Playing We Are the People - Empire of the Sun on the piano

A very sophisticated song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hN5X4kGhAtU#fauxfullscreen


Non trivial chords of the quality found only in the best moments of classical music.


It may be attempted on the piano as follows:


Key is E minor ie all notes white except all F which are F sharp.


Playing the melody at a very high register.
E E E E E B B B B
D D D D B B B B (those Bs prepare for the Cmaj7th to come)
E E...


Then the left hand can play (all notes shown below together with pedal for a sustain effect) in the middle of the piano keyboard. An exquisite harmony. It is mostly hroughout non trivial non 1 3 5 chords.


B E G ie E
B D E F ie D69(remember F is F#) bass is B ie B4?
B C E G ie C7 (see Bach's prelude in C)
A C E G ie A7
B D F A ie B7 or B D F G ie go figure
B E G ie E


All these refined chords can be derived by getting their elements from the relation 1 3 5 7 9 etc with respect to bass.


The very strange chord at a moment in the chorus may be a C#6 followed from the beautiful C major 7h (are you gonna leave me now?) then E then C#6 ie C# bass C# E A harmony. Later addition: It most likely C# bass and B E G a very rare chord found in Vivaldi's slow movement of 4 seasons Autumn if memory is corect.


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