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Coldplay – The Scientist – Part 1 – Nate Bosch
Hi, I’m Nate Bosch with Pianolessons.com. Today I’m going to teach you how to play
The Scientist by Coldplay. We’ll be playing in the key of F the basic rift that starts the
song let’s start with the D minor or D in the left hand and an F major chord on the second
inversion which gives us the D minor seventh chord. Now the left is doing he’s doing 8th
notes, he plays along—pretty much plays along like that through the song. So let’s start at
the beginning, so while the left hand is doing eighth notes, the right hand is doing basic
quarter notes. The second note is a B flat, a little up note to the C, now we still hold the F
from doing the F in the left hand but now we go to a suspended, C suspended chord. Now
back to the Dm again, B flat, so the B flat moves up to the C with the pinky there back
down to the F. Now for doing it as a solo piano piece we’re not just going to keep playing
that over and over again. Although on the recording that’s the begins of doing is just
playing that over and over while he sings the melody.
We’re going to play the melodies, so I’ll teach that to you now. So we’ve just finished
doing our little intro there, now we’re finished that off here, come in to that suspended
chord now back to the D. Play where you does it as he plays the melody around the F
triad there. I’ll show you there, here we go. So we’ve done basic chord progression there,
we’ve got the Dm to the B flat to the F and it just walks down to the Dm so do that again.
Here we go. As you know as I change it up a little bit there, so we did the melody, when
we comeback down the melody is the A there. Play that chord, that F chord again and
fills up that, that part of the song there. With the F chord again, now move the F down to
the E which gives us an F major seventh chord, but that kind of transitions back down to
the Dm.
Very repetitive song but it does that four times before we leave in to the chorus, so we’re
coming up to the chorus here. Instead of going to the Dm, let’s start the chorus— we go
to the B flat. On that B flat chord just go up the octave from the F, to the F, now we’re
back to B flat, go up the octave. Now we’ve changed here by the C in the first inversion
which over the E there to the Dm, and that gets us to the end of that chorus. So play the
chorus again.
That’s how we ends the chorus, and now we start again on another verse. So the end of
that chorus is—
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