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How to play Adding To The Noise on piano

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Learn Adding To The Noise in 5 steps

The chords first, then one hand at a time. Each step plays in the player above.

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Chords: D – A – Bm – D
Adding To The Noise sits in D major: D is home, where the song ends. It goes round 4 chords: D is D, F# and A; A is A, C# and E; Bm is B, D and F#. Play each one as a block with your right hand until the changes feel easy.
DIAVBmviDI
- DD · F# · A
- AA · C# · E
- BmB · D · F#
58 songs go round the same chords
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Left hand: Power fifths
Root and fifth together: big and bold. Musicians call it lh power fifths (left-hand chords), a medium pattern heard in thousands of songs of the library.
Power fifthsLeft-hand chords · RockLeft handMedium
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Right hand: Ticking clock
One high note repeated on every quick beat: tick, tick, tick. It moves with the chords, so it fits every bar of the loop.
Ticking clockRepeated-note pulse · RockRight handMedium
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Both hands at 144 BPM
Put the two hands together over the loop. Start at half speed with the player's speed control, and bring it up once every change is easy.
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Ending: G – A – D
The last chords are IV – V – I, then one chord rolled from the bottom up, left to ring.
GAD
- GG · B · D

What chords are in Adding To The Noise?

The loop is D – A – Bm – D (I – V – vi – I) in D major, and the song ends on G – A – D.

What key is Adding To The Noise in?

D major, at about 144 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Adding To The Noise?

Power fifths: lh power fifths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Adding To The Noise easy to play on piano?

It is a medium one: learn the 4 chords as blocks first, then add the left hand, then the right, slowly.

Made from one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.