Chords for Opening, Glassworks - How to play

_ _ Here's a bit of simple counting to get you going on this Philip Glass's beautiful piece,
_ Opening from Glassworks.
It's a little bit tricky _ because you're playing a different rhythm with your right hand and your left hand,
but once you get into a simple little rhythm of counting, _ it should all come together for you.
Anyway, here we go.
Give this a whirl. _
With your right hand, _ _ count in this way.
_ _ [Fm] 1, 2 and 3, 1, 2 and 3, 1, 2 and 3, 1, 2 and 3, 1, 2 and 3, 1, 2 _ _ _ and 3, 1, 2 and 3. _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ Now the [N] and is where the little sort of _ syncopated beat _ comes in from your left hand,
which is of [E] course playing [Fm] this. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [N] _ So if you put the two together with the count,
that's probably the easiest way for me to demonstrate to you _ how all the little beats fit together.
So here we go with the 2 hands with that same count, 1, 2 and 3.
[G] _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ 1, 2 and, 3, 1, 2 and 3, 1, 2 and 3, 1, 2 and 3, 1, 2 and 3, 1, 2 and 3, 1, 2 and 3, 1, 2 and 3, 1, 2 and 3.
[N] And so on.
So you can see that with the left hand every second _ note that you're playing, so in the
first bar they're all C's and in the second bar, _ those notes, every second note, those
C's are coming on the and, the 1, 2 and 3.
_ _ So I hope this little simple technique gets
you going if you've been having any problems _ _ coordinating yourself with this piece.
It
certainly took me a little bit to get my right brain and left brain going on this one.
_ Anyway,
have fun with it folks! _ _
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