 So let's learn this song so far away by the band avenge sevenfold So it's a bit weird that I'm teaching you on the piano because there isn't a piano in the song. It's very heavy distortion guitar, but yeah, it's a nice song and I don't play guitar so it's I'm gonna share the song on the piano and if you're a keyboardist you could You could play it and have some fun perhaps not on a piano patch But on a synth patch or some heavy organ patch If you're a guitar player, you can watch this one to learn the chords and make sure you're playing the right chords And a lot of the chords I tell you will be power chords in the sense I may write E minor and Show you E minor here But actually the guitar player in the song at least one of the guitar players in the song is playing like a very deep Power chord so power chord is built using the root the fifth and you double it double the root with an octave Now the reason why power chord sound so powerful one one reason is it's played Down below the sound is definitely a lot heavier and If you were to play things like minor chords or major chords down below It's going to make the sound very cluttered or very muddy Which is why power chords work in a rock band or in a heavy in a metal band or in a progressive band, right? So you could play the normal major or the minor chords, but try to play that on the higher registers Somewhere here on the piano. We try to play it around middle C And if you're playing power chords Try to play it in the lower registers Anyway, so I'm just going to go through all the chord progressions as you can see there's a verse There's a pre chorus and a chorus so these three things are the core of the first What do you say the first maybe three minutes of the song, right? And then it loops and after that the song goes Really crazy it goes to a bridge where you have E major and a lot of other things going on You have chords which are even out of the scale which I'll talk about and then you have a really amazing outro So he doesn't really come back to the chorus part. He goes to the To all sorts of parts in the bridge However, after the bridge is over, you'll also have a guitar solo and you have two really amazing guitar solos Which you guys could check out if any of you want we can perhaps transcribe that in another video And you can learn a bit more from it. However in this video, we're just going to go through the chords and the basic rhythm structure right, so let's start with the verse Which is a very droney kind of sound the song is on E minor and borrows the chords from the parent scale Which is G major scale so you go So that's E minor and then E minor with an add to so an add to meaning It makes it very I don't know Pink Floyd ish a lot of Pink Floyd songs have that sort of sound a lot of progressive bands also have that dream theater and and the like Okay, so that's the same old E minor But you need to figure out a way to add the two the two from E is F sharp right the major second not Not the minor to that's gonna sound very very dissonant Again, oh, sorry the first one is normally minor And G He does an interesting accent there with the drummer on B minor and see where you go one and two and three and four That's B minor C Okay, let me show you that So that's G major and D major played together in the time of four beats, so that's two counts for G Na na na two counts for D and then B minor going to C is in this interesting rhythm Which I've notated here one and two one and two and three and hold So on Let's just do the whole verse and it repeats into two then goes to the pre chorus Which is really simple C and D which sort of builds up the excitement to the chorus One more time E minor E minor add to G D B minor C and then the pre chorus C major D major and chorus E minor A minor E minor D major that's a quick change then line one and line two you have E minor going to D all in the span of one bar Let's try line one of chorus Na na na na A minor ends with so it's pretty much the same cause as you can see for both lines E minor E minor G G A minor E minor just here instead of E minor D at the second line we go to C and D So it's pretty much the same progression So there's also a nice rhythm pattern which I've written down which you guys could play that is One E and a two E and a three E and a four E Okay, so that's one E and a two E and a three E and a okay Sounds a bit weird, but that's pretty much how the chords are played and once you hear it, it'll sound quite natural If you're not getting that you can perhaps just do and so on So I also it may be tough for you to get this Three E and a so what I will do is move it to the four that'll be a lot more playable Right, so that's one E and a two E and a three E and a four E and all you can even do it at the end One E and a two E and a three E Right, well, it's nicer. I think to put it on four you can decide so the it the guitarist sort of Shows you these accents doesn't play it exactly this way, but it's a rhythm pattern you could try out So let's try the chorus again Root notes in the left a minor E minor D Again A minor C D A minor and now this when you repeat Post the bridge post this part it goes back to this part when it goes back to chorus number three You need to repeat this phrase which I've put in the brackets. That's a minor C and D repeated once more Okay, so now let's go to the Exciting bridge section of the song which follows where and a guitar solo follows that So you have the same chords here for the bridge and the and the solo so you have E major No So you would normally be inclined towards playing E minor, but E major obviously makes it sound very epic And that's the vibe in a in a progressive song You'll have these non-diatonic chords which are always used, right? So let's see how that sounds C major A minor G D with F sharp See And then you'll also have a guitar solo following this on the same chords And then it goes back to the chorus and after that chorus is over We have an outro which is quite an elaborate long outro It's not something like a one bar thing. It's an entire chord progression, which is very different. So you go And every chord as I've written here is two beats each it's quick changes and this one's really fast A minor for two G for one and then D with F sharp bass for one. So let's go through this This is that guitar solo E minor D A minor So the chords are almost following the guitar solo if you look at it So try to go listen to the melody and try to sing them hum the melody of the guitar solo It's not like a show-off guitar solo where he's playing like a million notes per second He's he's playing a very singable tune which is probably as catchy or even more catchy or than even the vocal tune Right, so try to follow the guitarist and the chord shift fast and at the very end of the song He says so far away really really high and that's where you go E minor D major C major and stay So Stay on C Repeat that and then hold it with the last chord at the ending. Yeah, so it's quite an elaborate chord structure But playing it wise. It's not very technically challenging try to find a rhythm which is comfortable for you and Repeat that same rhythm throughout the song first and then see if you want to add something The first thing you need to do is to get the chords right, right? So try to isolate each chord from each progression and practice each progression in a sequence and then Do the next one and the next one and then try looping it and always try humming the melody line Even if you don't know the lyrics, which I never know Try to hum the melody line and that will really help you to Play for the song more and not play in your own shell, right? So hope you found that lesson useful catch you in the next one. 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