Team - Lorde

The mega-popular first single of this alternative teenage hit machine has truly left itโ€™s mark in all of the western worldโ€™s musical memory, putting Lorde firmly on the charts.

Although Royalsโ€™ has also been requested quite a few times, since the song is mainly vocal-oriented -and yโ€™all know itโ€™s quite lame to copy vocal lines on a piano-, I decided to go for this super-nice example of using a few easy triads and inversions from the slightly more advanced key of F#, play โ€˜em on a cool synthesizer (piano works perfectly fine too, as youโ€™ll hear) in super-easy pattern and shine-follow-up: her second hit โ€˜Teamโ€™.

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Burn - Ellie Goulding.

An (overly?) produced super-hit that in fact turned out to hold a really (really!) nice piano-part.

When I started to listen what chords this song was built of and make my own piano version out of them by copying some of the synths from the original, I was happily surprised with the beauty of the actual song that came out. Of course, it had already occurred to me that this song had something special when I heard it one of the million-and-some times on the radio wherever I go lately, but translating such a heavily electronic song into an acoustic piano part always does something special to reveal the bare-naked niceness (when it's there) of a tune, doesn't it?

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Have a little faith in me - John Hiatt.

Pop-Piano at it's finest.ย 

Apart from the stunning and heartfelt vocal performance of mister Hiatt on this track, this is one of the greatest examples of just how simple a piano-riff can be to create an atmosphere to melt even the coldest of ices.

In this lesson of course I'll also explain it's 'origin' - the chords and pattern that the riff are built of - in detail so you'll both understand- and be able to reproduce it in many other ways, just like -as you'll also see later in the tutorial- John does himself later on in the song.

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Timber - Pitbull ft. Ke$ha

Chart-topping, four chord songs. Haven't we already seen quite a few of those...

This is yet another one of those (melody) riff-based tunes that oh so many of you seem to love (request for this one were off the charts).

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