Jaden Kim breaks down The Internet's "Curse" chord by chord, starting with the A section's B♭m9 and A♭maj7 loop, then the B section's complex altered chords. He provides fingering options throughout and maps the full song structure so you can play along.
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Good morning, my beautiful people. Or whatever time it is when you're watching this today I've got curse by the Internet. I'll play it once and I'll show you guys how. To sa. Then we're back at the top. Let's get into it. All right, before we begin, I would just like to say that this was a labor of love. This was not easy to learn. And I watched a lot of live videos trying to get it as accurate, accurate as I possibly could. I think I got it pretty darn close. Anyways, let's get into the chorus or the A section because the other both parts they say the name of the song, so I'm not exactly sure which one's a chorus. Anyways, this is the first part and this is what it sounds like. Cool. So it's basically like a four bar loop with two different endings. So the first chord is going to be a B flat minor 9 and that's going to look like this. Steve always plays these minor seven chords or minor nine chords, which is with his middle finger on the low E string which also meets your A string. And then your ring finger gets those, your D, G and B string. And then your pinky's gonna take care of the top like this. And remember this, this A string is muted by the underside of the middle finger. Alternatively, you could play it like this with your ring finger pressing down the ninth fret of your A string. And then you just strum all that. After that we've got a, an AB major 7 chord. Which is the interesting thing about this one is that he plays, he uses his index finger to play the third fret or the fourth fret and the third fret on the high E string. So it looks like this. Alternatively, if that's awkward, you could take your thumb and put it on that root note and hit down the same notes. If that is still uncomfortable, what you can do is put your middle finger on the root, pinky on your G string, ring finger on your B string and index finger, and we're going to be leaving out those. The, the two strings between your E string and your G string. Cool. Something for everybody. So the first two chords together and it's just going to be like one bar per chord. So it's just like one strum each. Or maybe it's like two beats per chord. However, you're going to count it anyways. After that the, the first ending, the fancy way is going to be like this. Alternatively, you could just play the first and the third chord. So the first chord is going to be E flat minor 9, played like this, followed by a D altered. Make sure you're barring with your pinky there. And then a D flat major 7. Make sure that your index finger is barring all the way up to the top on all those. Well, the middle one, you're gonna have to use your pinky, so that's gonna sound like this. Alternatively, you could just play the first chord and then the third chord. So I'm gonna play the first half of the chorus, progr. Or Cool. And then the. The next part, the first two chords are going to be exactly the same as. As the chords we started with. So it's going to be back to B flat minor 9, then the A flat major 7. Then instead of going to your E flat minor 9, you're going to go down to your g flat major 7, regular schmegular. And then you're going to go to. This chord was so hard for me to figure out. This is totally what he plays, though. And then it's going to be this. A flat minor 7, flat 13, or something like that. If you don't know what that means, it really doesn't matter. It just looks like this. Cool. So this is going to be the. The whole. And that would be. The next part would be like the top of either another chorus or would go into the next section. All right. And we'll get into the form of things later. But basically you're going to play that first section twice and then it's going to come to this section, the B section or the verse or whatever it's called. Cool. Sounds like this. Sounds like this. Got it. No, but you're about to, so let's get into it. It's going to start with a D flat major 7, regular old D flat major 7. I'm sure you're very familiar with this chord shape by now. And then after that it's going to go into. This is a pretty odd chord. This is a C minor 7, flat 9, so I know it sounds funky. This is a hundred percent what he plays. Steve Lacy, that is. And then we're gonna go to A, E major 7, followed by A. An E flat major or e flat minor 7. And then we're gonn back to our d flat major 7. Now instead of going to a C, C minor 7, flat 9, we're going to go to this C7, like flat 13. And then we're going to go to. I saw a couple of different versions, so I'll show you both ways that he's played it regularly. He plays this F major, F minor, 7 chord. All. Although some on some recordings I saw him play. I saw him play this where he just like you just bar that fret like F Sus. Anyways, after that you're gonna go to A. This is like the same shape that we used before. This is a D minor 7, flat 13. We used the shape earlier. Cool. And then after that it goes back to the original section that we were going to. Cool. So now you know both sections, let's figure out how to put them together. All right, so the form of the tune, and I wish I knew it a little bit better so I could sing like which lyrics went to which, but I don't. Anyways, so it's going to be drum intro, four bars. And then you're going to play the chorus or the A section. You're gonna play that twice. And when I say play it twice, I mean you're gonna go all the way through. That's one time. And then you're gonna do that again after you do the chorus twice. You're gonna do the verse or the B section one time. And when I say one time for that, it's actually longer so it ends up being the same length. So one time of the chorus is gonna sound like. Like this. That's for. That's one time. So it's like a chorus twice is like the same length as a verse. Anyway, so I'm gonna just call. I'm gonna start calling them A's and B's. Okay, so you got intro for four bars, A twice, then a B, then A twice, then a B, then an A once, then a B and then two more A's to finish it. Sorry if that sounded confusing. I would say just watch that part back and just like write it down. If you need help remembering it or. Really what I would recommend you do is you go and you find the song after you have the chord shapes down and you just play along with it because that's really how you're going to learn the form of the tune. Cool. I hope this is clear. This has been one that's been very widely requested by these people. Thanks guys. And leave more requests in the comments. My channel is small. We're almost at 1K subscribers, which is so awesome and exciting for me. Thank you so much for that. And yeah, leave more requests and I'll probably get to them. Goodbye. Have a nice day. Leave any questions or anything in the comments.
