Chords for Couch - Earl Sweatshirt x Tyler the Creator (Piano Lesson by Matt McCloskey)

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So it's important to realize before we get going on this song that the instruments [G] in the actual [N] recording have been tuned up
from perfect tuning.
What I'm showing you here on the piano may not sound exactly correct.
I checked this on my keyboard and when I figured this out, I was 22
semitones above perfect tuning.
So make sure when you're playing this song, tune your keyboard up to 22 semitones or
20 if your keyboard only does 10 semitone intervals.
But yeah, just something to keep in mind.
These chords are completely correct though.
With that in mind, your main chord progression is going to be based around _ _
three major seventh chords in the right hand and then single notes in the left hand.
So the first one is this.
You [Bb] start with a [Dm] Bb major seventh in the [Bb] right hand.
Bb, D, [Dm] F, A. _ _
[G] That's in its root position and your left hand is going to be playing G.
[Ab] Keep in mind that I'm showing you the left hand an octave higher than where it should be.
[Eb] _ Just something to keep in mind.
You should [Gm] move this down 12 half steps that way to get the good feel of this song.
_ So [Abm] combined with the chord in the right [Bb] hand, this is going to make a G minor [Gm] seventh with an added ninth.
_ Yeah, [Abm] okay.
So at any rate,
_ [Bb] that's the first one and this one's [Gb] going to get held three times or most of the time
it's going to get held [Gm] three times longer than the other two chords.
_ _ Then the time it takes to play the other two chords.
At the beginning of the song this gets held
only twice as long as the time it takes to play the other two chords, but for the most part
it's a three to one ratio.
At any rate,
there's this and [C] then you go here.
You play a C major seventh.
C, E, G, B [G] with an A in the left hand [Am] to make an A minor seventh with an added ninth. _
[Abm] Then you go to
_ [B] that's a B major seventh.
B, D sharp, F sharp, A sharp combined with an
[Abm] G sharp in the left hand to make a G sharp minor seventh with an added ninth.
[Ab] So once through the loop if we're doing a three to one ratio should sound something like this.
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[Bb] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
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[Gb] _ You're also going to hear this
[N] weird like it almost sounds like a quacking sort of instrument.
That's kind of what I would liken it to but what it's basically you're going to hear this part moving around during the verses and
basically what that part does is it just kind of rolls through each one of those chords.
It's just playing the same notes that are in those chords that I just showed you.
So the quacking moving [Gm] part during your verses [Dm] is going to go like this.
You're going to start on an A.
You're going to go A, F, D.
Then you're going to [Gm] roll through this chord.
[Dm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] G, B [Dm] flat, D, F, A, F, [Bb] D, B flat.
Then you're going [Dm] to go A, F, D, A, F, D, [Gm] D, E flat, G, B flat.
_ And by this point you're [B] to the chord change.
So you're going to go
_ B, G, E, [Ab] C, _ [Ab] A
sharp, F [Abm] sharp, D sharp, B. _
So if I were to play the quacking part [G] of this instrumental backing track, it should sound something like this.
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Gm] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ [G] So on and so forth.
That's [N] the core of this song.
And keep in mind that just because I'm playing these four notes [Bb] with my right hand,
just [G] because I'm playing four note chords with my right [N] hand doesn't mean you have to also.
What's important is that you hit these [Gm] five notes all together.
[G] So you could splice it up any way you wanted.
[Gm] You could
play a G minor chord in the left hand and then play [Bb] F and A in the right hand.
[C] And then you'd go to and then [B] something like
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something like that.
Or you could play two notes in the left hand.
You could play [Em] D minor, E minor, [D] D sharp minor in the [Bb] right hand.
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[G] Just as long as the five notes in each
big chord get hit at the same time.
Then there's one high extra piano fill that you're gonna hear.
The first time you hear it is when
_ [Eb] Earl says something about sniffle season or like smile at sniffle season, something like that.
And [A] what you're gonna play is again, it's going through the [Ab] same
[G] G minor seventh with the added [Ab] ninth and this time since it's higher,
what you're gonna do is you're gonna start here on the G.
You [Gm] know G B flat
_ D F [A] A.
And notice how I start here on [Gm] my index finger.
_ [Eb] I play [Gb] the B flat with my middle finger and then I cross underneath with my [Gm] thumb. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ It just [G] makes the transition a lot easier.
It's a little less of an awkward fingering.
[Gm] _ _ _ _
Because if you try to [C] go through like up through that chord what you're [Gm] gonna see is and _ I suppose you could, _ I
don't know.
I think it's more comfortable to do this.
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Whatever floats your boat.
But yeah, [Ab] that's couch by Earl Sweatshirt [Bb] featuring Tyler the Creator.
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