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Giant waltz
Warm low chords on all three beats, like a slow church waltz. Musicians call it left-hand chords (3/4).
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How Giant waltz 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.
Left-hand chords: Small left-hand chords pushing the beat.
Songs with Giant waltz
Each one opens with this pattern in its player.
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What is Giant waltz on piano?
Warm low chords on all three beats, like a slow church waltz. Musicians call it left-hand chords (3/4), one of the left-hand chords patterns: small left-hand chords pushing the beat.
How do I play lh chords (3/4) with the left hand?
Over C major it is E3 (5) + G3 (3) + Db4 (1), then E3 (5) + G3 (3) + C4 (2), then E3 (5) + G3 (3) + C4 (2); 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 Giant waltz?
It is heard in 328 songs of the library, as the main groove of 46 songs, such as Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring, BWV 147, How Deep The Father’s Love For Us, Davy Jones, Prelude In C Major, Op. 38, No. 1.
Is Giant waltz easy?
It is an easy pattern, in 3/4, usually around 100 beats a minute.