For those with some experience of the Accompaniment program, you’ll see they are the notes of a Bb Major chord. The left hand plays F, D, Bb and back to F. Whenever you play with a recording, make sure it’s nice and loud so you can hear it over your own playing. Play along with a recording to start to get the rhythm. Play the top finger twice, next finger twice, then fingers 2, 1, 2 & 3. These are all the notes you need, so keep the hand in place with the fingers over their notes the whole time and you won’t have to think about finding notes. Stretch finger 2 out to reach Bb – the black key. Hold them all down like a chord, so you can see them clearly, and start to feel comfortable with that little stretch between fingers 3 & 5. Put RH fingers 1, 3 & 5 on (from the bottom up) the notes A, C and F. The key is a pattern we’ll learn in the right hand, to which we can add a very simple left hand, which we can develop a little further later.Īs always, we’ll handle one thought process at a time, starting with the notes of the right hand, leaving the rhythm aside. Working this out using note-reading would normally not be possible until you were pretty experienced, but if you follow the steps below carefully, you can learn it even if you’re a relative beginner. There’s a catchy piano theme that’s repeated right through the song, and although it may not be written exactly the same way on the page, we can learn a simple pattern and have it sound pretty authentic. But there’s more we can do with the song.
You could take that on after having done a little of the Simply Music Accompaniment program. So that’s the accompaniment dealt with in a flash. So really we just have an F chord in the RH, and F, D, Bb and F in the left. You can play an accompaniment for this song using these chords: an F, an F with a D in the left hand, an F with Bb (top of the three black keys) in the left, and then back to the F. In fact, this song is even simpler than that as an accompaniment, because, if you know a little bit about chords, you’ll discover that you can see the right hand as just a single chord through the entire song while the left hand cycles through three notes. It does not store any personal data.They like to make jokes about pop songs getting away with having only three chords, but that didn’t stop Bruno Mars from winning a Grammy with this one. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
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