 Right, here's the scientist by Coldplay. It's an amazing band and the piano parts are very, very unique and Most of his parts are chordal. That means it will be It won't be very melodic or very showing off in nature, so to speak That's because he's also singing and it's a very sort of peaceful laid-back kind of song. I guess So in the song There are two sections what you would call as the verse and then the chorus, right? So the verse and the chorus are basically on the key of F major scale So just to go through that in the F major scale You have three major chords and three minor chords, right? You'll have F major which is your major chord B flat major and C major and then the minors G minor A minor and D minor and lastly the diminished chord, which is E diminished Now in a pop song, I don't think there'll be a lot of Diminished chords being used. Well, you never know So I would imagine that most pop songs or rock songs will stick around the major in the minor chord variety Okay, so it's always good to write down the chords all all the available Available chords before you start a song or before you start learning a song in this case Since it's pretty much on D minor or F major We try to just limit to those seven chords three major and three minor So what he does in the verse is basically a six four one five chord progression That's the six of F major, which is D minor Then B flat major which is the four Then the F major, which is the one And then there's a C major, which is the five. However, he plays it in a rather interesting manner the D minor He also adds a C to the chord. So Now I haven't seen him playing it, but I would imagine He plays the C and the D together with the same thumb, okay Well, you just have two thumbs. So I don't think you should do that Anyway, so this is this will work This is the first chord and B flat So there's also that This is just a little melodic phrase B flat to C. So let's do that again. D minor two three Four B flat two three That's B flat and C. So I've also notated that down in the grid. So you have D minor to three four B flat two three Four and so at the end you're sort of playing B flat and C as individual notes, then you come down to F F two three four C C sus. So C suspended chord is a very interesting chord. It's essentially You're not playing C major immediately as you would you're playing the F and then the C. So So he resolves the sus chord to the major at the four and that's generally what suspended chords do They they sort of make the major chord They make you wait for it. They even make you wait for a minor chord as well So there are quite a few songs which use it. There's summer of 69, which you guys should check out There's also the show must go on by queen and I've also done a video on Creative usage of the suspended chords. We'll put a link in the description. Just make sure you watch that one, okay? So let me do the entire verse section again and call out the chords as I'm playing and remember D minor is no longer a D minor as such It's played with a C. So that makes it a D minor seventh. You could say And the style of playing it on the piano is very interesting You do two hits in the left and one hit in the right So it's like you're playing chords in both hands Be flat Let me do it from the beginning B flat major F major major C sus 3 C major back One and two and three and four and one And three and four and one and two and three F major And then we go to the next part, which is the B flat part So I've written down the chords. So it's very very unique chord chord progression. You have B flat major Again keep that going and that's a C sus. Don't forget. I taught you that in the verse section, right? So that's B flat major Na na na na F B flat again no F again Okay, so let me break that whole section for you once more From the B flat, which is the second part of the song B flat B flat again F C sus 4 B flat Come back to F. So what he does is he does F for four counts The last cycle of that part This is an A minor 7 so it's an A minor with a G on the top. So that's a four-note chord F 2 3 4 a minor 2 D minor 4 So what I've marked out there is a minor and D minor are played. I've put this sort of Bracket there that indicates that it's played for two beats. So you're gonna go F 2 3 4 a minor 7 D minor and then C Pam Pam Pam So he also plays a filler at the end so with the C chord 1 2 3 4 and 1 And he stops at the next one of the next bar 1 2 3 4 and 1 That's C with E D with F E G basically closed thirds Okay, so let me do the second half of the pre chorus or chorus if you will so B flat A minor 7 D minor C 2 3 filler So once he sings start you play F B flat F F which I've written down and then it goes back to the first part Which is D minor B flat F and C, right? So Let me do the entire The entire second part which you could call as a chorus F C B flat again F and now a minor 7 D minor filler F major And this goes on I think till the end of the song so Yeah, it's pretty easy a song to play with the chord progression But as you get into it, it's quite interesting and it will teach you a lot As you grow as a musician and as a pianist so just remember the time feel is 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and I'd like you to count like this throughout these songs, okay that's the feel and There are some chords Which you may not have heard before or learnt before one is the suspended chord as I said which is the root The perfect fourth and the perfect fifth example C sus 4 which is mentioned And there's also things like the A minor 7th or the D minor 7th chord a minor 7th chord is nothing but a minor chord With a flat 7 on the top or at the bottom wherever you play okay, and There was also a cup. There were also a couple of other chords which were marked out like a minor 7th over F, right? So so that was at the chorus Now F So he plays a minor 7th, but what I've written down in the In the chart is it's a minor 7th with an F bass. I think I forgot to mention that slightly earlier So when you play a minor 7th in the right hand, just make sure you play F in the left hand It makes it sound very very spacey And Then he does D minor with an F bass normally you'd be playing a D minor But in this Coldplay song, we have D minus with the F and similarly a minor 7th with the same F Sort of makes it a major 9th Then you'll have a D minor over F And then the pattern just remembers 2 is to 1 right pretty much throughout And try to go with the feel of the song and the volume of the singer as he or she goes through the track So the singer gets louder You can try and go louder with the singer and that's one of the unique aspects of learning a Coldplay song There's a lot of dynamics. It's pretty much the same chord progression throughout But there are a lot of dynamics which you have to follow Right and a lot of that comes from the piano. Yes, it does come from the drums and the other musicians But the way he plays the piano adds a lot to to the whole thing, right? So 2 is to 1 left hand is to right hand 8th note feel F major That's pretty much it. So it's time now for you to start playing this song and nail it 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