 Hi guys, so let's learn Queen of Mean by Sarah Jeffery. It's a nice track which pretty much has one chord progression throughout, however the rhythm pattern and the intensity will change slightly. The entire song is on the key of G minor. G minor borrows the chords of the B flat major scale. B flat major has two flats right, B flat and E flat. So I would suggest you to perhaps if you are not sure of the chords yet of this scale, pause the video, write down the chords of B flat major and then you will be with me. So the B flat major scale or the G minor scale has basically B flat, E flat and F as the major chords. But in this song we don't have that many major chords. In fact the B flat major chord is not there. So you have a prominence of the minor chord and since it's on the G minor scale you start on the G minor chord. So let's look at the chord progression of the entire song first and just note that somewhere at the end of the song after the build up happens we go to the next key which is a semitone above B flat major or G minor which is G sharp minor one step higher. And there are no rules as such they just sort of play the song one step higher and that seems to be a very good way to add energy and additional excitement to the song right. So let's get started with the chords of the song. So you have G minor then you have E flat major then you have F major and then I'm showing you C minor. And I'm playing it in a very specific way from what I'm hearing in the original it's not played for convenience it's not G minor and then E flat which is sort of very close they're playing it G minor here, E flat there, F as C F A and then C minor you play G C E flat and D and I've written that here just below the chord so this is mainly for piano players this is G minor D G B and you have to come down to play E flat major which is B flat E G then you go up again to do F major which is C F A remember this is still F major the notes are just not traditionally played it's just played in a more interesting way so you go G minor E flat major F major C minor. So the first time you play C minor it's down below as you can see here and the second time you play you go higher and with every instance of C minor you do the E flat and then slide to D not slide just play it with another finger perhaps right so let's look at the chords again and the left hand plays the roots of the chords as always second bar where the C minor went high and rhythmically the pattern I'm following is what I've mentioned here every alternate chord they play at the off beat or at the end so this will be on one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and so in a bar of four beats this chord will be played for one count sorry for at beat one this will be played at beat 2.5 next bar one next bar to end right so let's try and do that in rhythm one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and so the D also comes in at the end one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four you can use this pretty much for the bridge the verse the intro you can use it for like at least 70 to 80% of the song. However in the chorus perhaps you could get some excitement so you can play the off beats in the left hand. What I'm doing is 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. This is basically the roots of each chord right. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and chorus you can just slam the chords on the beat on the pulse. So it's pretty much the same pattern right so you could perhaps look at juggling it up with the mellow part which is just at the hits and the heavy part which is at the chorus. You can also make the chorus a little busier with some additional accents. Break it down in the verse. So that's pretty much what you could do pretty much for the whole song until the scale change occurs where I've written down the new chords which is G sharp minor, E major, F sharp major and C sharp minor right. So the scale change like I said in the beginning happens at the end of the song. I would suggest to listen to the song a couple of times as well. So yeah that's pretty much the track Queen of Mean by Sarah Jeffery. G minor going to G sharp minor at the end and a nice chord pattern where you have the on beat and then the off beat. G minor, E flat major, F major and C minor. Those are pretty much your chords and then you transpose that to the last chorus which is G sharp minor, E major, F major and C sharp minor. And while you do that just remember to have the dynamics. I've taught you guys two core rhythms. So follow both the rhythms as you see fit. When the song is building up play the more busier rhythm. When the song is chilled out play the chilled out rhythm. So hope you guys have fun playing this song. Cheers.