Chords for How to Play "The Way We Get By" by Spoon | HDpiano (Part 1) Piano Tutorial

_ _ [Eb] _ _ Hey everybody, welcome [Cm] back to [F] HD piano.
This is [Eb] Jeff today
We're gonna be checking out a great tune by [F] spoon called the way we get by and we're gonna be starting off
With the first [A] part of the verse which sounds like this _
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Okay, we're gonna split our hands up for this one start with the right hand
We're gonna do [A] the notes first and then add the rhythm.
So we're gonna start with an a that's right [C] below our [A] middle C
_ _ And then we're just gonna add notes to it.
So we're gonna play a
C sharp _ and then a [D] and D
_ Keep climbing up a and [A] E
_ _ Then we're gonna climb back down a [D] and D
_ _ _ Back to a and C [A] sharp _ _ now for a new note a and C natural [Am] _
and then we're gonna end on our a again
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So _ let's do that one more time
Start on our a up to a and C sharp a and D a and [A] E
_ Climb [D] down a and D [A] and C sharp a [Am] and C natural and then finally
[A] _ the a
_ So this is the first half of the riff.
_ _ Let's do that again a little faster
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ All right.
Nice job.
Now.
Let's add some rhythm to that.
So the rhythm of this is a little tricky
It's on a lot of upbeats.
So [Gb] really make sure you feel those downbeats while you're playing it
So you're playing off the downbeats?
So I'm gonna count that really slowly so you can hear what that sounds like one two, three four [A] one _ _
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_ [A] _ Repeat _ _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ All right, I would rewind that
Get those upbeats really solid before you move on
So that's the first half of the riff the second half is pretty much the exact same thing except we leave out
The final a at the end.
So the second half of the riff sounds like this
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[Am] _ _ _ Hear _ that how we didn't play that very last a so now let's do all [Db] four measures of the riff two three
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four one
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One
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that's it let's try that a little bit faster before we add the left hand _ _ two three four [A] one
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_ _ [Am] _ All right, nice work the left [Abm] hand much easier than the right hand we play six [A] a's and
_ Two [F] F's _ _ so that'll sound like [A] this one two, three, four five six one [A] two
_ two three four five [F] six one two
[Db] Pretty easy now, let's put the hands together
[A] The key with hands together is to really have one hand working off the other
Your left hand is going to be playing a lot of downbeats and your right hand is gonna be playing the upbeats
So it's kind of going to be a little seesaw effect where one hand plays and the other hand follows
So to demonstrate that I'm gonna play it really slow for you
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ Okay, let's try that at two more speeds
We'll speed it up just a little bit and then we're gonna [N] play at the tempo of the record _ now for our medium speed
two three [A] four
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_ _ _ right.
Let's try it one last time up to tempo
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_ _ All right, that's it nice work everyone
That's the first part of the verse for spoon the way we get by stick around [Eb] we got the chorus coming up
We got the second part of the verse and we have a really cool interlude section.
We'll see you soon
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