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How to play Straight From The Heart on piano

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Learn Straight From The Heart 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 – F – G
Straight From The Heart sits in C major: C is home, where the song ends. It goes round 4 chords: G is G, B and D; C is C, E and G; F is F, A and C. Play each one as a block with your right hand until the changes feel easy.
GVCIFIVGV
- GG · B · D
- CC · E · G
- FF · A · C
87 songs go round the same chords
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Left hand: Pop heartbeat
Long, short, long: the heartbeat under a thousand pop songs. Musicians call it root bass · charleston push (1 · 2& · 3) (root bass rhythm), an easy pattern heard in thousands of songs of the library.
Pop heartbeatRoot bass rhythm · PopLeft handEasy
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Right hand: Swinging lantern
Two notes far apart swing back and forth like a lantern in the wind. It moves with the chords, so it fits every bar of the loop.
Swinging lanternTwo-note ostinato · BalladRight handMedium
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Both hands at 90 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: C – G – C
The last chords are I – V – I, then one chord rolled from the bottom up, left to ring.
CGC

What chords are in Straight From The Heart?

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

What key is Straight From The Heart in?

C major, at about 90 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Straight From The Heart?

Pop heartbeat: root bass · charleston push (1 · 2& · 3), an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Straight From The Heart 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.