Chords for The 5/4 Trick - How Harry Connick Jr. tricked an entire audience

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_ _ [Eb] Hello, this is Joshua [Bb] Sarefka, and who we're watching right now is actually Harry Connick
Jr.,
one of my favorite pianists.
[D] He's a very multi-talented [Fm] artist as well as an [F] acclaimed actor.
[Bb] Now I'm not just showing you this video to listen to this awesome song, I'm actually
showing you this video because he does something in this video that [Eb] I think is absolutely [C] awesome,
which I'm calling the [F] 5-4 trick.
What it is is something that he does to mess with the entire audience's [Bb] heads without them
ever even knowing.
Now to the musically uninclined or even to some of the musically inclined, [Cm] it's going
to be hard to hear and it might be hard to understand, [Bb] so I'm going to help you guys
understand it and try to take you step by step through it.
_ _ [F] _ First, I'm going to take you to a little bit of an understanding on sheet music.
This is a section of sheet music, and on the right-hand side you can see something called bar lines.
Those are separations of what are called measures or bars.
They are chunks of sheet music as you go along.
Now if you look over to the time signature, as it says 4-4, the top four is what we care about.
That four means that in each measure or bar there are four beats.
Now normally when a song is played with four beats and a 4-4 time signature and it's played
in front of an audience, most musicians want them to clap on the second and fourth beats.
So when you're counting 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4, you want the clap to be on 2 and 4.
_ But here, while Harry Connick Jr.
[G] is playing, we can obviously hear that the crowd is [Bb] clapping
on the first and third beat of the song.
I will display that a little bit easier later [F] on, but if you listen you'll be able to tell
[Bb] that the clapping is a little out of sync. _
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To correct this problem, Harry Connick Jr.
uses [G] an ingenious idea.
[C] During his playing, on one of the bars, [Bb] he inserts a fifth beat.
So instead of playing on four beats, he inserts a fifth.
[F] What this does is adds an extra [Bb] beat during the song so that instead of the crowd clapping
on the first and third, after [Eb] this little trick, they [Gm] clap on the second and fourth.
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I will play the clip and I will play the trick to see if you can notice it. _
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There, did you see it?
Well it's pretty hard to hear, but I will add in a little information for you to be
able to see it easier.
On the bottom left, I will add in numbers that count out each beat.
On the bottom [G] right, I will add in a little dot for [Gb] every time the crowd claps.
Before the trick, you'll see that every time the crowd claps, they fall on 1 and 3.
After the trick, you'll see the dot come up on 2 and 4 each time.
This will make it a little bit easier [Bb] for everybody to spot. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Cm] _ _ _ [Bb] that right there is one of the reasons [Eb] why Harry Connick Jr.
is a great artist.
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Let's just [Eb] enjoy the rest of this song.
[Bbm] I'm Joshua Serefka and thank [Eb] you for watching.
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