Chords for Mandy Moore - Only Hope tutorial (intro & verse piano)

[F#] _ _ [B] Today I'm going to show [F#] you how to play the introduction [G] and the first verse of Mandy
Moore's [F] Only Hope.
_ This is in the [F#m] key of [G] E major [F#m] slash C minor, so [G] that means there's going to be four [C] sharps
[F#] in the key.
_ [G#m] _ _ We [F#] have F sharp, G sharp, C sharp, and D [D#m] sharp.
[F#] So the scale goes E, F sharp, [F#m] G sharp, A, B, [G#] C sharp, D sharp, [C] E.
_ These are the [G#] notes
that you'll have in the song.
There won't be any _ [F] of these white keys.
[G] _ _ _ _ Don't pay [F] attention to that too much if you don't understand [G#] it.
So the first part is the introduction.
I'll play it [C] and then I'll show you how to [B] play it.
_ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] So [F#m] the first part, starting with the [B] right hand, it goes B, [G#m]
B, _ B, [G#] A, G sharp, [Bm] G sharp,
F sharp, [Am] E, [F#] C sharp, D sharp, E, [F] D [F#] sharp, C sharp, [Cm] _ B sharp, [F#] which is also known as C,
_ C sharp.
_ So [Bm] we'll try that again.
B, B, _ B, [F#m] A, G sharp, G sharp, F sharp, [F#] E, C [D#m] sharp, D sharp, [G#] E, D [F#m] sharp, C sharp, _ [F] _ C, [F#]
C sharp.
And it's a good idea to follow the fingerings that I'm using most of the time because I've
usually thought them out and made [F] them so that they're going to be the easiest [F#m] way to play it.
Now what your left hand does during [F] this time [G] is really [C] easy, but it moves around.
[G#] So what I [F#m] do is I put my hand in this [G#] _ A chord [A] position.
_ So it's ready to play these three notes.
_ _ And that's what I play.
A, _ _ E, _ A, and [C] I move it down to E.
Keep the same [G] shape, [A#] just move your [C] fingers down to
E and do the [E] same thing.
E, B, E, [G] and then move it down again to A.
[A] _ _ A, E, E, A, and [C] then you move right up to
the black keys right to the [G#] left.
_ G sharp, [D#] D sharp, [G#] G sharp.
So [F#] let's do that one more time.
_ _ Keep the same shape.
It'll be really easy to do [A] then.
A, E, A, _
[E] E, _ B, E, _ [A] A, _ E, A, [G#] _
G sharp, D sharp, G sharp. _
_ Now [Dm] if we put that together nice and [F#m] slow, _ _ _ I don't think I'll say any [Em] of the names because
there's two hands, but we'll put it together nice and [B] slow.
And _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [G#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ on C sharp _
[G] with these fingers because of where I'm going [C#] next. _ _
[F#m] _ [A#] So, what I do next _
_ [D#m] is [C] I play, this is [F#] the verse.
So we [C] start out like this.
I'll play it [C#m] for you.
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] And this is really repetitive.
_ It does it four times.
So I'm not going to play it for you again.
_ [F] So that does it four times. _
[Cm] So [F] how we do it, [C] starting with, we'll start with the left hand here.
[G] We [C#] go C sharp, G sharp, and then the right hand comes in.
_ And then [B] _ B, G sharp, right hand.
_ _ _ [A] A, right hand, right hand.
_ [Em] E, right hand, [A] right hand.
A, right hand, _ [C#] G sharp, [G#] right hand, right hand.
And then it [C#] repeats.
C, _ _ right hand. _ _
_ [B] B, G sharp. _ _ _
_ [Am] A, right hand.
[A] _ E, right hand.
_ A, right hand, [C#] G sharp.
_ So what happens in the right hand [C] there is, I'll just pay attention to the right hand.
[C#m] _ _
_ E, B.
_ [B] _ _
_ _ _ [E] E, B. _
_ [A] _ _ _ E, B.
_ E, B. _ _
E, [E] B.
_ _ [G#] F sharp, G sharp.
_ And then it repeats the whole thing.
So let's go through [A] both hands, since there's nothing [C] happening at the exact same time.
And I'll say all the note names. _
[C#m] C sharp, G sharp, E, B.
_ _ [B] _ B, G [E] sharp, E, B.
_ _ _ [A] _
A, E, B.
E, _ E, B.
A, _ E, [E] B.
[G#] G sharp, [F#] F sharp, G sharp.
And then [G#] it goes back to the beginning of the pattern. _
[C#m] C sharp. _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ And then, you should probably have it by then, [C] or at least have some of an idea how to do that.
_ [E] So, [Am] later on I will be [F] doing the [Am] chorus, which [F] is in C sharp major, [B] which means it has _ a lot of sharps in it.
[F#] _ _ _ _ _
[C] And then it goes back to E major.
So, [B] _ _
[A#] we'll do the chorus later, but hopefully [E] _
this shows you enough to get started.
Thanks for watching!