Chords for Whiter Shade of Pale piano chords tutorial How to Play

_ _ Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale.
A very quick tutorial.
_ I've only played this once
a minute ago so I'm just going to be fumbling through here and showing you the basics of
it.
_ _ I've got a little _ [F] _
_ organ sound on to [F#] help my terrible playing but it's in the key of
C [D] and something I want you to notice here as we go along is the bass line.
It looks
real easy.
It's just since we're not using any of the black keys really, _ _ the bass line
is doing something like this.
[B] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C]
Real primary C scale, away we go.
So [F#] watch for that as
we're moving along here.
This whole song seems to be doing that. _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _
_ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
We [Em] skip the live [Am] bandango. _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
Turn it up a notch.
[Am] When _ cartwheels [Dm] crossed the floor [F] I _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[B] was feeling _ [Em] kind of seasick. _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Em] The crowd yelled [Am] out for more.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[Am] The room was humming [Dm] louder _ [F] as _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[B] the ceiling flew [Em] away. _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [Em] We called out [A] for another [Am] drink.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[Am] The waiter brought [Dm] his tray.
_ [Dm] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
That looks like [F] about it.
It moves along like that.
I don't know if there's a chorus or
a verse.
Anyways, that's most of the song.
Just how that moves along there like that.
So again, let's go really quick through [C] the intro.
_ _ _ [E] So I showed [C] you the bottom.
_ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ [E] _ _
_ [C] _ _ Okay?
And
then up to a G.
[G] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [F] F, _ [G] G, _
_ [A] A, _ [G] G, _ _ [C] C.
_ [B] We skip the live [A] bandango.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [E] Turn cartwheels crossed the
floor.
[D] _
_ [C] _ See how that goes?
[N] Okay?
So just keep that in mind with the bass and the top part
here.
I'll write the chords up in here. _ _ _ _
_ _ C major. _ _
We [Em] skip the live [Am] bandango.
So [C] what
we're going to do, _ _ _ [Em] _ let's do it [C] that way.
C major, _ C, E, G.
In the right hand, C bass. _ _
We're going to lower the bass notes, or the C's, [B] _ _ _
_ _ [C] semitone.
_ C, [Em] _
_ _ B in the basses.
[C] See that?
So it's just these [B] two.
_ [C] C major.
_ [Em] _ _
This is really an E minor with a B bass.
[C] So C major. _
_ We skip the live _ _ [Am] bandango.
A minor.
_ Remember we're just constantly going down here this
way.
Let me put her [C] into piano and start again.
_ [Em] We skip the [Bm] live _ [A] bandango.
And we're going
to do the same thing with the A minor.
Now the A minor is [Am] A, C, E.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
Always going [F] downward.
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
Turn cartwheels [Dm] crossed the floor. _ _ _
_ Let's play it up here.
_ _ [C] So _ C, [Em] _ [Bm] drop the bass.
[Am] _
A minor,
[C] _ drop the bass.
[F] F, F, A, C. _ _ _ _
[C] Now instead of dropping the bass here, it's getting too low
and a little mushy over here on my right hand.
That E that I want to [F] drop to, so it's
[Am] F. _
I'm going to take that E and put it up [F] here.
So _ turn [Am] _
_ cartwheels [E] crossed the floor.
[Em] Same here with the D minor.
[Dm] _ _ _ _ Floor.
D, F, [Bm] A.
So we've got [D] those three D's.
_ [Dm] F and A on the
top.
Let's take the three D's down.
[F] _
See that?
D, D.
[C] _ Down to C.
_ [Dm] It's easy, but [C] it sounds
great.
_ _ [G] _ G. _
[B] I was feeling, [G] same strategy.
G major.
G, B, D.
_ _ Down to [B] F's.
I was feeling
[F] kind of seasick.
[Em] _
_ _ That's an E minor chord.
_ [E] _
_ [Em] E's, G, B.
I'm playing an E up here. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Now we're
going to drop all the E's to D's.
[G] _ _
[Em] See that?
_ Looks like a lot of notes right now scattered
around, but [G] when you're playing it, you'll know what I mean.
[Em] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ Now [Bm] a C major chord [C] again.
We know it.
_ _ _ _ [Em] I cry out loud [Am] for more.
_ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] D minor.
_ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ G.
[B]
Drop the bass.
[E] E minor.
[Em] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] C.
_ _ [Em] _ _ _
[Am] A minor.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Am] The
way to draw is [Dm] tray.
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ I believe it [C] just keeps rolling on like that.
So that's the basis
of the thing.
Very quickly again.
_ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
See how that goes?
_ [G] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ Okay.
I hope that helps