Piano chords · Dreamy ballad
A Cool Shade Of Blue: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- Eb major
- 4/4
- 125 BPM
- 1959
- Medium
Play the full song with sheet music
The accompaniment with every note named, bar by bar: the bar sheet shows each note as a bar on the staff with its letter inside, so you can accompany A Cool Shade Of Blue without reading music. The left hand plays open sky (open arpeggio 1-5-10), and the right hand sings the tune.
A Cool Shade Of Blue accompaniment in letter notes
The Db – Dbm – Gb7 – Cb loop with open sky in the left hand. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.
How to read the bar sheet
The player above shows the treble staff (right hand) over the bass staff (left hand). Every note is a bar as long as it sounds, at its place on the staff, with its name inside, and the music scrolls past a line that marks now. The chord names run along the top.
Start with the left hand alone at a slow speed, then the right, then both. When the letters feel easy, try the sheet music.
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Questions about A Cool Shade Of Blue
What are the letter notes for the A Cool Shade Of Blue piano accompaniment?
Bar by bar, both hands: the bar sheet on this page names every note of the accompaniment (C4 is middle C) and plays along. The loop is Db – Dbm – Gb7 – Cb, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in A Cool Shade Of Blue?
The loop is Db – Dbm – Gb7 – Cb (bVII – bvii – bIII7 – bVI) in Eb major, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Eb.
What key is A Cool Shade Of Blue in?
Eb major, at about 125 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in A Cool Shade Of Blue?
Open sky: open arpeggio 1-5-10, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is A Cool Shade Of Blue easy to play on piano?
It is a medium one: learn the 4 chords as blocks first, then add the left hand, then the right, slowly.
Made from 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.