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How to play Ready To Run on piano

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Learn Ready To Run in 5 steps

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

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Chords: G – C – G – D
Ready To Run sits in G major: G is home, where the song ends. It goes round 4 chords: G is G, B and D; C is C, E and G; D is D, F# and A. Play each one as a block with your right hand until the changes feel easy.
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- GG · B · D
- CC · E · G
- DD · F# · A
144 songs go round the same chords
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Left hand: Tick-tick-boom pulse
Two quick low notes and a high one, twice: ta-ta-DUM, ta-ta-DUM. Musicians call it root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4 (root bass rhythm), a medium pattern heard in 479 songs of the library.
Tick-tick-boom pulseRoot bass rhythm · PopLeft handMedium
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Right hand: Jump-in chords
Jumps in just after beat 1, pumps through, and stops before the end. It moves with the chords, so it fits every bar of the loop.
Jump-in chordsSyncopated chords · PopRight handMedium
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Both hands at 120 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: D – C – G
The last chords are V – IV – I, then one chord rolled from the bottom up, left to ring.
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What chords are in Ready To Run?

The loop is G – C – G – D (I – IV – I – V) in G major, and the song ends on D – C – G.

What key is Ready To Run in?

G major, at about 120 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Ready To Run?

Tick-tick-boom pulse: root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Ready To Run 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.