Piano chords · Dreamy ballad

How to play Someone Nice Like You on piano

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Learn Someone Nice Like You in 5 steps

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

1
Chords: C7 – F – Dm – Gm
How it goes
Someone Nice Like You sits in F major: F is home, where the song ends. It goes round 4 chords: C7 is C, E, G and Bb; F is F, A and C; 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.
C7V7FIDmviGmii
- C7C · E · G · Bb
- FF · A · C
- DmD · F · A
- GmG · Bb · D
34 songs go round the same chords
2
Left hand: Rolling waves
How it goes
Rolls up to the high third and back down, like a wave on the shore. Musicians call it open arpeggio 1-5-10-5 (open arpeggio), a medium pattern heard in 545 songs of the library.
Rolling wavesOpen arpeggio · BalladLeft handMedium
3
Right hand: Wait-a-beat chords
How it goes
Silence on beat 1, then chords on 2, 3 and 4, leaving room for the bass. It moves with the chords, so it fits every bar of the loop.
Wait-a-beat chordsBlock chords · PopRight handEasy
4
Both hands at 100 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.
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Ending: F – Bbm – F
How it goes
The last chords are I – iv – I, then one chord rolled from the bottom up, left to ring.
FBbmF
- BbmBb · Db · F

What chords are in Someone Nice Like You?

The loop is C7 – F – Dm – Gm (V7 – I – vi – ii) in F major, and the song ends on F – Bbm – F.

What key is Someone Nice Like You in?

F major, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Someone Nice Like You?

Rolling waves: open arpeggio 1-5-10-5, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Someone Nice Like 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.