Right-hand pattern · Pop heartbeat
Dance-floor chords
Off-centre chords keep landing between the beats: a dance-floor groove. Musicians call it syncopated chords on beats 1, 1a, 2&, 3&, 4e.
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How Dance-floor chords goes
One bar over a C chord: a row for each key, a column for each step, the finger on each note. Over another chord, move the same shape to its root.
Syncopated chords: Chords that land between the beats: that pop push.
Songs with Dance-floor chords
Each one opens with this pattern in its player.
Often comes next
The patterns songs move to after Dance-floor chords, from verse to chorus.
More pushing chords
All patternsQuestions about Dance-floor chords
What is Dance-floor chords on piano?
Off-centre chords keep landing between the beats: a dance-floor groove. Musicians call it syncopated chords on beats 1, 1a, 2&, 3&, 4e, one of the syncopated chords patterns: chords that land between the beats: that pop push.
How do I play syncopated chords · 1 · 1a · 2& · 3& · 4e with the right hand?
Over C major it is C4 (1) + G4 (2) + C5 (5), then C4 (1) + G4 (2) + C5 (5), then C4 (1) + G4 (2) + C5 (5), then C4 (1) + G4 (2) + C5 (5), then C4 (1) + G4 (2) + C5 (5); the number after each note is the finger (1 is the thumb). Over any other chord, move the same shape to that chord's root.
What songs use Dance-floor chords?
It is heard in 33 songs of the library, as the main groove of 12 songs, such as Don’t Stop The Music, Don’t You Worry Child, Ironic, Pick Up The Pieces.
Is Dance-floor chords easy?
It is an easy pattern, in 4/4, usually around 100 beats a minute.