Hi guys, let's learn Fix You by Cole Play, an amazing song which is basically on E-flat major throughout and the way we divide the song is there is verse chorus which keeps happening I think it happens twice for the whole track, there is an intro before the verse which is a nice organ intro then that leads that continues to the verse and then in the second verse a piano plus an organ play together I'll show you that once we go to V2 then you have a build-up where the guitarist plays that tune right that goes on and then you go to the end of the song where there's another hooked tears stream etc. tears stream now your face that part so that's generally a sort of style of writing which Cole Play do wherein they do one hook which is generally considered the chorus and then at the end of the song they give you another hook which I think is a very interesting way to write a song and that last hook is something which you leave which you're left behind with right so let's get started from the beginning I'm going to play you the intro which is which can also be used for the verse remember it's on E flat major so let's get cracking so the worst chords are E flat G minor C minor and B flat major I'm playing it on a piano but actually in the original you can do this on an organ either the lower octave or the higher octave so the second verse you can go higher and the first verse you could stay deep okay so you go E flat G minor C minor B flat and try to follow these shapes of each chord this is how I'm playing E flat major G B flat E flat G minor G B flat D G C E flat for a C minor and F B flat D for B flat major and with each of these chords what they do is they ring the top which sounds amazing on an organ also sounds good on the piano so how it goes is E flat and now when you go to G minor play G B flat D with the ringing E flat you have to keep playing this note so where you try your best and you don't succeed so for E flat and C minor you don't have to worry about the E flat ringing because it anyway is part of the chord but when you go to G minor the second chord you add the E flat with it for the B flat chord you add the E flat with it right it gives you a very unique suspended chord kind of quality without really being a suspended chord because you're adding the third as well and it makes the chord very very fat so I'm going to put a few links in the description which with some other ways to make chords a bit more colorful and this is specifically something which Coldplay does in a lot of the piano parts or actually even in the orchestral or the horn arrangement they what appears as a triad or this G minor is actually not a triad it's a triad with something else and that's inevitably a pedal and the pedal generally we use as the root the pedal note is just we call it a pedal as it repeats for a good amount of time we also say ostinato right so the the right hand of the intro and the verse goes E flat G minor with that ringing E flat C minor B flat with the ringing E flat repeat C minor B flat G minor and then B flat and it goes on and the left hand you can start by playing the roots of the chord you can do it in a one is to two so every every time you do this hand with this hand this goes one more time and this one just holds so one is to two left is to right essentially the roots of the chord and the right hand is as I told you and the bass also does something very interesting where instead of just holding the E flat at the end of the bar just before going to the next chord there are one or two notes which get added let's see how that sounds so E flat let me only do the left that's E flat FG at the G minor B flat C C minor B flat so left hand again try to sing it and sometimes we add a ghost E flat with the organ that ghost is E flat repeat second line E flat almost the same E flat FG D C B flat the second line feels like it's going down isn't it E flat E flat FG same as the first line D C B flat with the right hand second line repeat once the chords if you're not getting the bass line it's fine let me show you the sort of easier version E flat G minor C minor B flat with the ringing right hand G minor C minor B flat and now with the moving bass right and at verse 2 the only thing which changes is a piano adds a nice line before going to verse 2 the piano plays tongue tongue tongue tongue tongue tongue tongue that's G E flat G D G E flat F D and this goes along with the organ so you'll have to figure out how to do that the way I do it if I'm playing this alone without any other keyboardist is to play the chords in the left hand and play the melody in the right hand so that the performance stays big and it stays warm and and rounded so your second verse so first verse is just that organ stuff right while the second verse C minor B flat you can even do it with octaves and a pedal so that's G E flat G D G E flat F D with octaves B flat right or you can do it with without octaves okay and at the end of the verse line so that happens as well at the end as an octave right so you could add these parts if you wish or you can just play the old organ part which sounds very good on piano in any case so let's now do the next part of the song which is the chorus very easy where it says lights will guide you home etc so the count is a flat major for three beats then E flat major over G that means you need to play G in the base or the left hand and then B flat suspended for followed by B flat and a flat is three counts G E flat over G is one count B flat sus 2 is sus count is 2 counts and B flat major is 2 counts as well let's see how it sounds two three four home a flat and a E flat over G your bones a flat again I will E flat over G tracks you and goes to that piano part right so let's look at the chorus again lights will so that's a flat major and what they do is remember the idea of the pivot or the pedal which I talked earlier instead of just playing a flat he's adding an a flat over a G which you're going to again play with the E flat over G so you ring that G and makes it a flat major seventh if your fingers can reach do try that otherwise this is the suspended chord a suspended chord is 1 4 and 5 it's a very nice chord in fact I've done another video which we link up in the descriptions called creative uses of suspended chords which I think you guys should definitely check out so this is like the beginner version or the easy version that's E flat over G and then you can add in that ringing G as I talked about so even the B flat sus I'm ringing the D here and then it goes to the heavy part or the build-up which only the guitarist plays so there I guess you could just play a low root of the chord pretty much chords there and here that's 1 2 E flat if flat 4 times na na na na na na E flat 4 times na na B flat and then we go to a very nice chord which is the C minor 7th chord the C minor 7th chord you can play like this which is G B flat E flat in the right hand you can ignore the C because your anyways playing it here so minor 7th chord actually has four notes so I'm just jumbling them or shuffling them between the two hands to sound good so C minor 7th E flat B flat major na na na na na na na na na E flat Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na So this part is the same rhythm which you can even play when they do the ending part which is the tier stream down your face bit. So tier stream A flat down your face B flat sus going to B flat major right or you can just play B flat major so we do B flat sus B flat major moving on C minor 7 tier stream A flat down your face and I E flat na B flat sus B flat major again you can even build it up by playing 8th notes with your left hand thumb so right try to move your wrist smoothly so that you don't get pain in your forearms but yeah here and there you could add these 8th notes again it repeats so at the word you cannot replace we have a G minor 7th chord don't forget that so it's pretty much the same thing except instead of B flat major you go to G minor 7 so let's look at that ending these are the notes of G minor 7th G B flat D F if you find it difficult to play the 4 note chord just play a normal G minor chord but I think G minor 7th will sound nice it's not too difficult on the fingers so let's just look at the last line and with the chorus so we've covered pretty much all the sections you have that intro organ and a piano added on for verse 2 then you have the chorus which is the breakdown lights will guide you home etc then you have the build up starting by the guitar and then you use pretty much the same chords to get into the vocal section which is the tier stream down your face part right so this is Fix You by Coldplay it's a very interesting song to learn for any instrument even if you're a guitar player or a synth player or anyone really it's on the key of E flat major so it's uh you I would suggest that you guys write down the scale write down all the available chords and wherever you have a doubt with the instruction on in this instruction video try to pause the video rewind go back slow things down and also if you have any further doubts you can always leave a comment and we'll be happy to help you out cheers