Right-hand pattern · Waltz garden
Spinning-top chords
Six even chords in a three-beat bar, spinning round and round. Musicians call it syncopated chords in 3/4 8ths.
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How Spinning-top 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 Spinning-top chords
Each one opens with this pattern in its player.
Often comes next
The patterns songs move to after Spinning-top chords, from verse to chorus.
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All patternsQuestions about Spinning-top chords
What is Spinning-top chords on piano?
Six even chords in a three-beat bar, spinning round and round. Musicians call it syncopated chords in 3/4 8ths, one of the syncopated chords patterns: chords that land between the beats: that pop push.
How do I play syncopated chords · 3/4 8ths with the right hand?
Over C major it is C4 (1) + E4 (3) + G4 (5), then C4 (1) + E4 (3) + G4 (5), then C4 (1) + E4 (3) + G4 (5), then C4 (1) + E4 (3) + G4 (5), then C4 (1) + E4 (3) + G4 (5), then C4 (1) + E4 (3) + G4 (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 Spinning-top chords?
It is heard in 89 songs of the library, as the main groove of 31 songs, such as Greatest Show On Earth, Prelude In C Major, Op. 38, No. 1, A Boy Needs A Dog, Jesus Paid It All.
Is Spinning-top chords easy?
It is a medium pattern, in 3/4, usually around 118 beats a minute.