Chords for How to play ska organ - part 3

[C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
I'm going to try and teach you about playing some [N] ska.
Now with ska, the vital thing is the rhythm.
Without the rhythm, it's not ska.
It's absolutely vital that you get that right.
_ _ But what I would say is everyone's got to start somewhere.
I've been playing about ten years now.
Before ten years ago, [G] I was trying to play ska
and I was frustrated and I couldn't figure out [A] how to do it.
I [D] just practiced and practiced and [A] practiced.
Now I'm trying ska in a band
and you lovely people are watching me here on YouTube.
So _ [F] don't get disheartened.
As I [G] say, practice, practice, practice.
If you're talented at playing ska,
then there's a lot of room for more ska keyboard players
because there's not many of us at all, not many [N] keyboard players
that can do ska or at least do it well.
_ So the basics of ska, _ _ well, there's several ways of doing the rhythm.
The most simple way is you have a [Eb] chord, which you have in the right [N] hand,
and you have a bass note, which you play with the left hand.
And so it's [G] like, let's say we're playing the chord [B] of C.
That's supposed to be really [C] easy.
So that's your bass [Gm] note.
And then [C] your chord is C major, that is. _ _ _
[G] _ And this is the, I'm going to do this really slowly.
This is a rhythm you do.
[C] _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ The crucial thing [C] is the pause.
See, it's left, [Cm] right, left, right, pause.
[G] _ _ You've got to notice the pause.
If you don't do that, it's not [C] ska.
_ _ _ [G] See, I [C] can't do it now without doing it because I'm so used to it.
_ _ [G] [C] That is not ska, whereas_ _
[B] That is ska.
See, that is the key [N] to it.
That's not quite the best rhythm you can play.
There's a lot of different ways you can do it.
You can _ _ play the chord very quickly and linger on the bass note, for [C] example.
_ [E]
[Db] Or [Dm] you can do it the other way around.
[C] _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ Heartedly, I'm not that keen on either of those.
If you do the chord too quickly, then it tends to clash with the guitar,
if you've got a guitarist in the group, [C] as they play_
[N] They play those really short notes.
It's better to do [C] something like this.
_ _ I'll do it again. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] I'll do that sort of slow [C] motion for you now. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And [N] _ then, obviously, every song's got more than one chord.
Well, I haven't found one yet that's only got one [G] chord.
No, frankly, it's only got two chords.
So [C] _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ [C] it's_
_ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [A] _ I'll bugger that up at the end there.
But you get the picture, you know, basically,
at the start of a 12-bar blues type of thing. _
So, practice [C] doing that.
I'll do it higher up.
It doesn't sound very good down there.
I'll stand up as well.
_ [F] [C] I _
[G] _ _ [C] _ [N] don't like playing the keyboard sitting down, really.
So that's that.
There are other ways you can play ska. _
In fact, I will tell you some more about those later,
because there's a particular rhythm that you need to play lip-up fatty,
and that's one of the songs I'm going to be trying to [G] teach you how to play later.
_ [Gm] So what you need, basically,
[A] _ _
if you want to follow these [Bb] videos,
I'm going to assume that you [Gm] know how to play the basic chords.
[Cm] So I'm going to assume that you [Gm] know how to play a C chord, C major chord.
It's [C] the notes C, E, and [Bb] G.
If you don't [G] know the chords, then [A] let me know, and [Eb] I'll tell you them.
But you can find them on the Internet.
There's plenty of places on the Internet that will tell you which notes to play for which chord.
[Bb] I'm not going to complicate [Gm] things by saying play ninth diminished
[N] or fifth chords or any of those,
because I don't play those type of notes.
I'm only going to talk about majors and minors,
and maybe the odd seventh note.
But if you don't know the seventh chord,
then just [G] play a major, and it'll sound [E] fine.
[Bb] I mean, playing [C] seventh just adds a little bit of emphasis, _ like_
_ [N]
adds a bit of emphasis when you're changing between chords.
So, for example, in the song [C] Madness by Madness_
[F] There [C] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [N] you go.
It just adds a little bit of emphasis.
But as I say, you don't have to do that.
You're just going to have major chords and minor chords.
You're going to keep it nice and simple.
_ As I say, that's the only prior knowledge you need for this, really.
Any questions, or if there's any songs you particularly want me to teach you, let me know.
The following videos are mainly going to feature Batmanist songs,
because I've had a lot of requests for Batmanist songs.
And there's very little out there, apart from videos on YouTube of Batmanist,
there's very little out there teaching people the chords or anything.
You can't_
I mean, Specials songs, for example,
you can find [Gm] plenty of guitar tabs for the Specials,
and if you can find a guitar tab, you can usually convert it.
It's got [N] the chords, you can convert it to keyboard easily.
But there's very little out there for Batmanist.
And [D] Batmanist are one of my favourite bands of all [C] time.
Martin Stewart, their keyboard player, is very [A] underrated as a musician. _
So [Gm] I'm going to hopefully try and teach you some songs.