In this article, you will learn how to play Sa Susunod na Habang Buhay. The part that will be learning will be the Chords of the song with the exact melodies from the song.
Released on 2020, Sa Susunod na Habang Buhay is sung by Ben&Ben – a 9-piece OPM Band that is on the circulation since 2017. Their style on their songs is a combination of folk, pop and poprock genres. You will hear guitar riffs that is sounded folk including the percussions excluding drums. Their electric guitar solos is packed with rock style riffs so when you hear their songs, it’s new to ears because of its genre fusion.
The song starts by the melody of the piano with bass drums and percussions. The piano on the verse part is 1 chords per bar. and only subly heard. Of course the vocals are now in action. There is a pad sound on the other parts of the song. The violin enters in the middle part of the song. When it comes to the guitar solo, you will notice that the sound has increased its dynamics especially in the last chorus. The song will end on a chorus-like part but with piano, violin only until the last moment which also has cymbals.
How to play Sa Susunod na Habang Buhay in Keyboard Piano
The song is not as hard as it seems. You can start by learning the chords of the song in Piano first. Next to focus on is the melodies. Lastly, the synth pad part combining the piano. For this part, your keyboard must have a split/layer feature to do this. Much better if you can adjust the volume of the second sound while performing the appearance of the pad. If not, you can just do the piano part.
Intro
The intro is split in to to parts, the left (chords) and the right (melody) side. On the left side, there are only 4 chords: G F#m Em D. You will repeat this 4 times. For the melody part, it is recommended that you also press the octave of the notes. Will show this later.
Left Hand G Chord
Left Hand F#m Chord
Left Hand Em Chord
Left Hand D Chord
You will notice that I have only used 2 notes of the triad. The first and the fifth. The reason that I’m not doing a triad on the left hand because since the sound is at the bass part, adding the third will make the sound ‘muddy’.
For the right hand melody of the intro, these are the notes respectively: (D – E – F#) (D – C# – B – A – F#)
Right Hand D Note
Right Hand E Note
Right Hand F# Note
Right Hand D Note
Right Hand C# Note
Right Hand B Note
Right Hand A Note
Right Hand F# Note
Along with the chord, you will do this melody 4 times. However, on the fourth time, you are only doing the half of it because in the song, the guitar will do the other half of the intro. So the notes are only (D – E – F#) (D).
Verse
The verse part, you only needed to do the chords of the part. No melodies/riffs on this part yet. The chords are the following: GM7 F#m Em D. As you can see, the chords are the similart to intro. The only exception is you will also do the chords on the right hand as well.
Pre-Chorus
The easy part on this part of the song is you will only have to play 1 chords. And that chord is the G Chord. This is where the melody of the piano will be done. Do the first drop of the G Chord (Left and Right Hands) then perform the melody (B – C#) (E – F#) (D). The first two notes must be done in the higher part of the keyboard. While the next notes must be done in the lower octave than the first. On the last note (D), this is where your layered pad will be inserted. After this melody, you only gonna to G until the Chorus part.
Chorus
The chords used in the chorus are the following: D F#m Bm7 G Em Bm. When you do the D chord, the layered pad must also performed here as well. Then you will do the intro again. But the difference is the chord on the left side will be only D chord and F#m. So it’s 1/4 shorter than the first intro. When you do the chorus on the second time, no need to do the intro since the guitar solo will take place.
Guitar Solo
This is a bit different from the Chorus. The chords are the following, D F#m Bm7 A F#m G. You will do this on the left and right hand side. No melodies on your piano part here. After this solo, the part is chorus-like but the chords are different. The difference are from the start and end chords only. The chords are: G F#m Bm7 G Em A
Last Chorus
The last chorus is different from the first two chorus. This chorus has an additional chords. There are two additional chords which is F#m and G. Therefore the chord progression of this final chorus are the following (the additional chords are highlight by bold format): D F#m Bm7 G Em Bm F#m G. At the G part, there is a drop for about 9 times. So the G chords will be tapped or pressed 9 times before going to the next and last part of this song.
Last Part
On the part with lyrics “Ikaw parin”, it is a D chord but if you hear the song, there is no instrument or piano sound of chord. The sound is a melody. The descending melodies are (C# – B – A ). The next part will have no piano sound at all. On the lyric “Sa susunod na habang buhay”, there is a piano notes that is played at the same time on the words “habang bu”. The notes are the same on the voice notes. When uttered the syllable “hay” from “habang buhay”, do the D triad chord on the left side with melodies on the triad played in exact order: (D – F# – A) (D – A) (F# – A).
In order for you to understand the tutorial visually, I will share my video tutorial on this below. If you follow my instructions, you can play it the same as Pat of Ben&Ben plays it. How you enjoy this article.
