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Sunrise
Three notes keep climbing in quick loops, bright like the morning sun. Musicians call it rising arpeggio 1-3-5.
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How Sunrise 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.
Rising arpeggio: The right hand climbs the chord again and again.
Songs with Sunrise
Each one opens with this pattern in its player.
Often comes next
The patterns songs move to after Sunrise, from verse to chorus.
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All patternsQuestions about Sunrise
What is Sunrise on piano?
Three notes keep climbing in quick loops, bright like the morning sun. Musicians call it rising arpeggio 1-3-5, one of the rising arpeggio patterns: the right hand climbs the chord again and again.
How do I play rising arpeggio 1-3-5 with the right hand?
Over C major it is C4 (1), then E4 (3), then G4 (5), then C4 (1), then E4 (3), then G4 (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 Sunrise?
It is heard in 33 songs of the library, as the main groove of 2 songs, such as Schindler's List, Stardust, Air Mail Special, Take That Look Off Your Face.
Is Sunrise easy?
It is a medium pattern, in 4/4, usually around 120 beats a minute.