Chords for How to Play "Tubular Bells" (from "The Exorcist") by Mike Oldfield | HDpiano (Part 1) Piano Tutorial

[Eb] Hey everyone, welcome to HD Piano, this [A] is Joe.
Today's lesson [Eb] is all about Tubular Bells
by Mike Oldfield, popularized by the film The Exorcist.
[Ab] Also just popular in its own right as a track.
Very, [E] very popular studio album.
Definitely in the UK, maybe in the US and elsewhere.
Made Richard Branson rich for the first time.
Right, without further ado, here it is.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Right, there we have it.
So, very repetitive in the right hand,
it's that really, really, really distinctive,
famous theme that just keeps going and going and going.
So let's do that first of all.
So you come in on the pickup measure of the first bar,
or the previous bar to the first bar,
which is coming in on four ands.
One and two and three and four and one, [Ab] like that.
E, and E's sort of like the recurring note,
it's almost like the anchor in the right hand
because it happens quite a few times per phrase.
So we go, [E] and one and two [A] and three and.
So up a fourth from four and to beat [Ab] one on A.
[E] And one [Em] and two [Dm] and three and.
[E] Coming back to E on each offbeat.
And one, up to [Eb] B, and [A] G, A, melodic, okay?
_ So, that's what it does.
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ That is the opening bar of the song.
Then, finger four on C on beat four and.
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[Am] and one and [G] two and three and four and one, okay?
[Gm] Next beat after that is [Bm] D on beat one and of the next bar.
This next bar is only three beats long.
So you've had a bar of four,
and now you've got a bar of three.
And this pattern keeps recurring,
but not quite as simple as it just recurring
one after the other, one after the other.
It's separated by another _ set of pulses,
which I'll explain in a sec.
So, [A] and one [E] and two [A] and three and [F] four and [A] one and two.
This is the bar of three now.
So, you go [Fm] and one and [Gb] two and three and.
And on that three and, E started again.
So, we just got to [A] back to that again.
So, and one and [Am] two and three and four and one and two
and three and one.
So, bar four followed by bar three.
Next, two bars of four.
And one and two and three and four and one and two
and three [E] and four and.
So, the only difference is instead of [Am] going on three and,
three and start again, like we did in the [F] previous phrase,
phrase one, we now go [Em] three and four start again
on four and on the E.
So, that phrase _
[E] and one [B] and two [Em] and three and four
and one and two and three and four and start again.
And literally copy and paste, copy and paste,
[Am] copy and paste four times for the whole of this first video.
So, at speed, _ [Em] _
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_ _ _ _ _ I suppose what you'll notice is the bars
of three that come at the first phrase.
So, there's two phrases, okay?
And the first one has a bar of three halfway through, okay?
That sounds like it ends abruptly.
And that's the intention, I suppose. _
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_ _ _ _ So, once you've got to that point,
you just repeated each of those phrases,
the four, four, three, four and the four, four, four, four,
followed by repeating all of that, okay?
So, you repeated those phrases twice.
You get into playing in unison.
But you don't play entirely in unison
because your left hand has a little bit of a rest partway through.
So, on this final bar of four,
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] it joins in on that four and E.
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[A] _ But then it holds on to this A until our next instruct,
which is actually when we go to the [Am] next last quaver
of the bar, last eighth note of the bar, E,
to get us into the next bit.
So, _ and [E] one and two [Em] and [Am] three and four
and [D] one and two [Am] and three and one, [Em] two, _
_ four and one and two and [Am] three and four and one.
[Ab] You see?
That's what it's doing.
So, useful fingers here.
When you're playing in the right hand,
[C] that C should always be played with finger four.
When you're playing in the left hand,
[A] five and then two.
They're the only ones you [E] really need to think about.
Everything else can just map its way around.
So, this is the second half of the video.
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_ _ Okay.
So, all that happened at the end there
is I stuck a crotchet, or sorry, a whole note,
a semi-breve on the first crotchet of the last bar.
So, like this. _ _ _ _
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Like that.
And that's the end of the section.
Right, without interruptions, here we go. _
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_ [Eb] All right, there we have it.
Section one of Tubular Bells.
On to section two.
[Dm] Right hand's extremely similar.
Left hand, not so [D] similar.
[Eb] Okay, this has been Joe.
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