Alicia Keys - You Don't Know My Name (no dialog edit)

From Wikipedia:

"A Woman's Worth" is a song by American singer–songwriter Alicia Keys. A piano-driven soul ballad with elements of contemporary R&B and neo soul, it was written by herself and musician Erika Rose and produced by Keys for her debut album, Songs in A Minor (2001).
The track was released as the album's second single in February 2002 following the worldwide success of her debut single the previous year, and became another top ten success for Keys in New Zealand and the United States, where it also reached number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The accompanying music video, directed by Chris Robinson, is a continuation of the "Fallin'" video and explored what happens when Keys' onscreen love interest gets released from prison and he tries to acclimate to society.
The clip was nominated for both Best R&B Video and Best Cinematography at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, while the song won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Song in the same year.

You'll find lots of chord charts online if you do a Google search but I thought I'd share the chords that I'm playing in the song.

Intro: Em D6 Cmaj7 B7 E5 Em Bm Am7 Bm7


Verse 1:
                 Em                         Bm
You could buy me diamonds, you could buy me pearls 
             Am7                     Bm7
Take me on a cruise around the world, baby you know I'm worth it 
              Em                     Bm
Dinner lit by candles, run my bubble bath
                Am7                 Bm7 
Make love tenderly to last and last, baby you know I'm worth it 


Bridge 1:
      Am             G6          D/F#         Em     D
Wanna please, wanna keep, wanna treat your woman right 
         Am           G6            D/F#          Em          D
Not just dough but a show that you know she is worth your time 
         Am           G6        D/F#      Em       D
You will lose if you choose to refuse to put her first 
    B7                                   
She will if she can find a man who knows her worth



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Chorus:
             Em7                              Bm7
'Cause a real man knows a real woman when he sees her 
      Am7                         Bm7
And a real woman knows a real man ain't afraid to please her 
      Em7                                 Bm7
And a real woman knows a real man always comes first 
      Am7                      Bm7
And a real man just can't deny a woman's worth

Em Bm7 Em Bm7

 Verse 2:
                Em7                           Bm 
If you treat me fairly, I'll give you all my goods 
                 Am7               Bm7
Treat you like a real woman should, baby I know you're worth it 
             Em                      Bm
If you never play me, promise not to bluff 
              Am7                       Bm7
I'll hold you down when shit gets rough, baby I know you're worth it 


Bridge 2:
        Am    G6              D/F#          Em          D
She walks the mile, make you smile, all the while being true 
      Am        G6         D/F#          Em          D
Don't take for granted the passion that she has for you 
         Am           G6         D/F#      Em       D
You will lose if you choose to refuse to put her first 
    B7           
She will if she can't find a man who knows her worth ohhhh
(Chorus)


Coda:
   Am7             Bm7                     Cmaj7 Bm7 Am9
No need to read between the lines, spelled  out for you 
     Am7                        Bm7                   Cmaj7 Bm7 Am7
Just hear this song 'cause you can't go wrong when you value 
  B7
A woman, woman, woman, a woman's worth 
(Chorus x2)


Outro: (repeat until fade)
Em   Bm7          Am7 Bm7 Em
Mmmm mmmm (3x) // mmm

Here's how I play A Woman's Worth in Em with 4/4 time, moderatley slow.

Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor (Easy Piano Personality)

Intro:

EBE/EE
DAF#/BB
CGC/BB
BA/BD#B
E/BE
EE/BE
BB/F#BDF#
AA/GCE
BB/ADF#

E/GBE   You could buy me diamonds, you could buy me
B/DF#B pearls, take me on a
A/GCEA cruise around the world (Ba
B/F#AD by, you know I'm worth it) Dinner lit by
E/GBG    candles, run my bubble
B/DF#B bath, make love tender-
A/GCEA ly to last and last. (Ba-
B/F#AD by, you know I'm worth it.) Wanna
A/EAC    please, wanna
G/EGB    keep, wanna
F#/DF#A treat your
E/BEG    woman
D/ADF# right. Not just
A/EAC    dough but a
G/EGB    show that you
F#/DF#A know she is
E/BEG     worth your
D/ADF#   time.

AA/EAC     You will lose if you
GG/EGB      choose to re-
F#F#/DF#A fuse to
EE/BEG        put her
D/ADF#        first. She
BB/AD#F#B will, if she can, find a man who knows her
BB/AD#F#B worth. Cause a real
E/BDG          man knows a real woman when he
B/DF#B         sees her. and a
AA/GCE      real woman knows a real man
B/ADF#       ain't 'fraid to please her. And a
EE/BG         real woman knows a real man always
BB/DF#B    comes first, and a
AA/GCEA   real man just can't deny
BB/ADF#    a woman's worth

E/GBE   Mm hm mm hm
B/F#AD mm hm mm hm
E/GBE    mm hm mm hm
B/F#AD mm. (repeat)

Coda

AA/GCE No need to read be-
BB/ADF# tween the lines spelled
C/BEG     out
B/ADF#   for
A/GBCE you. Just
AA/GCE hear this song, "cause you
BB/ADF# can't go
B/F#BF# wrong when you
C/BEG     val
B/ADF#
A/GCE     ue a
BB/AD#F#B woman's worth. 'Cause a real

E/BDG       man knows a real woman when he
BB/DF#B sees her, and a real
AA/GCEA woman knows a real man
BB/ADF# ain't 'fraid to please her. And a real
E/BEG      woman knows a real man always
BB/DF#B comes first, and a real
AA/GCEA man just can't deny

BB/ADF#   a woman's worth.
E/GBE Mm hm mm hm,
B/F#AD mm hm mm hm,
E/GBE mm hm mm hm,
B/F#AD    mm hm mm hm
E/BEG    mm hm mm hm
B/ADF#    "
E/BEG    "
B/ADF#    "

Outro

EE/A#BE
BB/F#BDF#
AA/GCE
BB/ADF# /B,D,E single notes

Woman's Worth

Looking to play No One by Alicia Keys? You'll find chords to the song, how-to-play-no-one-alicia-keys-on-piano

How to play Unbreakable has been posted at unbreakable-by-alicia-keys.

Plus, there's Diary by Alicia Keys to look over. Finally here's the chord chart to, You Dont Know My Name

I love this artist; she is one talented lady. Do you have a favorite Alicia Keys song?

Best,

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." B.B.King

Alicia Keys via last.fm

Here are the piano chords to You Don't Know My Name written by Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Harold Lilly, J.R. Bailey, Mel Kent and Ken Williams. This popular song was written in 2003.
The part where Alicia sings "You don't know my name" throughout the song, well that walk down is F#, E, D, C#, and B whether you play single notes in the l.h. or add octaves and play it in your right hand. Remember you're in the Key of A, so that's the run you hear in this song. I love it!
CHORD CHART:

Bm7
	Baby, baby, baby

From the day I saw you

	Db7
I really really want to catch your	eye

	Bm7
	There's something special 'bout you

I must really like you

	Db7
Cause not a lotta guys are worth my t	ime

	Bm7
	Ooo baby, baby, baby

It's gettin kind of crazy

	Db7
'Cause you are takin' over my	mind

(CHORUS)

	Amaj7
And it feels like o	ooooo

	Bm7
you don't know my n	ame

	Db7	Amaj7
I s	wear it feels like	ooooo

	Bm7
You don't know my	name

	Db7
(round and round and round we go, wi	ll you ever know)

	Bm7
	Oh baby baby baby

I see us on our first date

	Db7
You're doin everything that makes me s	mile

	Bm7
	And when we had our first kiss

It happened on a Thursday

	Db7
Ooooo it set my soul on f	ire

	Bm7
	Ooo baby baby baby

I can't wait for the first time

	Db7
My imagination's runnin w	ild

chorus...

	Amaj7
	"I'm sayin, he don't even know what he's doin' to me

	Bm7
	I'm feelin' all crazy inside

I'm feelin like"

	E7sus
	Owww! Ooooo Oooooo

	Amaj7
	Doin more than I've ever done for anyone's attention

	Bm7
Take n	otice of what's in front of you

	E7sus
Cause did I me	ntion you're 'bout to miss a good thing

	Amaj7
	And you'll never know how good it feels to have all of my affection

	Bm7	E7sus
And you'll	never get a chance to experience my lo	vin'

	Amaj7
Cause my lovin' feels like o	oooooo

	Bm7	Db7
You don't know my	name..	.............

Wikipedia says:
"You Don't Know My Name" is a song by American R&B-soul singer Alicia Keys from her second studio album, The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003). The track, written by Keys, Kanye West, and Harold Lilly and co-produced by Keys and West, was released as the album's lead single in November 2003, and contains a sample from the 1974 song "Let Me Prove My Love to You", written by J. R. Bailey, Mel Kent, and Ken Williams and performed by The Main Ingredient. It became Keys' third top ten hit in the United States, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, and also stayed atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for eight weeks and it was her first single to reach number one single R&B chart in the United States after 2001's "Fallin'". Furthermore, the song won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in 2005 and a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female in 2004. "You Don't Know My Name" was sampled on Lil Wayne's 2008 song "Comfortable" featuring Babyface. Blender magazine ranked the song number thirty-seven on its list of The 100 Best Songs of 2004.^[1]

Alicia Keys - You Don't Know My Name (no dialog edit)

-- LadyD I write for Fortitude http://fo.rtitu.de/1014

"Diary" by: Alicia Keys

There's a couple of chords you need here to play the song and these minor seventh chords sound so good.

Do you know these chords... Abm7, Ebm7, Dbm7, Dm7 and all black notes for glissando?

Key Ab minor (Cb major) LH/RH

Ab / Ab, Eb, Cb, Db, Eb, Db, Cb, Ab
Eb / Db-Gb-Bb
Db / Cb-Fb-Ab
Ab / Ab, Eb, Cb, Db, Eb, Db, Cb, Ab
Eb / Db-Gb-Bb
Db / Fb-Ab-Cb
Ab / Ab, Eb, Cb, Db, Eb, Db, Cb, Ab
Eb / Db-Gb-Bb
D / C-F-A
Db / Cb-Fb-Ab
Eb / Db-Gb-Bb

OR

Ab / Eb-Ab-Cb I won't tell
Eb / Db-Gb-Bb
Db / Cb-Fb-Ab
Ab / Eb-Ab-Cb Your secrets
Eb / Db-Gb-Bb
Db / Cb-Fb-Ab
Ab / Eb-Ab-Cb Your secrets
Eb / Db-Gb-Bb are
Db / Cb-Fb-Ab safe with me
Ab / Eb-Ab-Cb
Eb / Db-Gb-Bb
Db / Cb-Fb-Ab
Ab / Eb-Ab-Cb I will keep
Eb / Db-Gb-Bb
Db / Cb-Fb-Ab
Ab / Eb-Ab-Cb Your secrets
Eb / Db-Gb-Bb
Db / Cb-Fb-Ab
Ab / Eb-Ab-Cb Just think of me as the
Eb / Db-Gb-Bb pages in
D / C-F-A your
Db / Cb-Fb-Ab diary-
Eb / Db-Gb-Bb yyyyy
(repeat)

Hear and Play Forum

Here's another piano tutorial to see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvU_7f1lgh8&feature=related

* * * * * * * * * * * * *
I just finished writing this article and wanted to share it with you:

The Major's Sad Cousin: The Relative Minor

If I were to ask you for a list of sad songs, what would come to mind? Perhaps you would say Moody River by Pat Boone, maybe Eva Cassidy's Songbird. What about Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven?

Elton John wrote "Sad Songs Say So Much." So true and then there is the music structure to look at because for sure minor chords sound sad or mysterious in many ways. If I were to ask you for a list of sad songs, what would come to mind? Perhaps you would say Moody River by Pat Boone, maybe Eva Cassidy's Songbird. What about Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven?
What is a relative minor chord you ask? Well, every major chord, scale or key has a relative minor chord, scale or key. So for every MAJOR KEY, there is a RELATIVE MINOR KEY that also shares the same key signature.

Each relative minor scale begins on the 6th degree (Aeolian) of the RELATIVE MAJOR SCALE. The 6th note is the keynote (first note played) of the minor scale and the note from which the scale gets its name.

C Major and A Minor

D Major and B Minor

E Major and C# Minor

F Major and D Minor

G Major and E Minor

A Major and F# Minor

B Major and G# Minor

D Flat/ C# Major and B Flat Minor

E Flat/ D# Major and C Minor

G Flat/ F# Major and E Flat Minor

A Flat/ G# Major and F Minor

B Flat/ A# Major and G Minor

STEPS TO PLAYING A MINOR SCALE:

1. Find the relative major key of the minor scale that you want to play.
2. Play the relative major key starting and ending on the sixth degree. (the sixth degree of the relative major key should be the keynote of the minor scale that you want to play. You can also verify the relative major key by counting 3 half steps to the right. If it takes more or less than 3 half steps to get to the relative major key, then the relative major key that you have chosen is not correct.)

So, now we’ve learned that the relative minor key, like the relative minor chord, begins and ends on the sixth note of a major scale. Here’s how you find a major key’s relative minor key. Find the sixth degree of the major scale. Starting there, playing the notes of the major scale all the way ‘til you hit the sixth degree one octave higher. Here’s an example using the key of C:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6

C D E F G A B C D E F G A

So you just found the relative minor of C major: The Key of A minor: The scale itself is a minor scale. Minor scales differ from the major scale in that they come in different flavors. That is, there are a handful of them. This one is the natural minor scale.

Then there is The Harmonic Minor Scale:

One of the strongest forces in Western music is the pull from the V chord to the I chord. By raising the lowered seventh of the natural minor back to a natural seventh, you make the dominant chord major rather than minor.

Harmonic Minor: 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 7 (8)
C Harmonic Minor: C D Eb F G Ab B ©

The Melodic Minor Scale:

The melodic minor scale exists for melodic reasons. The b6 is raised to a natural 6 in the melodic minor but only when ascending. When descending, the need for the strong melodic pull from the natural 7 to 8 is gone, so the melodic minor is returned to its natural state: the natural minor scale, complete with b6 and b7. So in this respect, the melodic minor is a unique case in western music; a scale that is different in its ascending and descending forms.

Melodic Minor Scale Pattern and C Melodic Scale:

1 2 b3 4 5 6 7 (8) b7 b6 5 4 b3 2 1

C D Eb F G A B (C) Bb Ab G F Eb D C

You have now learned Natural, Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales. Believe me, there’s still more minor scales to learn.

Charlie Parker once said "Learn the changes and then forget them."

Another one of my favorite keyboard players is Jamal Hartwell. Listen to his instruction on soloing. You will learn lots just by watching this clip. Jamal covers the G Blues Scale... G, Bb, C, Db, D, F, G (sometimes A) I've added a bit more here:

"The first key we're going to start with is the key of G and you're going to do a G blues. So we are going to start right on G and play our G seven scale. The blues is compressed with all seven scales so all the scales we're going to learn is our seven scales. We start on G two, three, four, five, six, seven, one. Notice all the way notes very easy and we're just going to go for a bass line. One, three, five, seven, right, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, that way we can know what notes we're actually playing when I say one, three, five, seven. Also when we go to the four chord we are playing the forth scale so our C is our four chord and our five chord will be our D. So there is your scale, we are also going to learn the blue scale out of G which is (playing). So you have G and B flat C D flat D and then the F at the top (playing). That's blues works over all of our three chords and all of our three minor chords as well, it's a pretty universal chord that we are going to use throughout the whole piece. We are going to start by playing a one, three, five, seven and G and doing a little blues with my right. (playing) That's your G blues one chord, G."

http://www.ehow.com/video_4393461_playing-1st-chord-g-major.html

* Song: 107 degrees in the shade by Alex Bugnon

Swiss-born keyboardist and composer Alex Bugnon has played in New York and Europe.

“After exploring all of the sophisticated and progressive funk that helped me find my sound, I knew I needed to get back to a sound that was more laid back and straight to the point, where the songs, rather than fancy
production, are the focus,” he says. “With the success of artists like Norah Jones and Alicia Keys, it’s clear to me that, like myself, people are tired of the overproduced, heavy machine-oriented music that excited them in the past. These are complicated times we live in, and it’s inspiring to see a trend towards making life simpler and focusing on the more important things.”

http://www.alexbugnon.com

* Preview Song 107 Degrees in the Shade

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B)))))27ST/qid=1004554352/sr=1-2

* Reviews on Amazon:

"Alex Bugnon exhibits a high level of creativity and playfulness throughout this work, plenty of suggestive and smooth pieces, but signed with a very personal style. 107 in the shade, for instance, initiates with an exotic melody played in accordion. His French roots are shown in the first two tracks. Elegance and brightness would be the most appropriate terms to describe this notorious CD.

So if you additionally consider there is not minor track, the recommendation is almost an invitation to acquire this interesting album plenty of joyful inspiration and creative rapture.

This is really my first incursion around this young talent, but keeping in mind the rest of good positive reviews, we are in front of another brilliant finding."

"this is sunday morning,read the paper in bed, snuggle up and just plain mellow out! Best of a great artist".

* From a Gm9--> Am9--> D7b5#9

Piano Lessons - Soloing Techniques and Freestyle - LearnGospelByEar.com

Urban and Contemporary Worship Play by Ear is the quickest way to learn any song by ear. After learning how to play by ear with no one to show me, it forced me to develop an easy and quick process and procedure to learning songs by ear quickly. Many of the musicians, when I was learning how to play, did not know theory nor were they able to explain the process to learning songs. After so many years of finally learning theory, I began to see a remarkable pattern to all songs and I am exposing these secrets to you. By learning these secrets, you will not only be able to create your own music without knowing how to read it, but you will be able to play any song you hear GUARANTEED! "It just cannot get any easier than this......" This is the ultimate DVD for beginners and for musicians looking to get back into playing.

http://LearnGospelByEar.com
Warmest Regards,
~ LadyD

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Alicia Keys via last.fm

I love the smooth sounds of Alicia Keys' Unbreakable! Here is a wonderful breakdown of the song by pianokid100... enjoy!

How To Play Unbreakable - Alicia keys - Piano Lesson

Video Transcription

www.myspace.com Making the band for Alicia Keys - Unbreakable Alright, this is another free piano lesson video, this time I am going to be doing Unbreakable by Alicia Keys. It was requested. And it is pretty simple actually, it only has four chords. And I am going to start by first playing the way it should sound by the time you are done learning this video. [Demonstration] Let us start with the bass line. The bass line keys are going to go C#, F#, B, and A flat, and then just repeat C#, F#, B, A flat. The right hand chord, for the first chord for the C# key is going to be B, E flat, E, and A flat with your right hand. And you play the C# bass. And then we move to the second chord, we move the bass to the F#. You are just going to move your thumb down to B flat. So you are going to be playing a B flat, E flat, E, and A flat. So similar looking chord except you move down to the B flat from here to here. You move the bass from C# to F#. Then we play the B bass, you are going to be Am7 with your right hand if you do not know what that looks like. It is basically an A, C#, E, and A flat. And the last chord, you are going to be play an A flat, B, C. and on your right hand, you are going to be playing A, C, E, and F#. [Demonstration] And those are the chords now there is a little part when you go. [Demonstration] That is basically A flat, A, and B flat. You are going to play where you have an A flat up here, A, A, and you are going B flat. And the last two chords

INTRO:

(just bass notes)
G# A A# B

VERSE/CHORUS (the chords never change from here on out)

Amaj7/B Adim/G# C#7 F#7
--------------------------------

And that's it.

NOTES
For that C#7 chord (on the piano) I always use
the 3rd inversion which would be (from bottom note to top)

G#
B
C#
E

http://www.e-chords.com/guitartab.asp?idmusica=115715&keyb=true

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I love the simplicity of many Alicia Keys songs! She is so talented and very beautiful! My piano students favor this song, No One, and can easily play it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktUSIJEiOug&feature=related

* The chord progression is a I V vi IV

E B C#m A

* How to play No One by Alicia Keys on the Piano (gotitans999)