Chords for You've Got a Friend in Me [Part One] - Piano Tutorial

[N] Hey guys, I'm going to teach you You've Got a Friend in Me today.
[G] So I'm going to start with the intro.
[Eb] It goes like this. _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Bbm] _
_ [D] _ _ The right hand starts like [Eb] this.
_ [B] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
[Db] I'm just going to take that [N] part real quick.
_ [Gm] How that goes is [Cm] it's G, [Eb] Bb, E, F.
[Db] So you just [Eb] go, _ _ [G] you kind of roll your fingers [Eb] across it, _ _ _ [Db] and then you kind of jump up to the [Gb] F sharp
with your ring finger to make it sound kind of jazzy.
[Eb] _ _ _
_ [G] Then you [Db] go to B and G, [G] which is right here.
_ [B] _ _ [F] _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ [G] _ And _ _ then you [Db] scoot down to G and Eb. _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gb] So what you should have so far is_
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ The next part goes like this.
[Db] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _
[Db] _ _ _ [Bb] So what that is is just a bunch of [Db] two note chords [Gm] kind of sliding down.
It's A and F [D] sharp. _
_ Then you [Dbm] scoot down a half step on each [N] note _
[Gm] to Ab and [Db] F. _ _ _ _
_ Then you [Ab] scoot down to G and [Eb] Eb,
and _ [F] then G and [Eb] Bb, _
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ Gb and [Gbm] A, _ _ [Ab] and F and [Db] Ab.
I know that's really hard to [D] see.
_ _ [Db] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Db] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And [Gm] then you have this little_
_ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ And what that [F] is is real quick.
It's just [G] G, [Eb] _ Db, and Eb, and [Gb] then F sharp, [Dm] A and D, _ _ _ [Db] Ab, Db.
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [D] So how the whole intro should [F] sound really slowly, for the right hand at [G] least, is_
[Eb] You _ [Gb] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ [Eb]
get _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] that down really well _ [F] before you try to put in the left hand.
Because the left hand [Db] should sound like [Eb] this. _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Db] Okay, so the [Eb] notes are Eb _ down here, [Ebm] and then you go all the way up.
[Eb] It's two octaves up. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ It's a jump.
It goes to Bb and Eb, and then you go from [D] D _ to B and [B] F, _ _ _ then [C] _ _ to C and Eb.
[Cm] _ _ _ [Bbm] Let's just start with that [Eb] part first.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] And then it [Ab] goes down to B.
[B] _ _ _ _ That's just two octave jump.
_ Then it slides down to [Bb] Bb, and then back up to B and Eb.
_ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
So [F] it should be starting at the beginning.
[N] _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
Okay, and then it [Eb] goes Eb. _
_ _ [Bb] So you do a [Eb] little jump right there.
It's _ [Bb] Bb, _ Bb. _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] Now what we're going to do is [Ab] combine them, and this is definitely the hardest part,
and [G] it took me a really long time, [Gb] so don't be discouraged [F] if you don't get it right away.
[Db] Here's how it should sound together [Eb] really slowly. _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Ebm] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Db] So something that may or may not help you that [Gbm] kind of helped me when I was learning [N] it
_ _ _ [C] is for [Db] the left hand, just [Gb] stick with the bottom note.
[F] Don't jump around.
At first, just go [Eb] from Eb, [D] _ Db, [C] C, E, [Bb] _ Bb, [Eb] Bb. _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Db] That might just help you with rhythm a little bit.
I'll show you how that sounds together.
[Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ [Bb] _ Okay, _ _ if that doesn't help [Gm] you, then don't do it that way.
Just practice this way.
_ [N] _ _ _ _
If you need to, also what you can do is instead of doing [Eb] a full two octave jump, you can start
[F] your bass note right [Eb] here.
This Eb instead of this one.
So you can go from here. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
It's the same exact notes that I just [Db] taught you, but it's instead of [Eb] down here. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Ab] That also helped me when I was learning to kind of, [F] so I didn't have to look where I was going.
It kind of helped me.
And then once I got that down, then I moved down to here.
But how that
sounds is [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Bb] just_
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D]
But I mean, it really [F] sounds a lot better with the bass note down here, but just
for learning [Eb] purposes, you can use _ _ either of those methods, either [Gb] by just playing the bass note down
here or playing [Dm] it up here with _ [Db] this part.
Those should help you learn it, but ultimately you want
to try [Eb] to aim _ [D] for_
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _
[D] _ _ _ Okay, _ so that was the intro to the song.
I really hope it helped you out a
little bit.
Let me know if it did.
I'll be posting the other parts too.
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