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How to play You Are Loved on piano

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Learn You Are Loved 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 – D – Bm – A
You Are Loved sits in D major: D is home, where the song ends. It goes round 4 chords: G is G, B and D; D is D, F# and A; Bm is B, D and F#; A is A, C# and E. Play each one as a block with your right hand until the changes feel easy.
GIVDIBmviAV
- GG · B · D
- DD · F# · A
- BmB · D · F#
- AA · C# · E
62 songs go round the same chords
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Left hand: Groovy roots
Notes jump around the “ands”, giving the bass a funky bounce. Musicians call it root bass · syncopated 8ths (root bass rhythm), a medium pattern heard in 363 songs of the library.
Groovy rootsRoot bass rhythm · PopLeft handMedium
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Right hand: Steady chords
A full chord on every beat, steady and simple. It moves with the chords, so it fits every bar of the loop.
Steady chordsBlock chords · PopRight handEasy
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Both hands at 104 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: G – A – D
The last chords are IV – V – I, then one chord rolled from the bottom up, left to ring.
GAD

What chords are in You Are Loved?

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

What key is You Are Loved in?

D major, at about 104 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in You Are Loved?

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

Is You Are Loved 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.