If you are listening carefully to the video above, you'll notice that the beginning chord patterns are played again at the end of the song - with just one or two twists.Īrranging this intermediate arrangement was a joint venture between me and one of my sisters. The Titanic song DOES have lyrics, (girls will frequently sing them as they play the piano notes - so far I haven't detected any boys singing along!) but I have not included the lyrics in the intermediate arrangement - only in the beginner and late elementary versions.

We start early, by transposing beginner songs (such as Mary Had a Little Lamb, or Snake Charmer, or Twinkle) into all the many keys, adding chords. This mean that the song has a polyphonic texture as it the melody is played by two or more instruments. The songs Composed by James Horner and lyrics by Will Jennings. Titanic Main Song There are only three main instruments in this piece flutes, bagpipes and pianos as it captures the mood and emotions between the two lovers on board the Titanic ship. The song toppled the charts all over the world and became the best selling single of 1998 and one of the best of all time.

There are lots of sharps in the intermediate level of My Heart Will Go On! If kids haven't yet played in the key of E, they need a bit of preparation, in my opinion. Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Titanic) Piano Tutorial 'My Heart Will Go On' is the theme song of the 1997 Successful film 'Titanic'. There is lots of helpful fingering throughout the piece.īoth left and right hands make use of a stretched broken chord pattern I call the 'broken chord stretch.' With my students, we build up from the most basic of chord patterns to harder patterns that require more hand coordination.Īt my 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' page, you can see that metamorphosis.

The titanic theme song on piano