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Coldplay – The Scientist – part 2 – Nate Bosch

So we ended on the C there and he just goes the minor seventh back from the C to bring us back
to that intro again then we go back to another verse, so I’ll play that F chord there.

Now these are the basic chords, the F, the D minor, the F flat now when I’m playing these chords
a sort of my interpretation of what I’m trying to fill in thinking of the band that’s playing, his
vocal and you want to kind of give it a sound. So solo piano is a little bit different that way,
you’ve got a—I mean I can go down here and play tenths but not everybody has hands this big,
so we’re trying to fill out these chords and keep the melody moving without getting too sparse,
but without getting too full. So let’s get back on track here we’re at the verse, again—

[Demo]

Now we’re going to that chorus, we go up to that octave back to the B flat. As you see I’m just
kind of sliding those two notes around, just to kind of follow the inflection of his voice there.

[Demo]

There’s your basic song. There’s a little instrumental here, went to that B flat goes up to the D
minor back down at the B flat, it does that again, back to the chorus.

Now we’ll point out another thing, what I’m doing in the left hand when we started the song I
was just doing eighth notes on the single notes. What I’ve started to add in, the fifth. What it
does is it fills out the song a little bit more and when while the song starts up fairly delicate,
when you start singing the song but as the song starts to build and all the different instruments
come in, we’ll we don’t have all those different instruments here so how do we fill out the
sound? We’ll add a fifth to it. And as we get on the song, if you can stretch it and reach it you
can hit those tenths there and you get a big— see how big that sound? So there you have the
basic parts of “The Scientist” by Coldplay.

Now there’s a few different changes in the song as where it goes into that instrument part comes
back in and sings another chorus and I believe it changes it up a little bit of a line at the end of
the song, but those are your basic chords and the basic chord pattern. So we’ve got— it’s a very
plodding style.

[Demo]

Now one other trick to move the song along as you, as the song gets going and we start at the
beginning and it’s very light. I sort of change up doing just quarter notes in the left hand so I
kind of get—it’s a sort of seems to move it along a little bit more that when the band comes
you’ve got high hats on drums, you’ve got the base doing a little bit of a line until there’s a little
bit more movement and just instead of doing—kind get you a little bit more amusing.

Now if you want to practice that? Just practice it on a one corner, a little sixteenth note thrown
in there. When you’re throwing that flip above, an octave, you start to fill out the song.

Kind of repeating myself there but it gives you the idea of how to—not only play the song, The
Scientist but start to build it. Now if you’re playing it with a band, it’s a different story. You’re
going to want to play the basic chords here and you won’t necessarily be playing the melody so
you can—to build the song you can work with different inversions of the chords cause you don’t
have to worry about what your melody line is doing and song build if you really dig in.

So there you have “The Scientist” by Coldplay.