Q. Carrie underwood's new song, "See You Again", is great and I want to play it on the piano but I can't find the chords anywhere! Probably because her album just came out on May 9th...
Anyways.. If there are any piano players reading this, can you help me figure out the chords please?? I think i have a few right..
Intro:
G
Oh oh ohh (B flat minor)
Oh oh ohh (g #)
Oh oh ohh (f minor)
Oh oh ohhh ohh (e #)
Said goodbye, turned around, and you were gone gone gone (g#)
Faded into the setting sun (b flat minor)
Please help!!!
A. Well, you do have the Intro right with it starting in the key of G. Just be aware that if it's in the key of G, then it will usually have four of the listed chord progression: G major, B minor, E minor, C major, D major, A minor.
The link I posted below will provide you with guitar chords (exactly the same as piano chords, unless a capo is used - will usually indicate that near the beginning of the piece/before the piece)
Hope this helps! Enjoy!
Intro: C G Em D(Oooh oooh oooh oooh) x2
G
Said goodbye, turned around
Em
And you were gone, gone, gone
C
Faded into the setting sun,
D
Slipped away
G
But I won't cry
Em
Cause I know I'll never be lonely
C
For you are the stars to me,
Am D
You are the light I follow
[Chorus]
G
I'll See you again, oh
Em
This is not where it ends
C D
I will carry you with me, oh
Em D
Till I see you again
[Repeat intro once]
G Em
I can hear those echoes in the wind at night
C
Calling me back in time
D
Back to you
G
In a place far away
Em
Where the water meets the sky
C
The thought of it makes me smile
Am D
You are my tomorrow
[Chorus]
G D C Em D
Sometimes I feel my heart is breaking
G D C
But I stay strong and I hold on cause I know
G
I'll see you again, oh
Em
This is not where it ends
C D
I will carry you with me, yeah yeah
[Chorus]
[Outro]
C G Em D
(Oooh oooh oooh oooh)
Till I see you again
C G Em D
(Oooh oooh oooh oooh)
C G Em
Till I see you again, oh oh
D
Till I see you again
G
Said goodbye turned around
Em C
And you were gone, gone, gone
Why do chord progressions have to follow the 'Chart'?
Q. If you have ever studied music theory, you know what I'm talking about (If not, just google "Chord Progression Chart"). Be as detailed as possible. Talk about what would happen if you didn't choose to follow the chart. Don't say, "It has to follow the circle of fifths" without explaining to me WHY that is important.
A. I went through music conservatory as a piano performance major and later did a second upper-level training in theory and composition, and never -- in all that classical study -- ever seen a "Chord Progression Chart."
ADD: I just googled it: this is a form of popular music theory, and specific for guitar playing more than actual 'music theory.' Please Do Not Mistake It In Any Way As Music Theory: what you learn from a chart like that would not qualify you for admittance to or be of any help to you in a freshman college theory 101 class. It may help you learn your way around basic guitar, but if you ever want a handle on music theory, of any sort, I'd ditch it. Thinking in nothing but 'chords' is very "pop theory" and wholly detrimental to your full development as a musician, regardless of musical genre. /// The shock there is another planet of music theory, often at odds with the pop theory terminology, shows up often enough in this category of Y/A, especially when it comes to analysis and identifying chords beyond the basic triads and seventh chords. END ADD
Some chords work, to all ears, better than others going one to the next. Initially, it is what is first learned, classical or other theory, since one has to start somewhere, and from the basics and beginning is almost always the best as well as most logical starting point. I repeat your chord chart has at least as much or more to do with 'the handiness' of playing guitar at a basic level vs. actual theoretic musical use, or other real musical possibility.
After one further investigates theory, there are no 'rules' but only examples of how, formerly, someone else 'made music work.'
If everyone 'followed the chart,' as if it were a law there would be no more music, no need to make anymore, and all listeners would be bored to tears!
Some progressions, within a certain context, may have one chord sounding really 'weak' - and your flow or structure collapse. That same chord, approached with different horizontal voicing of parts - individual lines, in an otherwise similar harmonic context, could sound 'fine.' That is nothing you will learn to do anything about if you are studying 'chord - chord - chord' instead of approaching those chords as a consequence of several simultaneous lines. -- Because, that is after all, how you learn enough to make anything sound good!
No rules, no laws, just examples of what most commonly 'works' or what others before you have made 'work.' At the time, at least in the common practice period of classical theory, what ended up in textbooks was 'breaking rules' of that day!
You are in trouble if you take those examples you study as a rule or 'law.' - you may have to mimic those examples closely for an assignment, that is so you learn how to work them yourself. It is not intended that will be the way you 'should' or will later compose.
That chart, again, is for pop music more than anything, all the conventional progressions, and very much about how to physically negotiate the guitar while mucking about within that set of conventions. It is a list of what has commonly worked and been done before, no more, no less.
Best regards.
how to convert piano chords into minor?
Q. like I wanna play a song, and I wanna make the chords minor to make it sound darker, but how do I do it. Is there like a way to do such? Help would be great, thanks!
A. You might want to mean a minor progression chord. Yup, it is possible. Converting pieces from major progression(where your main chord is a major) to minor progression(where your main chord is a minor) is a little bit tiresome. But, I'll try to explain this as brief but precise and easy to understand as i could.
The result of converting the major progression depends on what minor scale you would like to use.
The most common scale is the Harmonic Minor on its descending order (I call it personally HMDO). That is, 1 2 â3 4 5 â6 â7 8. Why HMDO? It is because HMDO scales are very similar to Major scales(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8). For example in A minor scale(on HMDO):A-B-C-D-E-F-G-A', just move the first two notes and you'll get the C Major scale!
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1.) Ok. Start making a list of the chords that are used.
2.) Identify what is the main/root chord being used. Move or transpose that chord 3 halfsteps/frets(or 1 & 1/2 wholesteps) DOWN . Example: G => E, C => A, D => B, and etc.
3.) Minor that chord. Ex: E =>Em, A => Am, B => Bm, etc. This will later become you root chord.
4.) Look for the fifth chords(if available) from the list. 5th chords are found by moving 4 notes up from the root note of a major scale. For example, if you have a C major chord progression, the major scale therefore is on C scale. That is, C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C'. Moving 4 notes from the root note which is C, we get G. Another one is, if you have an F major chord progression, the major scale therefore is on F scale. That is, F-G-A-Bb-C-D-E-F'. Moving 4 notes from the root note which is F, we get C.
5.) OPTIONALLY, move or transpose that chord(i refer to the 5th chord) down 3 halfsteps/frets. For example: D => B, G =>E and etc. So why optionally? Doing this step will make your chord progression more darker and 'minorer' to listen. But, if this results to a terrible sound/output, leave this step. Sometimes, you can also play either the natural 5th chord or the transposed 5th chord on one song. There are song that really have this type of progression.
6.) Leave the other chords as is. Don't change anything on them but if you think that you must have to do something on those chords, just do it. There's no NOs in music. Your style, your music!
7.) That's all, You're now have the converted minor progression chord
Those are the basics of transposing major progressions to minor progressions. And lastly, Experiment!
That's all for not now. Hope i helped.
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