Chords for Game of Thrones Theme | EASY Violin Tutorial

Hi everybody, welcome back.
My name is Alison the On-Note Piano and the On-Note Violin Tutor.
Today is a very long-awaited and
super exciting video because I'm going to be taking you through the tutorial of Game of Thrones.
So I've actually done a music video of this and if you want to see that, that will be coming up in a link here.
If you're on a mobile device and you can't get annotations, there'll be a link to it directly underneath.
But it's a particularly good music video and I'm really pleased with it and I think you guys will like it.
So go and watch that performance video because it's really cool.
And in the meantime, if you want to know where to get this music, I've done a simplified version for you.
There'll be a link in the description bar directly underneath this video.
It's free as always.
So download, print that out, grab your copy and let's get going.
Okay, so as I said before, this is a simplified version that I've kind of arranged myself.
I've put on there, you've got a little bit of an intro, a verse and what I kind of broke down as the chorus.
This isn't strictly the structure of the actual [C] film,
but it's completely up to you how many [N] times through you want to play each part and everything,
which is why I've divided it into intro, verse and [Ab] chorus.
So if you want to play the intro a couple of times,
you know where that starts and finishes.
If you want to play the verse again after the chorus,
you know where that starts and finishes and all that kind of thing.
Or if you want to just play it all the way through again, [G] it's completely up to you.
So let me take you through a little bit of the [D] intro.
_ _ [G] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab]
Okay, so the first thing [N] is that you've got an open A and an open D.
That's great.
Then you've got a second finger for F.
Now for the first one, two, three, four bars, your second finger,
this is important, your second finger is going to be close to the first finger.
For the next four bars, for the F sharp, as you can see there's now a sharp,
your second finger is going to be close to your third finger.
And that's really important.
Otherwise, you know, the sound of it won't change.
If you want to use fourth fingers for [G] the A instead of an [A] open A,
that would be [G] better because it's going to avoid some string crossings.
If I was probably doing this myself in a recording, I would probably use the fourth finger.
But I use the two open A, or the open A and the open D [A] just for demonstration purposes.
So if I used four, [Dm] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] so I'll give you a close up of that.
[Dm] _ _
_ _ [G] Back.
[Dm] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ [E] So that's the difference.
So that's the first part.
Then you go to the [Ab] verse.
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ [A] _
_ [Dm] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ So again, your second fingers are [N] all going to be back apart from those four second fingers
where you have the sharp in front of it from bars four to eight.
Everything else is going to be back.
And again, if you want to use fourth fingers instead of open strings, that's entirely up to you.
But of course, open strings do make it easy.
When you get to bar 13, you've got an E which is tied for four dotted minims or four dotted half notes.
So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve beats.
That's quite a long time.
If you want to break that down into kind of six and [G] six and that's up to you.
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, [Cm] twelve.
One, _ _ two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
[A] So you can break that down [Em] into two.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, [B] eight, nine.
The only thing I wouldn't do is play one, two, three, one, two, three, [E] one, because then it'll sound. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] Because it should be [B] one continuous note with the notes before it,
you can help prepare the bow and make sure that you're either at the point of the bow
or at the heel of the bow [G] to make sure that you can try and get all of those beats.
But just play around with it and just see if you can try and hold the bow
or make the bow go as slowly as possible without losing sound.
So you don't want to be _ going_
Nobody wants to hear that.
So the key is [E] to try and keep it slow enough.
_ _ _ _ While still [B] _ keeping a clear, consistent sound.
So you might want to have some flat bow at that point. So_ _ _ _ _ _
But it's just a combination of how much weight you're putting on the bow
to how fast the arm is going, and that's just down to practice.
So you've got quite a [N] few tied notes.
So each time you come across those tied notes, it's going to be exactly the same.
_ I'll take you through a little bit of the chorus,
which is probably the best [Ab] bit really, isn't it?
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ _
[Em] So the second fingers are still [G] back.
And don't forget, you've got a first finger back as well.
[D] It does say in the music as [Ab] well, I've put a note there.
So those first fingers are going to be back from the chorus, _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [N] back against the ridge, quite far [Gb] back.
_ _ [G] _ _ [Am] Another [G] back second finger on the G [Bbm] string. _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ Up to you if you want to do an open [Db] A or a fourth [G] finger.
But can you see I'm at the point of the bow?
So that means_
_ [B] _
_ _ _ [D] That means I've got enough [B] bow.
And that's pretty much it.
I think those notes are pretty self-explanatory.
Going to the end of it, [D] you've got_
_ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So [Ab] that's just like that little harp [B] bit that goes at the end.
So again, the [Eb] second fingers are back.
And it's up to you if you want to do a [G] fourth finger for that D.
_ _ [D] _
_ [N] _ _ Keep it all on the G string.
That's entirely up to [Gb] you.
Or to kind of simulate the [D] harp, you could_
[G] _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
[B] You know, completely up to you.
So there we go.
And I really hope you enjoyed the Game of Thrones tutorial
and can't wait for season five to start.
Thank you for watching and