Chords for Pursuit Of Happiness - KiD CuDi featuring MGMT and Ratatat (Piano Lesson by Matt McCloskey)

Tempo:
121.65 bpm
Chords used:

C

Am

F

Em

A

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Pursuit Of Happiness - KiD CuDi featuring MGMT and Ratatat (Piano Lesson by Matt McCloskey) chords
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So you're going to want to think of your main chord progression to this song as having two
parts to it.
The first part has three chords,
[C] C major, [Am] A minor, [Em] and E minor.
[B] With that, your left hand [F] is going to be [C] playing this.
[A] [E]
[C] [A] [E]
Putting those two parts together, you should get something like this for the [C] first part
of your backing track.
[Am]
[Em] [C] [Am]
[Em]
The second part of your backing track, again, [Bb] has three [Eb] chords, [C] C, C major, this time in
a different inversion, [F] F major, [Am] and A minor, also in a different inversion.
[Abm] With that, your left hand is going to be playing [C] this.
[F] [A]
[C] [F] [A]
Putting [C] the two parts together, you should get something like this.
[F] [Am]
[C] [F] [Am]
That's your [N] backing track for the entire song.
It literally just keeps repeating.
What happens is, the first part gets played once, and then the second part will get played once.
So, here's the entire backing track that just keeps looping for your song.
[C] [Am]
[Em] [C]
[Am] [Em] [C]
[F] [Am] [C]
[F] [Am]
[N] So on and so forth.
That's the backing track for your entire song.
Then Kid Cudi's vocal line from the chorus is going to go as follows.
[Am] [B]
[Em] [Am] [A]
[D] [C]
[F] [Cm] [Em] [D] [C]
[F] [Em] [D]
[C] Putting [N] that together with the two left hand parts that you learned from earlier, we're
combining the two, you should get something like this for your chorus.
[C]
[Am] [Em] [Am]
[C] [Am] [Em]
[C] [F] [A]
[Dm] [C] [F] [A]
[D] [C]
[Ab] And there [N] you have it, Pursuit of Happiness by Kid Cudi.
If you like these or any of the other videos you've seen on my YouTube channel, I'd like
to encourage that you subscribe to it.
And my channel's gotten to the point where my viewers pretty much run what appears on my channel.
They send me content, they send me songs they want me to try out.
So if you have a song you want me to play, or a song that you're having trouble learning,
send it my way and I'll check it out for a future video.
As always, I will see you next time.
[D] [A] [D] [Gb] [E]
Key:  
C
3211
Am
2311
F
134211111
Em
121
A
1231
C
3211
Am
2311
F
134211111
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So you're going to want to think of your main chord progression to this song as having two
parts to it.
The first part has three chords, _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ C major, [Am] _ _ A minor, _ [Em] _ and E minor.
_ [B] With that, your left hand [F] is going to be [C] playing this.
_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ Putting those two parts together, you should get something like this for the [C] first part
of your backing track.
_ _ _ [Am] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ The second part of your backing track, again, [Bb] has three [Eb] chords, _ [C] C, C major, this time in
a different inversion, _ [F] _ F major, _ [Am] _ and A minor, also in a different inversion.
_ _ _ _ [Abm] With that, your left hand is going to be playing [C] this.
_ [F] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ Putting [C] the two parts together, you should get something like this. _
_ _ [F] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ That's your [N] backing track for the entire song.
It literally just keeps repeating.
What happens is, the first part gets played once, and then the second part will get played once.
So, here's the entire backing track that just keeps looping for your song.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[Am] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] So on and so forth.
That's the backing track for your entire song.
_ _ Then Kid Cudi's vocal line from the chorus is going to go as follows.
[Am] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[Em] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ [C] _
_ _ [F] _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ Putting [N] that together with the two left hand parts that you learned from earlier, we're
combining the two, you should get something like this for your chorus.
_ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ _
[C] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [A] _
_ [Dm] _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [A] _
_ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] And there [N] you have it, Pursuit of Happiness by Kid Cudi.
_ _ _ _ If you like these or any of the other videos you've seen on my YouTube channel, I'd like
to encourage that you subscribe to it.
And my channel's gotten to the point where my viewers pretty much run what appears on my channel.
They send me content, they send me songs they want me to try out.
So if you have a song you want me to play, or a song that you're having trouble learning,
send it my way and I'll check it out for a future video.
As always, I will see you next time.
_ [D] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ [Gb] _ [E] _

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