounds all wrong. why would someone post something that sounds horrible?!?!?!?!? Anyway, good job, yours is like, the only one that's actually right!!!

[AznMag15]

ohkay, all these vid.s are great!! im soo glad that someone would post this on youtube, i give ya props girl! Thanks :D

[mateocortez]

thanks for the bridge!

i can't find it anywhere!

[tmm6992]

thanks so much! i only found the first page of sheet music, you filled in the rest for me! thanks a lot!!! you are a great teacher!

[partyandahalf]

lol alright:)