{"id":189,"date":"2019-07-16T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-12T11:02:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:02:14","slug":"moon-river-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/moon-river-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Play &#8220;Moon River&#8221; from Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moon River is an iconic, beautiful song. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s and won the Oscar for Best Original Song.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pianote.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/pdf\/Moon-River-LeadSheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&lt;&lt; Download the Lead Sheet Here &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a timeless classic and one that I\u2019m so excited to teach you!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, there are a couple of things I need to mention. I\u2019ll be playing this from a lead sheet, so we have the melody written out in notation, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/chord-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chords<\/a> are written above.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:462px;\"><div style=\"padding:0;margin:0;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/514081138\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" rel=\"noopener\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div><div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:128.57143% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/514081138?et=Wl_JtrRfQtJ7WBhp1dpcKA&amp;tld=ca&amp;sig=Uts_ow4wo7IycSJvf3PA4_PfxaW0XoDV23bkZHn8IKA=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"462\" height=\"594\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;margin:0;\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of those chords might be new to you, and they can be intimidating (especially the half-diminished ones). If you see a chord and you have no idea what it means, or you just don\u2019t quite get it, that\u2019s ok! You can just play the root note with your left hand, or play the simple chord instead.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve tried to explain every chord that\u2019s in the song, but if there\u2019s one that you still just can\u2019t wrap your head around, let me know in the comments and I\u2019ll answer it for you!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And speaking of chords, I made an ERROR in the video (I\u2019m so sorry). At 2:20 I talk about a funny chord with a weird symbol. I say it\u2019s a B diminished 7, but it is actually a B HALF-diminished 7. It\u2019s a small difference but it\u2019s important!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">B diminished 7 has the notes B-D-F-Ab. B half-diminished 7 (or m7b5) is B-D-F-A. So only the top note is different. But it is a mistake and I\u2019m sorry about that.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This song might be a challenge for you. If so, that\u2019s great! It\u2019s important to push ourselves in order to get better. Just go slow, one line at a time. If you find a section that\u2019s causing you trouble, start with that section. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go slow, keep it simple and go from there.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/weekly-email\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to play &#8220;Moon River&#8221; from Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s and unlock your inner Aubrey Hepburn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107,508],"tags":[1086],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-scores","category-song-tutorials","tag-l3s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10700,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/10700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}