True Story

Ariana Grande  

At the request of the copyright holder Universal Music Publishing Group, the minimum price is $5.99.

An easy piano transcription made by request.

ABOUT THE SONG

Lyrics are always included in my sheet music, singing is good for health.

Imitate the vocal delivery by Ariana Grande or it won't sound as the song. The vocal part is relatively rigid built on repetition of one note. The composition has a single melodic idea and lacks intervalic saturation thus its artistic meaning and expression suffer.

A predominant vocal style is staccato.

You can omit playing "Give me love" backing vocal in the chorus.

"True Story" is played with a straight rhythm in common time. It is easy to count for beginners; accent strong beats to maintain a steady pulse. Practice slowly along with the recording.

Composition: Verse I — Verse II — Ending

The composition has no bridge or any third theme. To keep listeners attention, the chorus of "True Story" was made to be the biggest part of the song. I colored it blue for your convenience: it is easier to learn a piece of music when you have a mental scheme of it. Play every part differently, as expressively as possible. If some notes are too difficult to play, omit them focusing on emotions instead of sightreading.

A single vocal line accompanied by an airy instrumental part constitutes the entire musical texture. "True Story" has a semi-improvised, loosely organized and wandering melody and homophonic arrengement: the instrumental part provides a harmony to support the vocal but lacks its own melody.

"True Story" is transcribed in the original key, A Minor in its harmonic (or Aeolian ♯7) version due to the use of the E chord with G♯ (augmented major seventh chord), where G♯ is the augmented seventh degree in the key of A Major.

The progression only uses Am F Dm E.

Notice the ellipsis (omitted chords).

Of course I consider filling your *requests* of sheet music except for not popular tracks.