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More Noah Kahan

"Pain Is Cold Water"

The track is transcribed in the original key, F Sharp Major, and uses basic major and minor chords B F♯ D♯m C♯. The harmony employs distantly related chords.

The vocals are typed using an optional 𝄠 suboctave clef (the treble clef with the numeral 8 below it). Sing the right hand one octave lower than written but play it in anu octave you prefer the sound of.

"Pain Is Cold Water" is composed with a rubato rhythm in triple meter 3/4. Accent strong beats but do it softly. It is more than 6 minutes long and has almost 300 measures.

Learn the left hand first and avoid learning both hands together in the very beginning. Patience is a virtue. Otherwise you will fail immediately and abandon the score.

The left-hand texture is thick and makes great use of the bass register.

The right hand imitates the vocal delivery by Naoh Kahan: a predominant vocal style is tenuto.

Pitch inflections (slurred notes) should be played quietly.

Play pianissimo. 

There are many places of an indefinite pitch.

The composition consists of three major parts: two somewhat equal verses ending in the chorus and the long outro about student-austronaut.

Verses he published but the outro is taken from his old TikTok live (without his mishaps).