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?

The lesson is very well suited for beginner - intermediate pop-pianists (though, as always, I'm sure almost everybody can take something out of it) tackling some basic triad-meets-melodic-pattern using extensions, some inversions, voicing-techniques and even some dressing-up at the end.

Well actually, quite the cool lesson indeed, wether you like the original song or not. Highly recommended.

Have fun!

Cheers, Coen.

About Coen

Founder of Piano Couture and creator of the Hack the Piano method. Coen is a musician, creator, reader, writer, web-designer, educator, coach, eater and traveler. Find him at CoenModder.com

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