 Hi guys, so let's learn Skyfall by Adele on the piano and the song is basically on C minor. There are roughly three sections. You will have the verse repeating quite often like that this is the end and so on and then of course the part where she sings skyfall and the skyfall that's like this very epic part right. So what I'm going to do in this tutorial is I'm going to give you the actual chords of the song but while doing it I'm also going to try and give you the easier versions of it which don't include seventh chords and ninth chords and other extended harmony which is beyond the triads. So a triad is nothing but three notes right which build a chord. You have the root, you have the third and the fifth. So for the most part you can get away with playing the song with these triads however there are also some other alterations and some embellishments to the chord. You get chords like that and then there's a bridge also which happens obviously once in the part. A lot of these chords and you know stuff like that. So I'm going to give you the original version which I was able to hear to the best of my ability as well as the simplified version whenever I think it's getting a little bit challenging. So do stay tuned and follow along. So let's first do the verse part. So the verse is basically for those of you playing the chords even guitarist you can follow the note sheet which I have there. You'll see there's C minor, Ab major, F major and F minor. So these are the chords and you have an F minor seventh if you know what a seventh is, else you can just play F minor. So these are the chords for the first sorry for the first three cycles of the verse or the first three bars of the verse. The fourth bar we go into the next part so that happens three times and the fourth bar we go into this section C minor slash D that means you'll be playing D in the bass and C minor in the as a normal chord and then you have a suspended chord, G sus 4 I'll show you that and then G major and anything written with these yellow brackets means that the chord is played or these two chords are played over four counts or over one bar. So that means in most most most likelihood this would be twice or two counts. This would also be two counts similarly C minor for two. So this is the A flat F F minor and so on and so forth. So let's just break it down and I'll play you the chords first C minor A flat major F minor F minor C minor A flat major F major F minor however what the piano plays in verse one is this so it's quite easy actually if you think about it I've written it down in the purple colors basically E flat and C together E flat and the high C so you just hit that with the pulse of the song or as quarter notes and in the left hand you can play the base notes of the song namely C A flat F and stay on F and try to follow my thumb of the left hand it's basically playing the eighth notes which are against or off the beat right one and two and three and next and so on however the last hit of the F minor happens even more off the beat so this is the normal version and then so if you're counting in 16th notes this would be at the E of the four one E and two E and three E and four E so that's pretty much your pattern for three bars of every verse this is okay then it goes to C minor in the right hand and this is how I'm hearing it in the original E flat GC the first inversion of C minor right E flat GC and in your base you don't play C as you would normally play C minor you play C minor with a D in the base that adds clearly as you can hear it's adding a lot of tension right okay so basically the first three lines of the verse you play what I taught you earlier just E flat and C in the right hand C A flat F F in the left hand okay with that interesting thumb rhythm and one more time we break that down the last bar one just observe the last it's a G sus four chord so G sus four will be basically a major chord where you take the major third and move it up to a fourth in the original he plays an inversion so it sounds like this is the melody line like okay the name of the chord would be G sus four to G major two counts per chord right so feel the okay let me just show you the entire verse and pardon my singing it's basically just to give you an idea right so let's go this is the so that's your entire verse one so the second verse the piano what I've written in this red area if you see in that verse the piano in addition to these hits which is just basically E flat and C what I've heard is the piano is basically adds like the James Bond theme which I'm sure you know right and so on so you get that James Bond flair and obviously this is a James Bond song so you need to have that right so the second verse what you do different than the first verse is instead of just playing E flat and C you add the James Bond theme perhaps with these fingers so earlier you did you're just adding those middle notes which is G A flat A and back to A flat so let's do that and the left hand stays exactly the same the right hand also the extreme notes stay the same is just the middle notes which move which is why I wrote F minor seven because it actually forms that F minor seventh chord right your first verse that doesn't change and now we go to the chorus so the chorus I'm just gonna break it down just to understand how the chord changes happen so the the chords which I'm going to circle right now are basically the important chords which you need to play that's C minor A flat major F minor and then you need to do this part D minor and G and then the second time they go to F and then D seventh and G so these last two chords you need to get right however the ones which I circled are your main chords and the ones which I did not circle are the passing chords now the passing chords are very easy to play you just have to remain with the main chord and change the bass so let me just show you this section in the sky four three four so at the four you drift to B flat in the in the base or in the left hand and that's also what the bass instruments either the cello or that entire orchestra section is doing they are going or drifting to the B flat so that passes to the next chord which is a flat right so and you do three counts of C minor and the fourth count is also C minor but C minor with a B flat bass let's see how that sounds okay so now you go to an A flat major seventh so an A flat major seventh is nothing but an A flat with an additional major seven so that's a G A flat C E flat G could perhaps write this down A flat C E flat G and the way I am voicing it on the piano is in the right hand I am just playing C E flat and G because my A flat anyway comes in the bass right so if I add A flat here tends to sound a bit muddy so I so this is how it's actually voiced I think in the song so it's basically you can look at it like a C minor with an A flat or an A flat major seventh with a flat in the left hand C E flat G in the right hand so in the sky four okay that's a C minor seventh with a G in the bass okay so I guess you guys got C minor and then C minor with B flat now you should be able to get A flat major seventh with a C minor seventh forward slash G if you're not sure about the chord symbols just try to follow me playing I'm sure you'll get it because I'm sure you've all heard the song so it's easy to follow with the singing part and the score four C minor seventh with G and the second half of the chorus has this line first and then it has this line second so that's F minor seventh okay so that's F minor seventh this is how I'm playing it the notes for F minor seventh would be F A flat C E flat I'm voicing it like this with F in the bass and then we take it we climb it down F minor seventh then the bass changes to E flat and it comes back to this line the first chord C minor so let's do the whole first line of the chorus minus seven flat five this is how you play D minor seven flat five and D minor seven flat five basically is like a D diminished chord with a minor seventh that's C on the top so D minor seventh with a C on the top and this is your G seventh so and that's like a very popular two five progression the two five of the C minor scale generally two five goes back to one so it's a great way to sort of repeat the line it's like a very epic way also to do it okay so let's just do the second half of the chorus and now the whole line F major that makes it very positive and that's F major with an E flat okay so again you drift to E flat and that's like a very dissonant sound that's what the orchestra sort of playing they're doing a D majors or D dominant seventh which is D F sharp A and C and then you end with G seventh minus the G because I'm playing the G here okay so let's do the whole second line of the chorus back to your verse progression with that James Bond vibe right then another verse happens let's just do the entire chorus once and yeah just follow along I'll try to do it slowly and if you have any doubts try to write these chords down and try to write the notes of every chord down so that you are playing it you know the right way and when I started with chords it was more about the sound of the chord so the symbol of the chord can always reach you later it's the sound which matters more and how you play it so as long as you can play it and you understand the sound and you feel the vibe of what you're doing I think eventually the symbols will start catching up with you guys right so don't pay that much attention to the chord symbols yes it is confusing even for me but I think if when you understand that this that this sounds good with the song you're going to play it and then you'll find other songs like that and since the sound enters your system is just a matter of naming it with a simple chord symbol right so the chord symbol is just a means to simplify the chord otherwise you'll have to write down all the notes and stuff like that which becomes tough right so let's just do the chorus once more and then I think we just have one more part which is the bridge right and the bridge basically has two sections one where she does this and so on so that part is entirely C minor okay in fact I don't think the piano is there that often so it's more the orchestra but you can just hold a C minor at the bridge until it reaches the point where she actually starts singing the melody of that bridge so so I've added this diminished chord as well C diminished so perhaps at the end of the bar you could add the diminished chord okay and then lastly the singing part okay so let's break down that section so that's F minor seventh add the nine so basically you can play A flat C E flat and G in the right hand with an F bass here okay the second chord it's optional if you're not sure of playing this chord you can just play F minor and go immediately to A flat major right so that's a passing chord whenever you see a 3 plus 1 it means this is a passing chord for that so even if you don't play this as a newcomer to the piano it's it should be good enough right so okay that's B diminished seventh as we call it with a G bass so that creates a lot of tension right goes to A flat major with an additional sixth that makes it an A flat major sixth chord again if you're not sure of adding the sixth just play A flat major and that should be fine okay that's a very nice sounding chord that's E flat major with a B flat bass in the left hand and now that's E flat over B flat B flat right B flat bass now three four and the four you do G with B C minor and then C minor with B flat bass passing G which I wrote in red F minor then passing E flat and then that D minor seventh that D minor seven flat five which I showed you at the chorus ending with G major you can even add a G seventh if you know it okay so let's just do this entire singing part of the bridge so it's an awesome song for the piano um yeah so if you followed till the end of this video which I I'm sure you have since you're watching it there's also that intro which you have to figure out what to do right there's a string build up and a crescendo with lots of this orchestral drumming and bass sections so just follow along just for that intro part so you can just hold this chord so this is a C minor so C minor and just find a way to fit a D very beginning the pianist does that roll D C G E flat so you can either play it like by crossing or with your pinky if your pinky is weak you can perhaps do it with your middle finger and perhaps hold down the pedal so all those sounds come together and then you may want to lift it and then as I taught you the worst part which is the same as the intro part before she starts singing so you either go or it's just like a trill okay and at the beginning perhaps start like that so this is my understanding if you will of this famous song skyfall by Adele again I've demonstrated it on the piano but if you're a guitar player or any other instrumentalist do try and figure out the chords there are some amazing chords and pretty much all the James Bond theme songs are awesome right from the very beginning so you definitely have that James Bond vibe very orchestral and the chords since the theme is very very epic and very movie like you know the chords are definitely going to add a lot more character it's not going to be the same major and minor chords so this tutorial was I'm sure a little bit longer than the usual ones but yeah there were a lot of chords to talk about and if you have any doubts or any questions regarding the formation of the chords do try and send us a comment and we'll be happy to respond at the earliest cheers don't forget to like subscribe hit that bell icon for notifications leave us a comment for any other video you'd like us to do next and don't forget to share the video with all your musician friends cheers