Chords for How To Play Best Friend By Rex Orange County On Piano - Piano Tutorial (PART 1)

[G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [Bm] Hi everyone, I'm Elijah D.
Welcome [A] to Music Greatness.
This is Head Hundred and today we're going to break down another song from Rex [Bm] Orange
County and this one is called Best Friend.
Sounds like this. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ There you go.
For the first part of the lesson, we're going to focus on the intro.
We're in the key of F sharp for this one and we start by playing F sharp major 7.
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ So that's octave F sharp on my left hand _ and my right hand plays F sharp major 7, C sharp,
F and A sharp.
So notice here I'm not playing the root.
_ I dropped the [Fm] root from my right hand chord and I'm simply playing the major 7th right
[F#] here in the middle.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Then next what I'm going to do is simply switch [Fm] this F, so the major 7th of my chord [F#] and play E [E] instead.
_ So the dominant 7.
And now I'm playing F sharp 7.
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Following that F sharp 7, I'm going [B] to play B major 7.
_ _ _ _ That's B and F sharp for my left hand.
Then A sharp, D sharp and F sharp again for my right hand. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Then I have a 2-5 progression.
So I'm going to go [F#] to the 2 of F sharp.
[G#] _ That's G sharp.
_ _ [G#m] _
G sharp minor 7 to be precise.
G sharp and D sharp for my [G#] left hand.
_ _ Then F sharp, [F#] the 7th, [G#m] B, the minor 3rd and then D sharp, the 5th. _
_ _ _ So that's the 2, G sharp minor 7.
And for the 5 [C#] I have _ C sharp 7 with a flat 9.
That's octave C sharp on my left hand.
Right hand plays [G#m] G sharp, B [G#]
and then natural [C#] D.
The flat 9 [G#m] sorry. _
[D] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
Then I'm going to go back to the very first chord of my [F#] progression.
So F sharp major 7 and _ _ _ _ following that F sharp major 7, I'm going to play F sharp 9.
_ _ _ _ _ Alright so if you noticed, I simply switched my F to an E and _ _ my A sharp to a G sharp.
[E] _ _
The rest of [F#] the notes in the bottom are still the same. _
_ _ [G#] Okay so you have [F#] F sharp major 7, _ then F sharp 9, _ _ _ going to B major 7 [B] again. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Then I have G sharp minor 7 again but this time [G#m] _ _ _ _
I'm going to play it this way.
So now I have octave G sharp on my left [G#] hand and on my right I [G#m] still have F sharp, B and D sharp. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A#] Then before ending the intro and playing the 5 chord, we have a quick passing [D] chord. _ _ _
One half step above C sharp, that's D9, octave D left hand, _ F sharp, C and then E on my right.
_ _ [C#] And then shortly after that we have C sharp 9, _ _ _ _ octave C sharp, _ F, B and D sharp.
_ _ _ _ And that's how we're going to end this intro.
_ _ We can go through the chords again.
We start by playing F sharp major [F#] 7, _ _ _ _ _ then switch this F to an E to play F sharp 7 to _ _ _ _ _ _ B [B] major 7.
_ _ _ Then we have the 2 5, G sharp minor [G#m] 7 to C sharp 7 with a flat [C#] 9. _ _ _ _
_ Going back to F sharp major [F#] 7, _ _ _ followed by F sharp 9 this time, _ _ _ _ B major [B] 7, _ _ _ G sharp minor [G#m] 7, _ _
going to [D] D9 and ending on C sharp [C#] 9.
_ _ _ For the rhythm now, the pattern is pretty [F#] simple.
So I'm going to play the whole progression _ and count at the same time.
_ Alright? _
3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 [B] 1 2 3 [G#m] 4 1 _ [C#] 3
_ [F#] _ _ _
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 [B] 4 1 2 3 4 [G#m] 1 [D] 2 [C#] 3 4
Now _ _ _ _ _ _ _ for the [F#] recap, let's replay the whole intro at full speed. _
_ _ _ _ _ 2 3 4 _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [G#m] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [G#m] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ _ _ And that's for the first part.
If you want to learn the rest of the song, so the chorus, the verse, [A] the bridge and also the ending,
you can head over to MusicGreatness [Bm].com.
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