Chords for How To Play Daniel Caesar & H.E.R.‘s “Best Part” With Jacob Collier

_ _ You don't know [Am] babe _
_ [A] When you hold_
What's up everybody?
[G] My name is Jacob Collier.
How's it going?
Today?
I'm [Bb] gonna teach you how to play the chords of the song best part by [Bm] Daniel Caesar and [Gbm] her
And it don't [A] change
If I had it my way_
[D] For me the most amazing thing about this song [G] is these chords are quite colorful and quite [F] interesting
_ _ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _
[A] _ You're the coffee that I need in the morning
[G] It's a song that I think lots of people can see themselves in [Gb] and I think that's one of the reasons why so many people
Have done [Gb] covers of this song because it's one of [Eb] those sort of all-time [Bb] classics in my opinion
[D] _ _ _
So the way this song is constructed is that it's the same four chords that go round and round and round
There are two different kinds of chords available in this song
The first is a major seven chord and the second is a minor seven chord both good chords
The first chord of the song is a D [E] major seven, which looks like this on the guitar
_ _ _ [Gbm] _
_ _ _ _ D major seven _ [Bbm] and what sets this chord apart from a normal major chord is [Gb] the C sharp here
Which is the major seven of the chord?
[D] _ _ [Gbm] _
[Bb] The second chord of the song is what's best known as an A minor seven chord, which looks like this on the guitar
[Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And _ _ what sets this [Bb] chord apart from [Gm] an ordinary a minor chord is the G [A] Yeah
Which is the seventh [G] the minor seventh of a the third chord the song is a G major seventh chord, which is G
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And
The fourth and final chord of this song is a B flat [Bb] major seventh and it's the same voicing just three frets up and this
is B flat _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And it's just the [D] same four chords round and round and round [D] and it don't change
_ [A] _ If I had it my [Am] way
_ [G] _ You will know that you [Bb] are _ _ _ _
In [E] jazz we have this idea of a chord becoming increasingly colorful as you rise by thirds
We've done here is we've gone D to [D] F sharp
It's a major third _ F sharp to a which is a minor third and if we do the same again, we go up a major [Gbm] third
_ _ _ We can actually keep going
[Dbm] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [B]
And the higher up we go the more color is added to the chord
So [Gb] what Daniel Caesar's done here [Abm] is he's decided to involve [Db] the C sharp in the [D] chord to add a bit of color
You know, it would sound fine if it was you don't know baby
[Am] When you hold [G] me, but [Em] it's more interesting and more [D] colorful to have you don't know [Am] babe
_ when you [G] hold me
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _
flat major seven
_ _ [G] And I think [Bb] that's what provides some of the sort of soul influence because a lot of these voicings come from jazz and soul music
And I think that added with the sort of R&B elements [E] of the groove
I think that's what makes this song such a successful recipe since this song is in D [D] major
The two most important notes that define it to be D major are D and A
_ Now the cool thing about the B flat major 7 in this song
Which is this chord here [A] _ is that we have these two notes which remind us of home
[Bb] But the B flat is a departure from home.
And I think what that means is that when we return to D major
[D] _
For the first chord you have a sense of a sort of continuum of the harmony of [Bb] the song and so we're almost home here
But then when we go back here
[D] We're home.
We really feel like it's truly D [F] melodically speaking a lot of the melody involved in this song
Revolves around the pentatonic scale now the pentatonic scale is the five most important notes in the major key center
So D major which is the key of this song?
_ contains these notes in its pentatonic scale D E
_ _ [Gb] _ _ [Gbm] _ _
_ _ [Bm] So when you have a melody [D] like
You're my coffee that I need in the [Am] morning _
You're my sunshine in the rain, and it's boring
[D] All of these notes are taken from D pentatonic and the nice thing about this chord [Bb] sequence is that all of these notes
work [D] across all four chords and _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ What [Em] this provides is a sense of harmonic [A] constants.
You're the coffee that I need in the morning
[A] You're my sunshine in the rain when it's [D] boring
_ [G] Won't you [E] give yourself to me?
[A] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[A] _ [D] I [G] just want to [Am] see how beautiful you [D] are _ _
Where you go [G] I'll follow no [F] matter how [B] far
_ Where you go [A] I'll follow [B] no matter how [D] far
[G] If life is a [G] movie
_ [Bb] _ [F] You're the best [B]
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