 Hi guys this is Jason here from Nathaniel and let's learn Dil Hai Chotasa a great song by A.R. Rehman himself. So the entire song is pretty much on D major scale so it's important when you're figuring out the chords to first understand what are the available chords then anything you're going to play in the song is just going to be like a mashup or a jumbling of those chords. So D major let's just go through the scale and the chords once D major has seven notes as most scales have two sharps right F sharp and C sharp and the available chords are D major which is the one major G major which is the four major A major which is the five major then E minor which is the two minor F sharp minor which is the three minor and B minor which is our sixth minor and then you also have a diminished chord which is C sharp diminished which is rarely used in at least in pop songs you may not find it that useful or that much commonly used because it has a very evil kind of sound okay. So the song pretty much has about three parts then there are some interludes and there's a chanting part which is sung at sort of the ending of the song. So basically if you can just have a look at the chart I would advise you to maybe download this chord sheet while we are learning so then as we are playing the song together we can also figure out and point out which chords are happening where and anything marked in the blue color indicates the vocal parts and anything marked in the other color I am a little colorblind but whatever this color is is the non-vocal parts okay so just keep that in mind. So let's first start with the intro of the song and the intro of the song is going to set in motion a nice rhythm which you could follow on the piano or any instrument. Now the pattern which is adopted in the song is a very simple reggae pattern okay reggae is very popularized as we all know by Bob Mali himself and I am sure his music or that sort of idea of playing reggae has grown to the entire planet. So let's look at the popular reggae rhythm first and then try to apply it for all these chords of the song. So the rhythm is I am going to show you the rhythm on the D major chord. So it's an eighth note rhythm so you count one and two and three and four and so every and is going to be played on the piano right hand or on the guitar four and two and three and so every even on the guitar you could look at an upstroke to play the chord and to add some color in the left hand you could do one and two and three so a left hand can hit at every one and three let me count that again together one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and just for additional flavor you can even add the fifth of the chord at the three so you could do one and two three and four and two and two so basically one and three of the left hand playing the root pretty much or the root with the another note like the fifth and the right hand basically plays at every half beat or every and beat so if you divide the beat by two we say one and two and so every and comes here and that is pretty much the principle of reggae music generally reggae will stress on the the upbeats so if you listen to a lot of I would suggest here apart from this awesome song of course try to also listen to a lot of Bob Mali songs just to get the vibe of the rhythm right any composer who makes a song is obviously inspired by other songs as well so I guess a good starting point would be reggae music of Bob Mali okay we'll put some links in the description of some songs you guys should definitely check out okay so let's get to the main singing hook part so let's just see how that sounds and the chord changes happen in a slightly interesting and unique way so let's do it once together and then we'll try and break it down slow it down and whatnot okay one two so again remember the rhythm will not change for the whole song so the rhythm I'm playing is that consistent reggae groove it may change maybe only at that last chanting part which here M1 sings okay okay let's do the verse a one two start right so let's break that down so you have stay on D D sus sorry D dominant 7 that's a cool chord let's figure that out so if you observe you have D played for two beats one two a four D two three four D two a four D two D sus sorry D seventh so let's see how to form all these chords first this is D major A D F sharp I'm just choosing this inversion because that's what I'm hearing in the song and then that's D that's D again D this is D7 so basically you add the C to the same mixture so already you have D major which is a D F sharp and you're adding the C okay let's do this once more with nupur the and hear it with the singing to little slower so now the chords change which is G G major so A minor is a very interesting chord because it's not really part of the D major scale you'd normally have a major right but I've circled it just to show you that yeah you can be a little bit creative as well you don't have to play chords off that scale these are what we call as borrowed chords okay so let's look at that part again or the pre of the pre-chorus okay let's look at the ending there's a quick A and a quick D right A D so the last two chords are played quite fast and it repeats and you stay on D there D is long and when you repeat it you first repeat the whole thing once as I've written there and after that you just repeat the first line once and then you move into the other parts like the interlude the flute solo is there and there's a bunch of things in this song there's a lot of instrumental bits as well which are quite nice as well okay so let's do this whole thing once more the whole section the worst pre-chorus is this whole drill and then I think the whole song is like I would say 60 to 70% done okay come on one two go oh okay A D that thing at the end has to happen okay so then what happens then it goes to all your interludes and all that before we do it let's just look at the beginning of the song which has this nice flute interlude as well so let's try to do that before we move into verse two so you go so then the singing part comes so let's look at those chords that's D two three four this is a very use very cool chord he's playing E minor seventh here so that's B D E G okay so if you don't know how to form it it's okay just play this way which I'm playing now it'll be easy for you so this D major A D F sharp this is E minor seven four note chord and the left hand you don't have to bother just stick with D that's why I wrote E minor seventh slash D that means the left hand or the bass guitar or the bass stays the same so you do and the fourth beat you need to do A major so it's three rounds of this chord and then one round of the A so D so D three four so at the four you play A major let's do that again four right so now if you do the the flute intro if you want to play it on the keyboard well the notes are written down there and then goes to that other part right so the flute tune again and then so it's almost the same each line right and now let's do the verse two the singing verse two however there's like a interesting flute interlude which happens all through right so I've written down the chords there in our lesson we are going to mainly focus on the vocal parts but please note that the other chords are also available for the other sections which you could download so let me just quickly do that in fast forward so so right so then it goes to that other verse two right so let's look at the chords that's the flute bit ta na na na na that's E minor A major E minor to the A major going to the next verse okay so let's do the verse two together with the vocals and let's see how we can figure out the chords oh one two verse two so okay let's break that down quite easy right D major na na na na E minor na na na na na na na D major na na na na E minor na na na na na okay so just note that E minor to A major happens very fast so na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na E minor D E minor na na na na na na and now let's do the next part okay let's do the whole thing two three go oh and now the next part D it continues right so let's break that down na na na G stop on A so I've written that part down here and stop you stop on that A chord so D goes back to the hook so I think that's pretty much the two vocal parts and then we go to like a nice chant part at the end I'll just tell you a little bit about the chords before we do it with the vocals that's that that part so if you see the chords which are written down here every chord seems to have a D base which is the root or the saw of the song so basically you keep that D base and then play a toggle between the one which is D major then the four which is the G major and D five which is the A major so you have all these interesting sounds so it's like G major like you've never heard before because it's G major with the D in the bottom or A major normally we play A major with A but here he's playing A major with D which is quite interesting right so let's do it with the vocals and then we'll try and break it down one two three go back to D it goes to like another instrumental part so that's A and then G with D base back to D base G with D base so that's D quickly changing to A and then G remember all these chords in the chanting part all have D in the bass okay so just remember to download the chord chart so that you can follow it while we are doing it and perhaps pause the lesson if you want to get used to each section because this song clearly has a lot of sections right so we've done the main hook or the verse one then the verse two which happens after that flute bit then the intro but what keeps everything in common is sort of that reggae rhythm that pretty much is the rhythm pattern for the whole song so have fun playing this song and jam it with your friends and yeah have fun cheers