Chords for How to Play "2009" by Mac Miller on Piano (Piano Tutorial)
Tempo:
70.15 bpm
Chords used:
D
F#m
C#m
A
Bm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Hey, what's up guys today?
I'm going to teach you how to play the verses and choruses of 2009 by Mac Miller
I'm gonna leave out the intro just because it's a little
All over the place, and I don't really have time to figure it out, so let's get right into it
I'm just gonna play it through first, and then I'll break it down, so it's a little something like this
[D] [F#m]
[D]
All right, so [F#m] that just goes through the whole song
So let's break it down the hardest part about this song for me when I was learning it was the left hand
It's a lot of traveling chords
So the first one is going to be an F sharp minor
So an F sharp minor here, and then you're gonna move down to a [C#m] C sharp minor, and [D] you're gonna go to a D major
[F#m] Right so so far we have F sharp minor [C#m] C sharp [D] minor D
major
Then we have a a major with the second inversion
So we have [A] an E and a and a C sharp, and then we're gonna go down to a [D] D major also inverted
Right so that's just kind of the same as the D major, but playing that down here
So all together we have F [C#m] sharp minor C sharp minor D [A] major a second [D] inversion
D-inverted
That's pretty much the hardest part of the song at least for me when I was learning it so the right hand
Is pretty simple it just carries the melody [A#] so it's
[C#] [F#m]
Right so that's C sharp [F] twice E
[A] Hey
Back to C sharp and then [C#] down here to G flat or F sharp depending on how you want to look at it
So yeah, just I would you know just kind of practice honing in both hands first [A#] separately and then piece them together so
[F#m] I
[C#m] [Bm] Messed up there and hit a B [F#m] But
[D]
[F#m] [F#m] [D] And you notice I kind of play a little different versions on the [D#] left hand depending on you know kind of the feel [F#m] but
You know you could play [D] that
And you could [C#m] also get away with that [A] that chord
Instead of [C#m] that chord
[A] all right, so you're just switching out the a for the
a flat here
And then kind of same thing [D] goes with this D major inverted you could [Bm] turn into a B, so that would sound like
[C#m]
[A] [Bm] It kind of gives it a little different tone you still [D#] kind of get the same gist of it just kind of personal preference
I'm not exactly sure how he played it on the studio version, but kind of that's what I'm hearing in my ear
And I think it sounds pretty right
Yeah, so that's pretty much it took me a decent amount of time to practice it
Just a lot of muscle memory
And then you know you could kind of throw in some nuances and pick it up, but you know wherever you want
You could one of the things I like to do is just kind of arpeggiate on the right hand when you're leading [F#m] up to this
so just kind of
[C#m] [D] [D] Just gives it a little more
[F#m] You know
A little better feeling
[D] But you know if you want to play it exactly how he did it's just
But I personally [B] think that sounds a little thin when you don't have a full band or you know a drum track and all the
Other instruments he had behind it
So yeah, that's pretty much it for this one.
It's pretty straightforward
If you want to learn the intro you know shoot it in the comments below.
I could probably learn it, but no guarantees there
It does sound a little complicated a lot of arpeggiated scales all up and down the keys in different octaves
But I hope that helped and you know if you want to see anything else throw in the comments below
And I'll try to get around to it.
Thanks
I'm going to teach you how to play the verses and choruses of 2009 by Mac Miller
I'm gonna leave out the intro just because it's a little
All over the place, and I don't really have time to figure it out, so let's get right into it
I'm just gonna play it through first, and then I'll break it down, so it's a little something like this
[D] [F#m]
[D]
All right, so [F#m] that just goes through the whole song
So let's break it down the hardest part about this song for me when I was learning it was the left hand
It's a lot of traveling chords
So the first one is going to be an F sharp minor
So an F sharp minor here, and then you're gonna move down to a [C#m] C sharp minor, and [D] you're gonna go to a D major
[F#m] Right so so far we have F sharp minor [C#m] C sharp [D] minor D
major
Then we have a a major with the second inversion
So we have [A] an E and a and a C sharp, and then we're gonna go down to a [D] D major also inverted
Right so that's just kind of the same as the D major, but playing that down here
So all together we have F [C#m] sharp minor C sharp minor D [A] major a second [D] inversion
D-inverted
That's pretty much the hardest part of the song at least for me when I was learning it so the right hand
Is pretty simple it just carries the melody [A#] so it's
[C#] [F#m]
Right so that's C sharp [F] twice E
[A] Hey
Back to C sharp and then [C#] down here to G flat or F sharp depending on how you want to look at it
So yeah, just I would you know just kind of practice honing in both hands first [A#] separately and then piece them together so
[F#m] I
[C#m] [Bm] Messed up there and hit a B [F#m] But
[D]
[F#m] [F#m] [D] And you notice I kind of play a little different versions on the [D#] left hand depending on you know kind of the feel [F#m] but
You know you could play [D] that
And you could [C#m] also get away with that [A] that chord
Instead of [C#m] that chord
[A] all right, so you're just switching out the a for the
a flat here
And then kind of same thing [D] goes with this D major inverted you could [Bm] turn into a B, so that would sound like
[C#m]
[A] [Bm] It kind of gives it a little different tone you still [D#] kind of get the same gist of it just kind of personal preference
I'm not exactly sure how he played it on the studio version, but kind of that's what I'm hearing in my ear
And I think it sounds pretty right
Yeah, so that's pretty much it took me a decent amount of time to practice it
Just a lot of muscle memory
And then you know you could kind of throw in some nuances and pick it up, but you know wherever you want
You could one of the things I like to do is just kind of arpeggiate on the right hand when you're leading [F#m] up to this
so just kind of
[C#m] [D] [D] Just gives it a little more
[F#m] You know
A little better feeling
[D] But you know if you want to play it exactly how he did it's just
But I personally [B] think that sounds a little thin when you don't have a full band or you know a drum track and all the
Other instruments he had behind it
So yeah, that's pretty much it for this one.
It's pretty straightforward
If you want to learn the intro you know shoot it in the comments below.
I could probably learn it, but no guarantees there
It does sound a little complicated a lot of arpeggiated scales all up and down the keys in different octaves
But I hope that helped and you know if you want to see anything else throw in the comments below
And I'll try to get around to it.
Thanks
Key:
D
F#m
C#m
A
Bm
D
F#m
C#m
Hey, what's up guys today?
I'm going to teach you how to play the verses and choruses of 2009 by Mac Miller
I'm gonna leave out the intro just because it's a little
All over the place, and I don't really have time to figure it out, so let's get right into it
I'm just gonna play it through first, and then I'll break it down, so it's a little something like this
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
All right, so [F#m] that just goes through the whole song
So let's break it down the hardest part about this song for me when I was learning it was the left hand
It's a lot of traveling chords
So the first one is going to be an F sharp minor
So an F sharp minor here, and then you're gonna move down to a [C#m] C sharp minor, and _ [D] you're gonna go to a D major _ _ _
[F#m] Right so so far we have F sharp minor [C#m] C sharp [D] minor D
_ major
Then we have a a major with the second inversion
So we have [A] an E and a and a C sharp, _ and then we're gonna go down to a [D] D major also inverted
Right so that's just kind of the same as the D major, but playing that down here
So all together we have F [C#m] sharp minor C sharp minor D [A] major a second [D] inversion
D-inverted
That's pretty much the hardest part of the song at least for me when I was learning it so the right hand
Is pretty simple it just carries the melody [A#] so it's
_ [C#] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ Right so that's C sharp [F] twice E _
[A] Hey
_ Back to C sharp and then [C#] down here to G flat or F sharp depending on how you want to look at it
So yeah, just I would you know just kind of practice honing in both hands first [A#] separately and then piece them together so
_ [F#m] _ _ _ I _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ Messed up there and hit a B [F#m] But
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [D] _ And you notice I kind of play a little different versions on the [D#] left hand depending on you know kind of the feel [F#m] but
You know you could play [D] that
And you could [C#m] also get away with that [A] that chord
Instead of [C#m] that chord
_ [A] _ _ _ all right, so you're just switching out the a for the
a flat here
And then kind of same thing [D] goes with this D major inverted you could [Bm] turn into a B, so that would sound like
[C#m] _ _ _
[A] _ _ [Bm] _ It kind of gives it a little different tone you still [D#] kind of get the same gist of it just kind of personal preference
I'm not exactly sure how he played it on the studio version, but kind of that's what I'm hearing in my ear
And I think it sounds pretty right
Yeah, so that's pretty much it took me a decent amount of time to practice it
Just a lot of muscle memory
And then you know you could kind of throw in some nuances and pick it up, but you know wherever you want
You could one of the things I like to do is just kind of arpeggiate on the right hand when you're leading [F#m] up to this
so just kind of _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ [D] _ _ [D] _ Just gives it a little more
[F#m] _ You know
A little better feeling _ _ _
[D] _ But you know if you want to play it exactly how he did it's just _ _
_ _ But I personally [B] think that sounds a little thin when you don't have a full band or you know a drum track and all the
Other instruments he had behind it
So yeah, that's pretty much it for this one.
It's pretty straightforward
If you want to learn the intro you know shoot it in the comments below.
I could probably learn it, but no guarantees there
It does sound a little complicated a lot of arpeggiated scales all up and down the keys in different octaves
But I hope that helped and you know if you want to see anything else throw in the comments below
And I'll try to get around to it.
Thanks
I'm going to teach you how to play the verses and choruses of 2009 by Mac Miller
I'm gonna leave out the intro just because it's a little
All over the place, and I don't really have time to figure it out, so let's get right into it
I'm just gonna play it through first, and then I'll break it down, so it's a little something like this
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
All right, so [F#m] that just goes through the whole song
So let's break it down the hardest part about this song for me when I was learning it was the left hand
It's a lot of traveling chords
So the first one is going to be an F sharp minor
So an F sharp minor here, and then you're gonna move down to a [C#m] C sharp minor, and _ [D] you're gonna go to a D major _ _ _
[F#m] Right so so far we have F sharp minor [C#m] C sharp [D] minor D
_ major
Then we have a a major with the second inversion
So we have [A] an E and a and a C sharp, _ and then we're gonna go down to a [D] D major also inverted
Right so that's just kind of the same as the D major, but playing that down here
So all together we have F [C#m] sharp minor C sharp minor D [A] major a second [D] inversion
D-inverted
That's pretty much the hardest part of the song at least for me when I was learning it so the right hand
Is pretty simple it just carries the melody [A#] so it's
_ [C#] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ Right so that's C sharp [F] twice E _
[A] Hey
_ Back to C sharp and then [C#] down here to G flat or F sharp depending on how you want to look at it
So yeah, just I would you know just kind of practice honing in both hands first [A#] separately and then piece them together so
_ [F#m] _ _ _ I _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ Messed up there and hit a B [F#m] But
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [D] _ And you notice I kind of play a little different versions on the [D#] left hand depending on you know kind of the feel [F#m] but
You know you could play [D] that
And you could [C#m] also get away with that [A] that chord
Instead of [C#m] that chord
_ [A] _ _ _ all right, so you're just switching out the a for the
a flat here
And then kind of same thing [D] goes with this D major inverted you could [Bm] turn into a B, so that would sound like
[C#m] _ _ _
[A] _ _ [Bm] _ It kind of gives it a little different tone you still [D#] kind of get the same gist of it just kind of personal preference
I'm not exactly sure how he played it on the studio version, but kind of that's what I'm hearing in my ear
And I think it sounds pretty right
Yeah, so that's pretty much it took me a decent amount of time to practice it
Just a lot of muscle memory
And then you know you could kind of throw in some nuances and pick it up, but you know wherever you want
You could one of the things I like to do is just kind of arpeggiate on the right hand when you're leading [F#m] up to this
so just kind of _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ [D] _ _ [D] _ Just gives it a little more
[F#m] _ You know
A little better feeling _ _ _
[D] _ But you know if you want to play it exactly how he did it's just _ _
_ _ But I personally [B] think that sounds a little thin when you don't have a full band or you know a drum track and all the
Other instruments he had behind it
So yeah, that's pretty much it for this one.
It's pretty straightforward
If you want to learn the intro you know shoot it in the comments below.
I could probably learn it, but no guarantees there
It does sound a little complicated a lot of arpeggiated scales all up and down the keys in different octaves
But I hope that helped and you know if you want to see anything else throw in the comments below
And I'll try to get around to it.
Thanks