Eyes Closed (lyrics, chords)-Ed Sheeran

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Artist | Ed Sheeran,

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Genre | Pop

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Score | Piano Lyrics Chords

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🎹 It is a score for solo piano with no significant technical difficulties. Original lyrics and harmony chords are included in the sheet music.

💽 I added an mp3 file as well.

🗝️ The track is transcribed in the original key D Major. It is always some crookery when a major key is used for a sad song.

The progression is built from a handful of basic chords and doesn't change throughout the track. A chord change marks time and musical structure rather than creates a meaningful harmonic pull.

Notice the ellipsis (silenced, omitted chords) in the last bars of pre-chorus (bars 41—42, 65—66, 97—98, 115, 137—138). It lifts the tired Sheeran's voice.

The melodic line is built on repetition of a chord-root note. The composition lacks intervallic saturation thus its artistic meaning and expression suffer.

Please, notice that the upper stave is written using a treble clef with the numeral 8 below it (a so-called suboctave clef). This indicates that the pitches sound an octave lower. Play the right hand one octave lower than written. I do it to avoid using ledger lines that slower sightreading.

I doubled note values to make sightreading easier for beginners. The track isn't recorded in the ancient 2/2 time. "Eyes Closed" is played with a straight rhythm mixed with swinged in pre-chorused (notated with triplets). The swinged rhythm is associated with the natural flow of a spoken speech and common in blues/jazz music and the straight one is the most basic pop-rock rhythm. Notice syncopation in the bridge 02:31.

But be sure not to play in a mechanical way. Strive for a loose and bouncing feel accenting strong beats. Take care to maintain a steady pulse and play along with the recording if you find that the memory eludes you. Practice "Eyes Closed" slowly.

To keep listeners attention, the chorus was made to be the biggest part of a song. The first and second verses/choruses are different, play them differently, as expressively as possible. If some notes prove too difficult to play, simply omit them focusing on emotions instead of sightreading.

"Eyes Closed" is a song with a heterophonic arrengement — a percussive riff can be counted as a counterpoint. The riff is written out in the intro but I didn't put it in the left hand part because it's too complicated to play for beginners. If you need a duo for piano and voice, play the riff throughout the song and a singer sings the vocal line.

Vocal in the original track is sinuous and complex, marked by subtle bends and slides, with intense ornamentation. It is impossible to convey on piano with a fixed pitch of the keys. A predominant vocal style is legato, all slurred notes are vocal bends and to should be barely heard.

The last bar with the tonic chord is added by me. Modern commercial music doesn't resolve on tonic to push a listener to repeat the track on a streaming service.

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