 Hi guys, this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music I'm here to share with you one of my favorite riffs from I guess my favorite rock band of all time Maybe even yours Queen. So let's learn another one bites the dust now I want to also mention that on our channel. We teach piano bass guitar and other instruments as well So if you want to learn the guitar version on the guitar rather the bass guitar, you can head over There's a video in the description. You don't have to watch the piano one But if you're a piano person and if you like Queen or this song or even if you don't take my word for it This is an amazing song. This is the best band ever Maybe the Beatles as well, but Queen man amazing band listen to them if you haven't already so we are going to learn the bass line of Another one bites the dust and we are going to also learn the right hand to play the chords as well as Exactly what's going on in the original song in terms of the verse in terms of the chorus Yeah, pretty much the whole song. So hopefully you can use this particular lesson to Play the entire song with your band or form one band maybe and Perform this you're not going to be playing the melody though Maybe you can sing the melody or you could rely on a band mate to sing the melody But this is a proper piano version of another one bites the dust with a riff in the left hand And chords and chord pattern in the right hand with all the correct Appropriate inversions as we hear in the original, right? 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We are on the key of F minor F minor has four flats a flat B flat D flat E flat F minor is very similar to the a flat major scale and what we find with rock songs Is we tend to always rely on playing music on the minor keys or the minor scales and this one is no different You see that more epic vibe and you that more emotional sound so this is on F minor scale F G a flat B flat C D flat E flat F But Queen are a very artistic group of musicians, so they leave the scale here and there they use parallel Transitions and all of that stuff so stick around. There's a lot of interesting theory also along the lines where they change scales It's not just F minor, but it's rooted on F. So it's pretty much F So let's first learn the riff and we'll play the riff in the left hand because it's a bass riff That's how it starts so it starts at the Pickup so that means it's before the one one e and a two e and a three and a four e and a one And a one Three Okay, let's break that down I am doing another one bites the dust, the second half, then we sing, another one bites the dust, another one, you don't need to do another one, that's not what the guitars play, another one bites the dust, so let's do that again, pick up, so pick up, one two three, of the end of the bar one, what are the, of the four of bar one, one E and a two E and a three and a four E and a one E and a one E and a two E and a three E and a repeat, okay that's the riff, maybe play it with both hands just to get acquainted, okay now in the right hand we are going to hold our chords, the first chord would be F minus 7th, so the way I'm voicing it in the right hand is to not play the F, I'm not playing the root, so I'm going C E flat A flat and that goes well with the bass line which anyways has the F, so C E flat A flat is my voicing in the right hand, okay we then go to F F minor 7th we'll then go to the B flat minor which I'm playing as D flat F B flat, okay it's a bit tricky to get that right hand to keep the pulse so initially perhaps you could just hold the chord down chords, maybe minims and semi-brieves, slowly build to the pulse, good independence exercises, a lot of things help, one is slow it down, you could even close your eyes when you play that tends to help me a lot and yeah let's do the verse now, the verse is pretty much what I just taught you, then you don't need to play, you don't have to do that, instead just pause it there with the rest so that freddy gets to do his thing, okay and then the part now this is beautifully composed there's a G sharp minor being played in the right hand not in the actual song, in the actual song there's no keys or piano so the way I'm voicing it is C flat E flat A flat C flat is nothing but B so and the left hand or the bass is going, the bass guitar in the actual song is playing first bar again I'm trying to hold the pulse or I could just do minims just to change the groove repeat let's now learn the turnaround so before the turnaround you have three bars of this one which I just played just to show you the breakdown third bar same as the first bar, fourth bar is not same as the second bar, the fourth bar would be so that's one on B flat minor one and you then have to do the E of the two one E and a two E and a three E and a four E E of the four very interesting one E and a two E and a three E and a four E and and back to the hook or back to the main bass line so whole pre-chorus you could call it or whole that play minims instead of crotchets another form of independence ending try to keep the pulse maybe in the right just for the turnaround back to the main riff okay the whole verse again super slow no need of that pickup hold the E of the four is very important so that's your entire verse so just to conclude the chorus has something very exciting at the end but again it's almost a carbon copy of what you played at the verse just a very very exciting chord at the chorus which makes it like an F Dorian it almost goes to a two minor a G minor at the end let's see how that goes now so the first half is just the same another one bites the dust repeat another one bites the dust now another one bites the dust now you do a G minor seventh in your right hand so instead of playing this is the very last cycle so instead of playing G minus like this I play a G minus seventh like this D F B flat without or sans G because the G is anyways in your left hand or in the bass so I voiced it like that I think that works okay one E and a two E and a three and a four one E and a two E and a three and a four those are the hits one E and a two E and a three and a four E and a one E and a two E and a three and slow it down one E and a these are the notes you may want to like compress your hand sort of like you're eating something with your hands one E and a two E and a three and a four and don't forget staccatos at the end and a two E and a three and a four E and a one E and a two E and a three and a four in the verse we ended with a we ended on the E of the four in the chorus you're ending on the on of the four so whole turnaround of the end of the chorus bummy and a two E and a three and a four E and a one E and a two E and a three and a four E and a okay with the right hand G minus seventh whole chorus now another one pick up new chord right guys so that was another one bites the dust we've covered the intro we've covered the verse the chorus all the chords and to the best of my knowledge what I could hear on the original recording and then after having tried to convert it on the piano I think this will work well in a band environment if you have to perform this with a group of musicians again there are supplementary resources on patreon as well as you can always learn this in greater detail with the midi files and if you'd like to learn more songs check out our playlist we have play great songs on piano so there are a lot of other songs out there which we've put out in that youtube playlist and if you'd want to learn a course in a more structured way in a very structured way rather head over to Nathanielschool.com you can choose either our video courses with pre-recorded material or you can consider joining our school and learning with me in person virtually as well as through offline workshops which we do regularly right guys thanks a ton for watching the video again this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music