Chords for How to Play "How to Save a Life" by The Fray (Older Lesson) | HDpiano (Part 1) Piano Tutorial

_ _ [Eb] _ _ Hey there, everybody!
Welcome back [F] to HD Piano.
[Eb] _ I'm Phil, and today I'm gonna be teaching you [F] how
to play How to Save a Life by The Fray.
And in this video, [Bb] we're only gonna be looking at the
intro and the verse.
The other videos will show you how to play the rest, but that intro and verse,
as I'm sure you know, sounds a little something like this. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ Alright, _ right hands coming first
today, guys.
So I want you to anchor [Dm] your thumb right on this D above middle C.
_ I want you to
[Bb] put your pointer finger on the F above that.
_ Those are gonna be sticking around those two notes for
pretty much the entire time here, okay?
The top note is what changes, and that's gonna be our
little melody of this piano figure, okay?
We start with a B flat on top, _ _ then we've got our D and F,
of course. _ _ _
_ _ [C] Our next chord, keeping that D and F, but we're moving up to C.
_ _ _ [Dm] Next, same thing,
but we're playing a D on top. _ _ _ _
And last, we're gonna play an [F] A and then a C.
Those are each a
little bit shorter, [Dm] so A and [C] then C.
Alright, so before we get into the rhythmic [Bb] pattern of this,
let's just do each of the three notes _ _ as a block chord, which means all together at the same time.
So D, F, B flat, then we've [C] got D, F, C, _
[Dm] D, F, D, _ and then D, F, A, [C] and D, F, C.
See that? _ _
[Bb] Alright,
let's talk about the pattern here, the rhythmic pattern.
We're gonna slow it down quite a bit
because it's a little bit quick and a little bit syncopated. _
So let's get started. _ _ _ _
That's
our pattern that we're gonna do with each one of these.
So we start with the top, B flat,
_ one and two and three and four and. _ _
Let's try that again.
One and two and three _ and four and.
Notice there's nothing on beat three.
We're just holding out.
We're resting.
_ _ _ _ One and two and rest,
and four and.
Good.
Let's try it a little faster now.
One, two, here we go.
One and two and three
and four and.
Let's do it again.
One and two and ready, go.
One and two and rest, and four and.
Good.
Right after that, remember we're moving up to C.
We're gonna do the same pattern.
One and two
and three [Dm] and four and.
One and two and three and four and.
Now here's where it gets a little
different.
We are gonna play on beat three this time.
We're gonna go one and two [C] and three and
four.
_ See [Dm] that?
So A and then [F] C. _ _ _ _ _
_ Alright, [Bb] let's put the whole four phrases there of this verse
a little slower.
One and two and here we go.
B flat _ _ _ [F] and C.
Two and three.
[Dm] _ _ D and two and three
and four and A.
_ [F] C.
_ [Bb] Repeat.
Two and three and four and C.
Notice my top notes are a little [Dm] louder.
_ That's the melody.
We want to bring that out.
_ _ [F] _ Great.
[Bb] _ _
_ Now guys, please pause and rewind that as
many times as you need to do it at that tempo, and when you're ready, we'll do it at the normal
tempo, which is about here.
_ One, two, and three and four.
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ Really try to bring out those [F] top notes.
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ Great job.
Let's sneak that left hand in there.
It's pretty easy on its own, so we're just gonna
talk about it real quickly and put them together.
_ We're gonna start with your thumb on B flat.
_ Next
note is [F] A. _
[Bb] Next note's B flat.
_ [A] Next note's [F] A.
And that's it.
_ [C] These are gonna match up with our
changing top notes in the right hand.
So B flat plays with, you guessed it, the B flat [Bb] on the
right hand. _ _ _ _
When the right hand plays our C, left hand plays A. _
_ _ When the right hand plays D,
left hand's going back to B flat.
_ _ _ _ Now here comes the A in the top right [Dm] hand, playing an A again
in the left hand.
_ [F] _
_ We're gonna keep that A down when the right hand moves up to that C.
Okay,
so let's do the whole [Bb] thing together.
One and two, and here we go. _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [F] _ _ Alright, and when you're ready,
we're gonna go up to tempo.
_ Here we go.
_ One, two, let's [Bb] go.
_ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
[F] _ Great job, everybody.
Well, that is the intro and the verse for How to Save a Life by The Frey, _
and once you get that down, I want you to check out the other video on the chorus.
_ _ That's all
there is for How to Save a Life, guys.
You'll be playing it in no time.
I'm Phil.
This is
HD Piano.
Thanks for hanging out and I hope I see you [Eb] soon! _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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