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How to play Give A Little More on piano

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Learn Give A Little More in 5 steps

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

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Chords: Dm – Gm – Dm – Gm
Give A Little More sits in F major: F is home, where the song ends. It goes round 4 chords: Dm is D, F and A; Gm is G, Bb and D. Play each one as a block with your right hand until the changes feel easy.
DmviGmiiDmviGmii
- DmD · F · A
- GmG · Bb · D
40 songs go round the same chords
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Left hand: Fluttering heartbeat
A quick flutter before beat 2, then a push before beat 3. Musicians call it root bass · 1 · 1a · 2 · 2& · 3& · 4 (root bass rhythm), a medium pattern heard in 152 songs of the library.
Fluttering heartbeatRoot bass rhythm · PopLeft handMedium
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Right hand: Pumping chords
A chord on every eighth note, driving the song forward. It moves with the chords, so it fits every bar of the loop.
Pumping chordsPumping 8ths · RockRight handMedium
4
Both hands at 118 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: Bb – C – F
The last chords are IV – V – I, then one chord rolled from the bottom up, left to ring.
BbCF
- BbBb · D · F
- CC · E · G
- FF · A · C

What chords are in Give A Little More?

The loop is Dm – Gm – Dm – Gm (vi – ii – vi – ii) in F major, and the song ends on Bb – C – F.

What key is Give A Little More in?

F major, at about 118 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Give A Little More?

Fluttering heartbeat: root bass · 1 · 1a · 2 · 2& · 3& · 4, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Give A Little More 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.