Chords for Country Style Piano, "Last Date", Piano Tutorial, 7 Minutes

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_ _ _ _ _ [G] Hello and welcome.
_ [N] Today I'm going to play a song for you called Last Date.
It was written by Floyd Kramer.
It was a very popular song for the piano.
It was an instrumental _ _ song.
There were no words or lyrics written for it,
but it was played as a piano solo.
_ _ _ And it was considered a country-western or a country type of song in its style,
or a slow dance.
_ And I'm going to explain a little bit about the stylistic features of this song
later on after I play it.
And also there will be a score available on my website,
so you can download the score for this song. _
_ _ _ So here we go now with Last Date by Floyd Kramer. _ _
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ want to talk about some of the stylistic features of this song
in terms of the country style of playing.
_ And the first thing is that the bass line, what's happening in the left hand
and the bass line is a figure that moves counter to what's going on in the right hand.
So it makes this piece a little bit difficult to play. _
But what you have is a very typical kind of _ blues,
_ country blues type of bass line that goes like this.
[B] _ [C] _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
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[G] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] You could also start lower and go _
[Bm] _ [C] maybe_
_ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ So for the C chord you have this,
[G] _ then it [C] goes to the F [F] chord,
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slides down to the C chord.
Now you have that rhythm going against the melody, which goes like this. _ _
_ _ [G] _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
But it's harmonized in [C] thirds _ like that, fourths, third, [Bb] _
[Am] third, third.
And what happens that gives it the unique sound is the grace note.
_ [A]
So the grace note is the way you slide up [F] to the bottom note of the thirds.
[C] _ That's a fourth of course, but this is a third here [B] now, this is a [Cm] third.
So there's always a _ grace note in there.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Practically missed the one on the fourth, but _ _ this _ [E] one here.
_ _ _ [C] _ [Bb] _ _ [Cm] So that's really the country sound, that sort of [C] thing.
It can be like that, it can be_
In this case it's actually a whole step rather than a [Dm] half.
[E] Often the grace note is a half like this. _ _ _ _
[D] This one is a whole step, whole [C] step, _ whole [F] step, _ _ whole step.
_ _ [G] Now you have to play that melody against this left hand, which is not that easy.
[A] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [C] _ [F] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ Now the next thing that [F] happens is you have this descending line.
So it's coming down from the F, _ down [C] in steps.
_ [Dm] This is a very nice_
That's kind of a country sound too or a blues kind of sound.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [F] _ _
You really have to work on getting the coordination of that.
I had to work on it quite a bit.
So now [Cm] here, then you have this other thing going on like this,
[Gm] where it continues the grace note idea.
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_ _ That's not easy. _ _
[C] _ _ _ So you have to be a pretty good player to probably play this song. _ _ _
_ Then you have the left hand triplets going like this.
_ _ [F] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [C] _ [F] _ _ _ _
So what that [C] is, is like an arpeggiated C chord to an [D] arpeggiated [G] G7,
_ _ _ _ starting on a D on the 5th,
[E] then a C7 arpeggiated starting on the _ [C] 3rd,
and then the [F] F chord _ _ arpeggiated,
then [C] back again C, [G] then G.
_ Like that.
And then you have to continue to put these grace notes in like this. _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ That type of thing.
Then the bridge is a little different.
_ [D] [F] You go into the _ F chord, you have this.
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_ _ _ _ [C] [Dm] So you see that triplet figure is _ _ very_
It's typical of blues or country style.
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[Bb] _ _ _ [C] _ Like [Dm] that. _
[A] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ Goes up, F to [G] G, _ now a descending [C] line.
Now this chord [G] here is really a G chord,
_ but it's a B in the bass,
[C] so you have [B] a [A] descending line [C] like that.
C, _ [G] G to [Am] A minor.
It's very [C] nice.
Down to the 4 [F] chord, _ _ _ _ then [Dm] the 2, then the 5.
[G] _
[F] Then back to the original theme. _
And the ending is kind of interesting because it's kind of like a drop too.
It goes like this. _ _
Meaning that note is dropped down here. _ _
_ [C] _ Like that.
That note is dropped down [G] here.
And then this, _ _ _ _ played it like that.
So that note, the second note from the top is dropped down.
_ [C] Then I_
_ Okay?
_ _ So that shows you a little bit about the stylistic features of this song.
And it's available on my website,
so you can download it and try to work up _ a little bit playing this.
And I hope you enjoyed it.
So thanks for watching and I'll see you next [Bm] time.
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