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How to play Bring The Rain on piano

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Learn Bring The Rain in 5 steps

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

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Chords: A – D – A – D
Bring The Rain sits in A major: A is home, where the song ends. It goes round 4 chords: A is A, C# and E; D is D, F# and A. Play each one as a block with your right hand until the changes feel easy.
AIDIVAIDIV
- AA · C# · E
- DD · F# · A
782 songs go round the same chords
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Left hand: Push and land
A push just before beat 3, then two calm landings. Musicians call it root bass · 1 · 2& · 3 · 4 (root bass rhythm), an easy pattern heard in thousands of songs of the library.
Push and landRoot bass rhythm · PopLeft handEasy
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Right hand: Running-late chords
Misses beat 1, then hurries in with busy chords around the beats. It moves with the chords, so it fits every bar of the loop.
Running-late chordsSyncopated chords · PopRight handMedium
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Both hands at 80 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: F#m – D – A
The last chords are vi – IV – I, then one chord rolled from the bottom up, left to ring.
F#mDA
- F#mF# · A · C#

What chords are in Bring The Rain?

The loop is A – D – A – D (I – IV – I – IV) in A major, and the song ends on F#m – D – A.

What key is Bring The Rain in?

A major, at about 80 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Bring The Rain?

Push and land: root bass · 1 · 2& · 3 · 4, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Bring The Rain 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.