HOW TO PLAY THE JAWS THEME ON PIANO (SUPER EASY BEGINNERS LESSON)

DUN DUN…. DUN DUN…. Goosebumps. That’s what we all get when we first hear those first two notes in the darkness at the start of Jaws. Before we even see the shark, we hear it. An audible imprint conditioning us to expect the worst before even the first frame. I can’t say I’m particularly musical, but whenever I pass a piano I have to play the Jaws theme. Who doesn’t. In the video featured in this blog, you’re going to learn to play the whole of the main shark theme from Jaws!

John Williams’ film score for Jaws is one of, if not the most recognisable movie soundtrack ever created. Capturing the terror of the shark and the thrill of the chase, John Williams raised the movie musical bar. But there is one piece within this soundtrack that stands alone as likely the most aped, spoofed and performed pieces in the World… “(Main Title) Theme From Jaws”.

The main "shark" theme, a simple alternating pattern of two notes—variously identified as "E and F" or "F and F sharp"—became a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with approaching danger.

Jaws director Steven Spielberg re-recruited John Williams after a successful partnership on his first feature ‘Sugarland Express’ (1974) famously laughed upon hearing the Jaws theme for the first time. After hearing Williams play it a few more times at differing tempos, Spielberg loved the idea the simplicity of would what be his movie’s signature sound.