Right-hand pattern · Dreamy ballad
Jazzy flicker
Two notes with a big gap between them flicker in a smooth, jazzy colour. Musicians call it two-note ostinato 3-7.
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How Jazzy flicker 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.
Two-note ostinato: Two notes rocking back and forth in the right hand.
Songs with Jazzy flicker
Each one opens with this pattern in its player.
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The patterns songs move to after Jazzy flicker, from verse to chorus.
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What is Jazzy flicker on piano?
Two notes with a big gap between them flicker in a smooth, jazzy colour. Musicians call it two-note ostinato 3-7, one of the two-note ostinato patterns: two notes rocking back and forth in the right hand.
How do I play two-note ostinato 3-7 with the right hand?
Over C major it is E4 (1), then B4 (5), then E4 (1), then B4 (5), then E4 (1), then B4 (5), and so on; 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 Jazzy flicker?
It is heard in 16 songs of the library, as the main groove of 1 song, such as Walk Away, Breathe Again, We Are, Higher.
Is Jazzy flicker easy?
It is a medium pattern, in 4/4, usually around 100 beats a minute.