Chords for Erykah Badu | Back In The Day | Piano Tutorial

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, [Db] _ _ [Cm] _ [Eb] _ _
_ oh, oh, oh, oh, [C] _ oh, [Eb] oh, _ _ _ [Db] _ [Cm] oh, oh, [Eb] oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, _
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_ oh, oh, [Db] _ _ _ [Eb] _
oh, oh, [Gm] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, [Db] _ [Cm] oh
[Eb] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, [C] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, [Eb] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
There's _ _ only [Db] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ [Db] actually _ [Bb] _ a couple of chords so uh [B] we can start with the intro.
The intro [Bb] is just
_ [G] _
_ _ [Bb] _ Uh, so it's a G minor a seven [G] arpeggiated chord you go to a G augmented
and _ _ arpeggiate that and [Fm] lastly you go into this [Db] D flat major 7 without the root and that's
arpeggiated too.
Sounds [Bb] like.
_ _ _ [Fm] _
_ And then it [Eb] goes into the main theme. _ _ _
_ [Db] _ _ [C] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Db] _ [Gm] So what that is
is actually, [C] and I don't even know exactly how this works, but the root is an F _ _ and in
the right hand you're playing [Bb] basically a C minor [Gb] 7 with this added 9 [Gm] and the voice
you want to do is this. _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ I'm not sure how that works.
It's [Bb] a C minor 7 [F] with F in the root
but it's acting as the home [Bb] base.
So this is the root chord.
But [Gb] anyways, then it goes
to G [G] augmented.
_ [Gm] So it goes, _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [G] _ and that left hand run [Gb] is [Eb] with _
[Gm] _ [G] your G [B] augmented chord in
the right hand.
[N] Then it goes up to a D flat major 7 with this [Db] 9 _ and _ _ _ [Cm] down to a C7 with
this sharp 9 here.
So it's a C7 altered [Db] chord.
_ [C] [Bb] I don't know how that works.
I [N] mean that's
just your, basically [Bb] if your root is F minor 7 [Gb] you want to end the sequence at a C7 [Bb] because
that's going to want to [Ab] resolve down back to [Bb] that F.
So [Ab] what she did is she just goes
up a half step [Db] to the D flat major 7 and [C] then transitions down to that _ _ C7 which has
the tension and then wants [Bb] to resolve down to that [Eb] F.
And it's [Db] sort of kind of almost
like a [Gm] weird 2-5-1 kind of thing going [G] on because you got the G [G] augmented _ [C] up to a C
altered and then [Bb] back down to the F with the C minor 7.
It's weird.
I don't even know how
it works but _ [F] I'm still thinking about it honestly.
But you know [B] that's how it goes.
[Db] _ [B] The [Gm] second time it goes, same thing.
_ [Eb] _ [Db] But here you're just playing this D major 7 with the
added 9 here like this.
[F] And it doesn't go down to the C.
[Db] It just stays on here.
And
then [Gm] the last time [B] it actually goes just to a C [C] major 7.
_ _ [Em] _ _
Maybe that [C] 6 and that 9 there.
And that's just sitting [Bb] in loops like this.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [C] [Eb] C7. _
E _ [Db] _ _ [Gm] major 7. _
D flat actually.
[Db] _ _ [Bb] _ [Gm] _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ That's that
C major 7.
That's the whole song.
There you have it.
Erykah Badu's Back in the Day all
worked out for you in advance.
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