Chords for How to Play "Latch" (Acoustic) by Sam Smith | HDpiano (Part 1) Piano Tutorial

[F] _ [Eb] _ Hey everybody, welcome back [Ab] to HD piano.
I'm Phil, and today I'm gonna be showing you how
to play Latch, the acoustic version, by Sam Smith.
In today's video, we're gonna be specifically
looking at the intro, but we've also got videos at HDpiano.com for the verse, the chorus, and a
video where we put all the parts together for the whole song.
Let's get started!
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_ [Cm] Alright,
let's start with the right hand first.
The rhythms are a little weird, and we'll get into that in a
sec, but the good news is that the notes, the shape of the chord, super easy.
It's the same
the whole time.
It's a C minor triad, which means C, E flat, and G in the right hand.
Now, there are
four different chords total for this section, and the chord progression goes A flat major seven [Ab] to
_ F minor [Cm] seven to D flat major seven [Ab] back to A flat major seven, but [Cm] the good news is in the right
hand, this triad works on top of all of those chords.
[Ab] So all we need to do is worry about
moving the left hand.
So let's do that now.
Most of these are in a fifth position, which means the
[Bbm] one [Eb] and the five of each chord.
[Ab] So we're gonna start with an A flat fifth.
_ _ A flat and E flat.
_ Second chord, [F] moving down to an F and a C.
An F fifth.
_ _ [Db] Third chord, we're moving up.
D flat fifth.
That's D flat and A flat.
_ [Ab] And fourth chord, we're moving down.
A flat and E flat.
Same as the first.
_ _ [Cm] So again, before we add any rhythm, let's just put these chords together.
I want you to play that C
minor triad on top of all four of those left hand chords.
[Ab] _ _ Our first one, when we combine them,
gives us an A flat major seven.
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_ Our second one is an F minor seven.
We're missing a couple notes
in there, but because we're in the key here of A flat major, we can deduce that this is an F minor
seven chord.
This is the sixth chord of the key.
_ Okay.
Third chord, [Ab] _ this is kind of a fancy D flat
major seven with a couple [Eb] of extra color notes [Ab] on top.
E flat major seven.
That's our third chord.
And our fourth chord, back to the first chord.
Same one.
A flat major seven.
_ _ _ _ Two, three, [Cm] four.
Two, three, [Ab] four.
Two, three, four.
Two, three, four.
Again. _ _
[Cm] Four, two, three, four.
[Ab] _ Three, four, one.
Good.
That is the intro.
_ It's also a little bit of the verse, but we're gonna save that for _ our
next.
But that is the entire intro, minus rhythm.
So let's get into that now.
Left hand, we're just
gonna do what we just did.
Whole notes.
_ [F] Right hand's gonna take care of [Db] the rhythm for us.
_ _ [Ab] _ So
let's put that aside for now. _
Now, the rhythm in the beginning, when I said that the rhythm was a
little weird, it's not anything too difficult, but the reason I said it's weird is because we have
to think about our timing a little differently.
When I was counting before, I was counting one,
two, three, [Cm] four.
One, two, three, four.
But the right hand rhythm is actually felt in double time,
which means we're actually gonna be feeling it like [Ab] this.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three,
[Cm] four.
Two, three, four.
One, two, three, four. _
And when we feel it that way, it makes the rhythm a lot
easier to play.
So let me play through it one time and then we'll break it down.
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Alright.
Now,
when I count that a little slower, you'll hear how that falls into the cracks of the double time
feel.
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_ Okay, _ [Ab] _ so we need to subdivide our double time.
We got to count double time.
One, two,
three, four.
One, two, three, four.
We also have to subdivide those counts into eighth notes. _ _ _
_ One,
two, [Cm] three, four.
And one, and two, and three, _ and four.
And one, and two, and three, four.
So
let's break that down.
The first two chords that we play in the right hand are strong beats.
We're
gonna play one, two, three, four on beat one and on beat three.
_ The next two chords, though,
are on upbeats.
So we go one, two, three, four, and one, and two. _ _
_ The and of four and the and
of one of the next measure.
That's what we're playing our next two chords on.
So again, from
the top it goes one, two, three, four, and one, and two. _
One, two, three, four, and one, and two.
Okay, then we have one final chord to play, and that's on beat three of that final measure.
So
one, two, three, four, and one, and two, three, four.
Got it?
Let's try that one more time.
[Ab] One,
two, three, four, and one, and two, three, four.
Let's try it a little faster now.
One, two, three,
four, and one, and two, three, four.
Even faster.
One, [Cm] two, three, four, and one, and two, three,
four.
Okay, that's pretty much up to tempo there.
So let's try it on the next chord. _ _ _ _
Next _ _ [Ab] and next. _
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That's all there is to it.
Let's try it a little faster now so that we're right up to speed for
the recording tempo, and then we'll call it a day on the intro.
Here we go.
One, two, three,
go.
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[Eb] There is the intro to the acoustic version of Latch. _ _ _
_ Excellent work today.
That was the intro
to Latch by Sam Smith.
Now if you guys are having fun and you want to learn the rest,
head to HDpiano.com, or you can click here to learn the verse, here to learn the chorus,
and here to put all the parts together to learn the whole song.
I'm Phil, and I hope I see you guys soon. _
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