Piano chords · Rock drive

How to play Here's To You on piano

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Learn Here's To You in 5 steps

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

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Chords: Ab – Ab – Ab – Ab
Here's To You sits in Ab major: Ab is home, where the song ends. It goes round 4 chords: Ab is Ab, C and Eb. Play each one as a block with your right hand until the changes feel easy.
AbIAbIAbIAbI
- AbAb · C · Eb
17 songs go round the same chords
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Left hand: Engine 8ths
The lowest note on every eighth: the engine of rock. Musicians call it root bass · 8ths (root bass rhythm), a medium pattern heard in thousands of songs of the library.
Engine 8thsRoot bass rhythm · RockLeft handMedium
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Right hand: Offbeat skank
Chords only on the “and”: reggae and swing. It moves with the chords, so it fits every bar of the loop.
Offbeat skankOffbeat chords · Blues and boogie-woogieRight handEasy
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Both hands at 126 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: Db – Eb – Ab
The last chords are IV – V – I, then one chord rolled from the bottom up, left to ring.
DbEbAb
- DbDb · F · Ab
- EbEb · G · Bb

What chords are in Here's To You?

The loop is Ab – Ab – Ab – Ab (I5 – I – I5 – I) in Ab major, and the song ends on Db – Eb – Ab.

What key is Here's To You in?

Ab major, at about 126 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Here's To You?

Engine 8ths: root bass · 8ths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Here's To You 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.