 Hi guys so let's learn Mad World by Tears for Fears and the entire songs on the you could say E flat major scale but actually due to the way the chords are aligned in the song you could say the F Dorian which is a mode of the E flat major scale. So Dorian scale is generally the second degree or the second mode from any major scale so it borrows the same notes and also the same chords from that parent major scale. So if you take E flat major three flats right E flat F G A flat B flat C D E flat and F Dorian will be born from the F or the second note of the E flat scale so you go and the first chord itself of the song Mad World is F minor so it's on the two minor so it's very it's a very Dorian sound okay and just to make the Dorian sound sound very unique you definitely have the six natural as well as the three flat so if I build F Dorian now you'll have F G A flat which is the flat three normal four B flat normal five C that's a major sixth so normally in a minor scale you'll be like but that makes it natural minor right to make it Dorian you do the six natural and you need to use that a bit in the song which is what happens back to E flat which is the seventh flat so to form F Dorian all you need to know is E flat major starting from the second mode and the chords of the scale remain the same you'll have E flat A flat and B flat being the major chords E flat A flat B flat and you'll have F minor G minor and C minor being the minor chords F minor G minor and C minor and then the diminished which is D diminished if ever you use right so let's get into each section of the song there are in total four sections but actually two unique chord progression so once you learn both the unique chord progressions we'll also do the guitar and the piano hook which happens a lot in the song the intro at the outro and everywhere else right so let's get started so you have first of all the verse I'm going to talk about okay what happens there F minor A flat major E flat major B flat major and that repeats into four and there's a nice style you can play it on you can just do it left hand right hand left hand playing the root of the chord and then right hand playing the chords you can do goes on four times okay and then the next part of the song is the pre-chorus so it's the same rhythm and for the pre-chorus basically you're going to be following these chords F minor B flat major F minor and B flat major these chords work also the same way for the chorus where you sing mad world the same chords and then you go the intro or the the hook same thing so the only place where the chords are not F minor B flat major toggle is in your verse which I just showed you okay so the pre-chorus is right and whenever you go mad world whenever it comes to the chorus you can overlay the tune in the right hand with the chords in the left hand so what we do there is we need to play that same right hand left hand right hand thing with only the left hand because the right hand will have to play the tune right and then you play the tune just play that again only the right hand line one I've written it down here so you have so that's C G A flat F G E flat D B flat but this B flat would already come with the left hand I'll show you right let's repeat that again and I've also marked out the second line starting note A flat which you guys need to play at the off beat so you go so that needs to be at the off beat and three and four so that's pretty much the song guys so you have basically two sections the verse where you go F minor A flat major E flat major B flat major then in the chorus you're doing mad world which is just F minor B flat major and wherever you have to you you overlay the chords of the chorus with the tune and the entire songs on F Dorian which is a really cool scale or mode as we call it derived from the E flat major so I hope you guys have some fun playing the song it's an amazing piece of music have a blast cheers