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How to play Enjoy The Silence on piano

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Learn Enjoy The Silence in 5 steps

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

1
Chords: Cm – Eb – Cm – Eb
How it goes
Enjoy The Silence sits in C minor: C is home, where the song ends. It goes round 4 chords: Cm is C, Eb and G; Eb is Eb, G and Bb. Play each one as a block with your right hand until the changes feel easy.
CmiEbIIICmiEbIII
- CmC · Eb · G
- EbEb · G · Bb
23 songs go round the same chords
2
Left hand: Stumbling footsteps
How it goes
Steady steps with one tiny stumble right before beat 3. Musicians call it root bass · 1 · 2 · 2a · 3 · 4 (root bass rhythm), an easy pattern heard in 146 songs of the library.
Stumbling footstepsRoot bass rhythm · PopLeft handEasy
3
Right hand: Ticking clock
How it goes
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
4
Both hands at 113 BPM
How it goes
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.
5
Ending: Ab – Bb – Cm
How it goes
The last chords are bVI – bVII – i, then one chord rolled from the bottom up, left to ring.
AbBbCm
- AbAb · C · Eb
- BbBb · D · F

What chords are in Enjoy The Silence?

The loop is Cm – Eb – Cm – Eb (i – bIII – i – bIII) in C minor, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Cm.

What key is Enjoy The Silence in?

C minor, at about 113 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Enjoy The Silence?

Stumbling footsteps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 2a · 3 · 4, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Enjoy The Silence 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 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.