“vampire” by Olivia Rodrigo is the latest pop-punk piano hit by the rising young star. What I love about this song is how dramatically it changes. We go from sweet and warm to intense and aggressive in a matter of seconds! You don’t normally get to hear such contrasting sounds in a piano ballad, but Olivia has done it!
Note for parents: in our video, we teach the song using clean lyrics, but I’ll be performing the song with its original words at the end of the video.
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This song is built on just a handful of chords: F, A, Asus4, B♭, B♭m, Gm, C, Csus4. Here are diagrams of all the chords in root position:
F
Asus4
B♭m
C
A
B♭
Gm
Csus4
“vampire” is written in F major. So, if you want to improvise your own riffs and fills, remember to flat your Bs.
I wrote [“vampire”] on the piano, the original version, in December of last year, and I really liked it. I remember writing it and feeling like something special was there. And I took it to my producer Dan, and we finished it up together and rewrote some things and produced it. It was quite a long production — it’s pretty lush, so it took us a while. But I’m really happy with the way it came out.
Olivia Rodrigo (Source: Billboard)
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Lisa Witt has been teaching piano for more than 20 years and in that time has helped hundreds of students learn to play the songs they love. Lisa received classical piano training through the Royal Conservatory of Music, but she has since embraced popular music and playing by ear in order to accompany herself and others. Learn more about Lisa.
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