Chords for Ships in the Night- Mat Kearney piano lesson Todd Downing

_ Hey everybody, I will play you just a little bit of this song and then I'll teach it to
you right [F#m] afterwards. _ _ _ _ _
Locked ships in the night, keep [Dm] passing me by, [A] just wasting time, trying to prove who's right.
[F#m] _ _ _ _
Cool, just kind of keep the song going.
_ Cool little part.
_ Here's a couple ideas on doing it.
I'm doing that [A] octave and _ _ then I have the sustain pedal down so it's like, _ _ _ _ _ _ that goes
through a lot of it.
If that's hard to do, like an octave like that, what you can do is just kind of like, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ that will work just [F#] fine. _ _
Okay, the left hand, _ F sharp like so. _
_ _ If octaves are okay, you might want to do octaves, [F#m] that would sound cool.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] One and fives work great.
Best way to do it is with your pinky and your thumb like that.
I'm doing it like that just so you can get a good view of it.
F sharp like that, F sharp minor.
[D] D like so. _ _
A [A] like so.
_ _ _ [E] E like so.
Alright, so real slow, starting on F [F#m] sharp. _
_ [A] _ _ To [Dm] D, _ _
_ _ _ [A] to A, _ _ _ to E. _ _ _ _
Alright, just _ doing it like this, starting on [F#m] F sharp. _
_ _ _ [Dm] D. _ _ _
_ _ [A] A. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Keep on [F#] going like that.
Cool.
So those are a couple ideas on the chorus parts.
Once you get into the rapping part, that kind of goes away.
[G#] So, what you can do, I'll give [F#m] you a couple different ideas. _ _ _ _ _
So, _ let me start with a kind of like a cool one.
_ _ _ _ Okay, so starting on the rap.
Like ships and letting cannonballs fly.
Say what you [D] mean.
[A] _ Fire, [D] those friends from the mine.
[A] South, down, down the driveway.
[Em] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
You can do a pattern like that.
So here's what I'm doing there.
Because the piano is not really pronounced in that part.
So, doing that for an F sharp.
_ _ _ Same thing for [D] D.
_ _ _ [A] _ [D] A like so.
_ [A] _ _ E like so.
_ [E] _
Okay, another [F#] idea.
You can just do the same exact thing for the left and right hand.
_ _ _ Ships and not letting cannonballs fly.
[D] Say what you mean.
Turns into a fire.
Fists [A] fly from a mile to turn south.
You [E] down the driveway, me on the couch.
Chasing [F#] your dreams from the violence with grey.
Try [D] to believe.
_ _ Just kind of keep it on going.
That would be a way to do it.
Because it just repeats the pattern over and over again. _
Maybe one other idea.
_ [F#m] _
Now _ I'm just going to [G#] hit random notes [E] _ [A] _
out of those five in the right hand.
[F] _ _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ Okay.
Ships and not [C#m] letting cannonballs fly.
[A] Say what you mean.
Turns into a fire.
Fists fly from a [Em] mile to turn south.
You [A] down the driveway, me on [B] the couch.
[A] _ Chasing your dreams from the violence with grey.
Try to believe.
Cool.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ So, doing it from a singer's perspective.
_ [F#m] Those are a couple different ideas on ways you can play by ear.
Put a backing track if you were going to sing along with it.
And then every once in a while come back to the choruses and the bridge at the end.
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ Love that about music.
That's a pretty [Fm] easy little pattern and it just sounds cool.
I like when people can take _ simple ideas and come up with cool stuff on them.
Anyway, that's how to play that song.
And the piano part that's going in it.
So, decently easy.
And I hope it's kind of helpful.
And helps you kind of play it if you're kind of a singer or you just kind of want to