Kol Berama – Simcha Leiner
In honor of the upcoming Yahrtzeit of Rachel Imeinu on the 11th of Cheshvan, this week and next week will feature songs about our Mother Rachel.
This week’s song is Kol Berama by one of my favorite singers, Simcha Leiner. I have chord sheets for you today in 4 different keys: Am, Dm, Em, and F#m.
Check out the chord pattern!
If you look at the chords, you will notice something interesting:
There is a repeating pattern of chords throughout the entire first part and the chorus.
Each line (I have tried to line it up so it is obvious to see!) begins with the chords Am, F, C and then ends with either G (these lines I have labeled with “A”) or Em (labeled with “B”).
This pattern of “A” and “B” alternating lines can be seen from the beginning of the song right through the chorus. What this also means is that the first part of the song and the chorus share the same chord sequence (and even the same timing). The melody is different, but the chords remain the same.
Try it out!
If you don’t believe me, you can try it out for yourself!
Play the following recording (Kol Berama in F#m) and sing along to it starting from the beginning of the song.
Now play the same recording again. This time, sing along to it starting from the beginning of the chorus.
No matter which part you sing, the same piano accompaniment sounds great with it because the two parts share the same chords!
Download the Sheet Music
Chords and Lyrics (chords for piano or guitar!)
Kol Berama in Am
Melody and Chords
Kol Berama Melody and Chords in Am
Kol Berama Melody and Chords in Em
Melody with Left Hand
Kol Berama Melody with Left Hand in Am
Kol Berama Melody with Left Hand in Em
thanks for emailing this for me. Do you think you will be getting the actual notes for the treble and bass lines for piano.??
Updated to include treble and bass lines and melody with chords options. Happy playing!
Beautiful song. Is the last chord in both Melody and Chords version supposed to be Major or Minor?
Thank you for your question!
It is actually a major chord (though you would have guessed minor, right?).
If you listen to the ending of song on the original recording, you will hear that it finishes with that last chord as a major chord – but only at the very end of the song, not in the middle when it is going to repeat or going back to other parts of the song.
This is one of the reasons I try to listen to the recording before transcribing a song; it takes longer, but is more accurate than relying on my memory! (However, I am not always as meticulous with the melody, because it is indeed incredibly tedious to do it that way, and close enough is usually more than sufficient!)
Thank you.
i thought it was a harmony chord…
isnt there usually a harmony chord (or something else) at the end of every song to add more effect to the song?
It could be that there is a name for this technique (harmony chord?), though I have not heard of it before. You are right that many songs do this – if the song is in a minor key, the song ends on the major chord that shares the same name with the minor chord that would be expected there. For example, if the song is in Am (it will often begin and end in Am, or begin or end in Am, and frequently subsections of the song will begin and/or end in Am as well), the last chord of the song might be an A Major chord.
Certainly not every song ends this way. There aren’t actually rules that songs have to follow. But there are definitely techniques and trends that are common in each genre of music, and this one finds its way into lots of songs!
Even rules like scales, chords, and keys are there as general guidelines, but artists can and do feel free to break them all the time!
Change all the Em to Em7 (it’s easy, just keep the D string open on the guitar). The very last Em can go either way. Otherwise awesome chords! Been looking for chords to this song everywhere!
Thanks for the tip! I do quite like the Em7!