Chords for 4 Piano Songs That Are PERFECT For Beginners

[F] What's up my piano friends?
Today I got four super simple songs that are absolutely perfect
even [Dm] for complete beginners.
And I'm not talking about Mary Had a Little Lamb or [Am] Chopsticks either.
_ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ [Bb] I'm talking real songs from the radio that just happen to be [F] super easy to play on piano.
And
along the way you're going to learn some music theory, some basic rhythms, and build some finger
dexterity.
Make sure you [Dm] stick around to the end.
The last song is super romantic.
It's the perfect
[Bb] song to play for your husband, wife, girlfriend, or you know that cute girl from Starbucks that
you're too scared to talk to.
I'm talking to you Billy!
[N] All right enough jokes let's get on to the
first song Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars.
So instead of using complicated sheet music you
actually only have to learn these four chord shapes up here and just copy them to the keyboard.
It's way easier.
So if you [G] look at the chords we have G major looks like this and then E [Em] minor
and then C [C] major and then back to the first chord [G] G major.
_ And these four chords simply
repeat over and over and over throughout the entire song.
Now watch how easy this actually is.
So if we start out on our G major chord and then we move to our second chord E minor,
[Em] the only note that changes [G] is this bottom note right.
So this is G [Em] major, E minor, [G] G major,
[Em] E minor.
[G] These top two notes stay the same [Em] G major, E minor.
So it's actually very simple.
Then when
we go from E minor [C] to C major again just this top note is changing.
[Em] So we have E minor, C major,
E minor, C major.
These bottom two notes stay the same so again it's very easy.
And then [G] finally our
last chord we just go back to G major which we've already learned.
So now we have our four chords
G major, [Em] E minor, [C] C major, [G] and G major.
Now all we're going to do to make this sound really cool
is just play each chord shape four times.
So we have G two three four and then [Em] E minor two three
four and [C] then C major two three four and [G] finally G major two three four.
And now you can play _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ the
because [C] you're amazing _ just the way [G] you are.
_ And [N] boom you repeat these same four chord shapes and
you can play the entire song.
All right so next up we got Hello by Adele.
Super easy song to learn.
So if you're liking this style of teaching go ahead and smash that like button it really helps
out the channel.
All right so for Hello by Adele we have four new chord shapes except you'll notice
they're not really all that new because a few of them are actually the same chords we already
learned for Just the Way You Are.
All right so first we have [Em] E minor _ then [G] G major then D [D] major
and then finally C [C] major. _
[Em] And when you're learning these I highly suggest you look for similar notes
between the chords just like we did for the first song.
It'll make it a lot easier to learn.
Now for
this song I'm going to teach you a basic rhythm to make it sound more like the actual song.
So if
heard the song Hello by Adele it sounds like this. _ _
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ [C] _ So you notice the rhythm [Em] is da [G] da _ [D] da [C] da.
If you're having trouble with the rhythm you can try clapping it along first so it sounds like this.
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And _ _ _ _ _ _ we play that rhythm [Em] over the chords it's going to sound like this.
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] Hello it's me _ [C]
and [Em] I've been [G] wondering if after all [D] these years you'd [C] like me [Em] to go [G] over _ [D] everything.
_ [C] _ [Ab] And boom you can repeat these same chords over and over and now you can play Hello by Adele.
Now I
know what you're thinking you're thinking Zach your voice is so amazing why don't you sign up
for American Idol Adam Levine would totally turn his chair around for you.
And they actually invited
me to sing on the show but I'm like sorry Usher I can't do your little show I have to teach people
how to play piano on YouTube.
_ Alright enough with the jokes let's get back to the piano.
Alright next
up we got a newer song Shivers by Ed Sheeran.
I've been absolutely jamming out to this one like crazy
lately.
Alright so here are the chord shapes and as you'll notice you've actually already learned
all of these [Em] chords in the first two songs so this should be very easy to get the hang of.
Alright so first we got E minor _ then C [C] major then G [G] major and finally [D] D major.
And for this song
all we're going to do is we're going to play each chord two times.
[Em] So one two [C] one two [G] one two [D] one
two.
And now you can play.
[Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _
_ Or if you want a bit of a challenge you can actually jam out and create any rhythm you want so that it sounds more like this.
[Em] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _
But that's more advanced so don't worry about that if you're a complete beginner you can always get
to the more advanced stuff later.
Alright next up we got the most romantic song on the list and this one is actually super easy to learn.
But first I actually have a cheat sheet for you that has all four of these songs with the chord shapes.
That way you can put up on your piano and have these four songs for the rest of your life.
So to get that just click the link in the upper right or in the description.
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [G] Alright on to song number four Perfect by Ed Sheeran.
And as you'll notice guess what it uses the same
chords we've already learned in the other songs just in a different order.
Alright so we have G major
then E [Em] minor then C [C] major and then D [D] major.
And for this one we're simply going to play each chord
four times.
[G] So we have G two three four [Em] E minor two three four [C] C major two three four [D] and D major
two three four.
And now it's going to sound like this.
_ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
Or of course if you're more advanced you can jam out just feel the music and create your own rhythm.
Maybe you create something like this.
[G] And I found love _ _ _ [Em] for me
_ _ And darling [C] just dive right in and follow [D] my lead
_ And I [G] found a girl _
Anyway _ feel free to take this at your own pace.
And if you like this video you're going to
absolutely love the [F] next one.
It'll give you one secret chord progression that you can literally
copy and paste to play hundreds of your favorite songs from the radio.
It's called learn four chords
learn hundreds of songs.
Plus it'll give you the left hand and some money patterns you can use to
really spice things up.
So click here for that video and I'll see you in the next one.