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I woke up in a very Uke mood, if you know what I mean...let's learn a new song! Today I'm learning,  Viva La Vida by Coldplay. I've been playing the ukulele for almost a year now, so I'm able to pick up songs a bit quicker than it used to take me, but there's always something new to learn. :)

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<center><h1>Why Viva La Vida?</h1></center>
This is a song that was requested by my girlfriend a few week's ago(and it just rocks, talk about an epic build-up), however I was unable to find any tabs of the song, boo-hiss (not a huge fan of all chord songs). Fortunately, after taking to YouTube and searching in ukulele fingerstyle I was able to come across a 16 minute tutorial by a guy who says he's no good at making tabs xD. That's okay, my friend, thanks for the tutorial. I'll be using Gino Silvestre's [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyB5q7bb1l8) to learn today's song. 

<center><h2>Today's Goal</h2></center>
The goal is to be able to play this song withing a week, but you know...life happens. Either way, I'll be playing a lot of Coldplay around the apartment for awhile. I'll also be producing the tabs for this song once I've got the fingering down, so that others can learn it without watching the 16 minute tutorial and going "wait..what chord is that?" 
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<center><h2>The Actual Song</h2></center>
It's always good to have a point of reference. Also, I realize that some people may have never heard this song...though, I believe it was an international hit, so...yea. Well, anyway, here's the original Viva La Vida by Coldplay. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvgZkm1xWPE

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<h2>Song Notes(Actual Notes, like writing)</h2>
<i>I'll be coming back to re-edit this post after the live stream, with any basic notes that I can share on learning the song.</i>

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<center>Thanks for <i>tuning</i> in </center>

My live stream is at [DLive](https://dlive.io/livestream/ukuleletutorials/f57ce12d-43fb-11e8-9f5b-0242ac110002)