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Microdisney – Sleepless Piano, Guitar & Keyboard Chord Progression

ChordsA F#m7 Bm7 E E7 Dm7 Em7 Dm Em D F C7 Gm C11 Cm7

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This is the chord progression of Sleepless by Microdisney on Piano, Guitar and Keyboard.

[Verse 1]
A F#m7 Bm7 E
There was blood where he once had eyes
A F#m7 Bm7 E7
In the fog at the doctor’s door
Dm7       Em7
Could you not go anywhere else
Dm Em A E D E7
My wife and sons are asleep
Dm7          Em7
And the doctor did what he could
Dm                Em
And he gave him love on the floor

[Verse 2]
A F#m7 Bm7 E
He was cured and was given sight
A F#m7 Bm7 E7
And deprived of the will to die
F C7 Gm C11 F C7 Gm C11
Cm7 Dm7
And he soon forgot his old friends
Cm7 Dm7
For he needed purpose now

[Verse 3]
A F#m7 Bm7    E
The cathedral was big and black
A    F#m7 Bm7    E7
It was the doctor who brought him here
Dm7       Em7
And on Sundays you will come
Dm Em A E D E7
With your suit and wife and son

[Outro/Fade]
Dm7          Em7
God bless the doctor’s trade
Dm                Em
And the lovely quagmire he made
Dm7             Em7
They have built a race who can’t read
Dm                Em
And are sleepless like the sun

Dm7 Em7 Dm Em

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How to play Sleepless: key, chords and progression

Sleepless by Microdisney keeps coming home to C major (no sharps or flats). You need 15 chords: A, F#m7, Bm7, E, E7, Dm7, Em7, Dm, Em, D, F and C7 and 3 more.

Most of the song cycles through Dm7 – Em7 – Dm – Em (ii7 – iii7 – ii – iii in C major). In solfa, that is reh – mi – reh – mi. Get these 4 changes smooth and the rest comes quickly.

Good to know: F#m7, Bm7, F, Gm and C11 are the tricky part on guitar (barre or movable shapes). Slow the change down until it is clean; on piano and ukulele they are simpler.