Chords for Work Out - J. Cole (Piano Lesson by Matt McCloskey)

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So your basic chord progression that's going to be playing during the verses and for most
of the song is going to go as follows in the right hand.
_ [Dm] _ That's a D minor, [C] _ _ C major, [Gm] _ _
G minor, [Bb] _ _ B flat [Am] major, A major, or excuse me, A minor, [Dm] and
then it's back to D minor.
[N] You'll notice that it doesn't get played _ during the entire duration of the verses.
A lot of times the backing track just kind of falls out and J.
Cole is left alone with
this little just drum kit behind him, but you'll have to listen to the parts in the
song where this actually shows up.
There's one other little transition you're going to need to know when J.
Cole's talking
about like four-door Fords or Escorts or something like that.
The right hand for that part is going to go as follows as a lead into the progression
that I just showed you.
[Bb] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] So with the [Ab] progression that I showed you before, your left hand is going to be playing this.
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] Putting those two parts together along with that little [Am] _ [Dm] _
[N] transition thing that I showed
you, this is what you should have for your verses.
[Bb] _ _ [Am] _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Am] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Am] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ Those are your verses.
_ [N] Now there's two overlapping vocal lines from the chorus that you're going to have to learn.
The first one is J.
Cole's, we got a good thing, don't know if I'm going to see you
again, something like that.
That's going to [Gm] go as follows in the right hand. _
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
With that, your left hand is going to be playing the exact same part it was playing, putting
those two parts together.
This is J.
Cole's vocal line [Dm] from the chorus.
_ _ [G] _ [Dm] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Am] _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [N] And then underneath it, I really like this, thumbs up if you agree, but this is an old
school, I think it's a talk box, I'm almost positive, but it's going underneath, it sounds
like do do do [C] do do do do.
[F]
And then at the end of it, it goes work out for me, work out for me.
That vocal line in its entirety is going to go underneath J.
[G] Cole's and in the right hand,
[C] it's going to sound like this.
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ [G] _ [C] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] Work out for me, work out for me.
[N] Putting those two parts together, or that part and the same left hand we had before,
this is the talk box line that goes underneath J.
Cole's vocal line.
_ [D] _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Dm] _
_ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] And there you have it, Work Out by J.
Cole.
_ [Bb] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Am] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Am] _
_ [G] _ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [A] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [A] _
_ [E] _ _ [C] _ [D] _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [A] _
[D] _ _ [Am] _ [D] _ [C] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _
[D] _ [Am] _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[G] _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [A] _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [A] _ [D] _ [Dbm] _ _ [N] _