Transform - Daniel Caesar

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Built with the help of Jay Rob and his piano tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i4qNSOkIsg

I dissected what the piano plays, transformed that into guitar chords and filled the progression up this way. 
So with this version you're able to back the whole song with one single instrument. (However, this isn't just 
the "complicated" piano version now.)


[Chords]

Just suggestions; most of them are "standard jazz chords", play them the way you're used to.

Chords used in the intro:

Dm7     x 5 7 5 6 5     Asus2  x x 7 9 10 7
A7sus2  x x 7 9 8 7     Gm7    3 5 3 3 3 3
A/C#    x 4 7 6 5 x     Gm9    3 5 3 3 3 5 

Fmaj7   x 8 10 9 10 8   F7     x 8 10 8 10 8 
Bmaj7   6 x 7 7 6 x     A7     5 7 5 6 5 5
Ebmaj7  x 6 8 7 8 6     G7     3 5 3 4 3 3

Further chords used afterwards:

Am7     5 7 5 5 5 5     Am9    5 7 5 5 5 7
Abm9    4 6 4 4 4 6     Gbm7   2 4 2 2 2 2
Bm7     7 9 7 7 7 7     D      x 5 7 7 7 5   


Some of these are in fact only played by piano: A7sus2, Gm9 (in the intro), F7. The D chord is only used as 
a synth sound once.

(Click "simplify" down below to play standard chords without extensions.)


[Intro]
      
If a leopard n

ever changes i

ts spots
         
 How can I cha

              
nge what I've 

 
got?
           
Transform, tra

              
nsform, transf

        
orm, transform
           
We don't punis

              
h the tiger fo

   
r catching its

 prey
          
So how am I th

          
e one to blame
            
If it's in my 


nature?
              
Transform, tra

              
nsform, transf


orm
        
 And I don't k

            
now why I figh


t it
              
The least I co

            
uld do is try
              
But ego's in t

    
he way
        
 I know that y

         
ou feel mad to

day
              
But that anger

       
 will fade awa

y
              
And you'll wis

         
h she was here


[Chorus]
       
 It's never ov

      
er until life 

   
ends
            
Lay down besid

         
e me, do it ag


ain
           
It's never ove

       
r until life e

  
nds, yeah
            
Lay down besid

 
e


[Verse 1]
         
 And don't be 

          
a fool, baby I

        
 know you've c

 
hanged
            
It's in my nat

     
ure and it's o


kay (it's okay

)
              
And I'll be yo

           
ur goddess and

       
 you a part of

  
 me, yeah
              
Lay down your 

       
pride,  lay do

     
wn with me


[Verse 2]
         
So ugly but yo

           
u love me, kee

           
p nobody else 

  
above me
           
And that's why

              
 I keep you ar

 
ound
         
 Ain't it funn

              
y, now you're 

           
money; act lik

              
e you don't kn

   
ow nobody
           
What goes roun

              
d gon' come ba

      
ck around


[Chorus]
       
 It's never ov

      
er until life 

   
ends
            
Lay down besid

         
e me, do it ag


ain
           
It's never ove

       
r until life e

  
nds, yeah
            
Lay down besid

 
e


[Bridge]
         
You're my vi- 

olet in the su

n
             
You're the cho

    
- sen one
           
You're my vi- 

      
    olet in th

   
e   sun  (save

           
d my soul like

 Jesus)
             
You're the cho

          
- (Can't quit 

              
you, you're li

           
ke drugs; swea

              
r I tried to c

    
lean up) -sen 

one
           
Too much share

            
d between us; 

            
saved my soul 

 
like Jesus
              
You're my vi- 

         
(Can't quit yo

              
u, you're like

           
 drugs; swear 

             
I tried to cle

   
an up) -let in

 the sun
           
Too much share

            
d between us; 

            
saved my soul 

 
like Jesus
         
Can't quit you

              
, you're like 

           
drugs; swear I

             
 tried to clea

  
n up
           
Too much share

             
d between us; 

           
saved my soul 

 
like Jesus
    

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