Chords for Top Gun Theme Piano Tutorial HD

_ [E] [C#] Okay, William, _ the first thing that we're going to work on today is the scale of C.
Top Gun is recorded and written, played in the scale, in the key of C.
And so the
notes that you need to worry about for right now are the ones starting on C.
So
the scale is like this.
[C] Starts on C.
_ _ [D] It's [F] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [N] pretty simple.
Okay, so they're the notes
that we're going to use today first.
Okay, it does key change up into the key of G
flat.
Okay, just for your reference, that starts on G flat and it sounds like
[G#] this.
_ [A#] _ [C#m] _ _
[C#] _ [F#m] _ Okay, _ [N]
and then of course it goes [Am] back. _ _ _
So that's the [C#m] basic idea of the key for
our song today.
Now the chords that go to Top Gun are these ones.
Okay, [C] the first
one is C chord.
You figure that one out by playing C, E, and G.
Okay, so if you're
counting the numbers, it's one, two, three, four, five.
So, note one, note three, and note five.
Okay, so that's C.
The next one we're going to use is D minor.
That's just everything [Dm] up one note.
So it goes D, F, and A.
[C] Okay, of course you can use your D
bass in [Dm] this hand.
[C] _
There's C, [D] _ and there's D minor.
Okay, [G#m] so then the chords for the start of Top Gun are [C] C, _ D [F] minor, _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [G] and then G chord.
G [C#m] chord is essentially [G] G, B, and D.
Same numbers as the C chord, one, three, and five, but you probably want to take the D note right here and put it down.
Okay, just it might sound real good in this [C] arrangement.
But as you go through, keep the C bass even with the D minor chord.
It adds a bit of texture, that tension that we talked about the other day.
Okay, so here we go.
I'll show you the start.
Starting on C chord, going to D minor chord, back to C chord, and G chord, but taking that D and putting it at the bottom.
Here's what it sounds like.
_ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [C] _ [F] _ _ [C] _
[G] _ Okay, now [C] you do that twice.
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [C] _ [F] _ [C] _ _ [G]
Okay, [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [F] _ [C] _ [G] _
_ [C] [N] so that's your introduction.
Now the cool thing about this is the introduction is actually the same chord cadence as the first two parts of the song.
Okay, so you can play the same thing and just integrate the melody in there.
Okay, so listen, I'll play the introduction, which is that cadence, through twice, and then notice that as the melody comes in, it's actually the same cadence, the chord progression that we just did for the introduction.
Okay, so watch that.
[C] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [C] _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [C]
Here we go with the melody.
_ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#] Okay, so it's exactly the same thing when we go up to G flat.
Now, this is going to be a little harder to do if you haven't ever played in G flat before.
It's using just about all of the black keys, just except a couple.
So, take the time and learn that scale, the one that I taught you just a minute ago.
Okay, so starting on [G#] G flat, _ [A#] _ [C#m] _
_ [F#] _ _ the keys just for your reference are G flat, [G#] A flat, [A#] B flat, [B] B [C#m] natural, D flat, [D#m] E flat, [Fm] F [F#m] natural, [C] and of course, back to G flat at the very top.
[Em] Okay, so _ the chords, like I explained before, are one, three, and [F#] five.
Okay, so there's your G flat chord, and then [G#m] you [C] go up [C#] and you count one, three, and five from your [Fm] D, but the third [N] one is a flat, okay?
So, you just work through that.
It sounds [F#] like this.
_ _ _ [G#] _
_ [F#] _ _ [G#m] _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ [B] _ [F#] _ _
Okay, now, we're back to C again, [C] okay?
[E] And we're going to do that stepping up in the bass.
So, the first bass [C] note is C, [D] then we step up to D, [E] then we step up to E, then [F] we step up to F, [E] [G] then G.
Then we do a quick little jump from G to A flat to A, so [G#] [A] like that.
[N] Okay, so this is what it sounds like.
[C] _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [F] _ [C] _ Right there, even though you're playing C chord in this hand, you're doing a G in the bass just to give it [G] texture.
And then here we jump up to the A [G#] minor.
[Am] _ _ _ _ [A#] Okay, this is the first chord in the whole song, it's just a bit different.
And it's the B flat chord, okay?
And so, the notes are B flat, D, and F, okay?
And you use that B flat in the bass just to add some really cool sound to the bass then.
[C] _
So, _ [Am] _ _ _ [A#] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ now that little part that [N] we start out with on C, and it does the octave.
Now we're doing an A minor chord.
Remember we talked the other day about relative minors?
Well, the relative minor for C chord is A minor, okay?
So, that's the one we're going to choose to use here.
So, that's going to [Am] start out. _
_ _ _ [C] _ _
Back to C, then back to D [Gm] minor.
[Dm] _ _
_ _ _ We're going to do an [F] F chord here, but to add texture, let's keep it G bass all the way through, all the way up.
[G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [B] [Cm] And then we'll go back to the start.
And so that, my friend, is Top Gun. _