Left-hand pattern · Waltz garden
Moonlit waves
Rolls up to a high note and back down, slow and wide in three. Musicians call it open arpeggio 1-5-10-5 (3/4).
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How Moonlit waves 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.
Open arpeggio: The left hand rolls up through the chord and back, like a wave.
Songs with Moonlit waves
Each one opens with this pattern in its player.
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The patterns songs move to after Moonlit waves, from verse to chorus.
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What is Moonlit waves on piano?
Rolls up to a high note and back down, slow and wide in three. Musicians call it open arpeggio 1-5-10-5 (3/4), one of the open arpeggio patterns: the left hand rolls up through the chord and back, like a wave.
How do I play open arpeggio 1-5-10-5 (3/4) with the left hand?
Over C major it is C3 (5), then G3 (2), then E4 (1), then G3 (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 Moonlit waves?
It is heard in 84 songs of the library, as the main groove of 15 songs, such as God Help The Outcasts, Feed The Birds (Tuppence A Bag), Christmas Time Is Here, Infant Holy, Infant Lowly.
Is Moonlit waves easy?
It is a medium pattern, in 3/4, usually around 110 beats a minute.