 Hi guys, Jason here from Nathaniel School of Music, let's learn Kingston Town by UB40. So the entire song is sort of, actually not sort of, it's very much a reggae, standard reggae groove and it's on a flat major. So before I take you through the chords of each section of the song like I normally do, let's just look at the pattern first which you can play if you're a pianist and if you're a non-pianist also you can look at the pattern shape. So I'm just going to take the root chord, A flat major right and basically the pattern is you need to engage with your left hand and then the right hand. So it's just left and right hand interchanged. So let's see how the pattern works, I'll play it and then I'll slow it down and break it down. So if you're counting 8th notes which is 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and where 8th notes are essentially dividing the beat into 2. So 1 and 2 and you take all the 8th notes and play them in the right hand and you take all the on-beat notes and play them in the left hand. On-beat basically meaning 1, 2, 3, 4. So the idea is it'll be 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and. So all the ands are going to be played in the right hand, 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and in the left hand what we normally will do for a reggae pattern is you can play it at the 1 as well as the 3. You can ignore the 2 in the left hand, 1 and 2 and 3, 3 and 4, 1 and 2 and 3 and just for variety you can do 1 at the root of the chord, you can do 3 at the 5th of the chord. Let's see how that works. 1, 2 and 3 and 4 and 1, 2 and 3 and 4 and 1. And what you'd also want in the right hand is to play it very staccato right or if you're on a guitar you'll have to like mute it really fast. So let's see how that sounds. And if you want you can also add this ghost note, what we call as ghost notes where you play the 5th, 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and so essentially instead of counting 8th notes you guys then need to count 16th notes, 1 and 1 or 1e you know you're playing these off beat 16th notes. So where am I playing this ghost note? I think it's at the E of the 2, E and 2e, yeah it's at the E of the 2, 1e and 2. So you don't have to get this if you're newer to the piano but if you practice to a point where the other pattern I taught you was easy then you can just focus on adding to what you learned earlier. And the ghost note is basically the 5th of each chord. So the 5th of A flat is E flat. And another thing to note is in my left hand I don't play anything other than the root of the chord and the 5th of the chord if it's a ghost note or if it's at beat number 3. However in the right hand we can use all the respective inversions so that your hand is close by and you don't have to regularly swap. So for example if I take you through the intro section. And so on. So try to use inversions and either you play the chord as a triad. You can make it sound bigger by just copying the bottom note to the top. So if you take A flat major which I prefer starting like this C, E flat and A flat I can add the C as well to make it thicker and remember to play staccato. So let's just go through each section of the song. Anyway the chord chart is there for you guys to check download and access but anyway. So if you take the verse it's A flat C minor D flat major E flat major D flat major E flat major A flat major and E flat major right. So that's line 1 and then line 2 will repeat the exact same thing and then you end on A flat major A flat major. So let me just take you through the whole thing and while I play I'll count out the chords. So that's starting with A flat let's take it slightly slowly A flat. C minor, D flat, E flat, D flat, E flat, A flat and E flat and then you repeat the same line, D flat, stay on A flat. So that's the second line where you stay on A flat and then where we go to a bridge or a pre-chorus if you will where he sings Kingston Town and you change the chords to C minor which I've pointed out here. So that's C minor, F minor, G minor, C minor, F minor and then an interesting bass drop or an interesting bass slide which I'm going to do that's where your bass will change in the left hand and then B flat minor, B flat major it's a very interesting section E flat major, E flat major. So let's look at the pre-chorus C minor, F minor, C minor, so that's quite interesting right he goes F minor in the right hand throughout in the right hand you're going to be doing F minor. So you go F minor with F bass and then you do F minor with E bass, F minor, E flat, D okay that's the entire progression here you can even do it in the octave in the left hand F, E, E flat, D so he sings something like na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na and then B flat minor, B flat major, E flat major and then we go back to the verse right and so on right and it's probably a little faster no I think I'm playing it pretty much at the same speed and in conclusion so basically you have the verse part you have the bridge part or the pre-chorus part and then you have an intro section where you have the tune and then you have a bridge where that same tune repeats and then at the end of the song we just go we just repeat that phrase waiting in Kingston town so and repeats so that's what I've written down here D flat, E flat, A flat, F so these four chords you need to play at the end so let's conclude with that catchy tune which happens pretty much throughout the song and the tune is sort of the singing line of the vocalist so it's very easy to remember and I'm sure you all would have heard it and it's quite catchy right so this is how the tune goes let's look at it okay so you basically do the chords in the left hand let me first show you without the chords so you can try this out this is your left hand pattern and then the tune coming in right and if you can't do both hands you can probably just do it with one hand until you get comfortable or you can just hold the chord and the chords are A flat, C minor, D flat major and E flat major at the intro as well as the bridge where the same tune repeats so it's pretty much the singing line so I've written down the song on A flat major which is actually a little tricky scale well not tricky it's just a seldomly used scale so if you need to do it on A major or D major all you have to do is rewrite the scale and rewrite the chords transpose the chords on whichever scale you want you can watch one of my lessons on preparing the chords for a song so that talks about transposition using inversions and so on and so forth right so all the best playing this song cheers