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A Fool’s Dance: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Phillip Phillips
- D major
- 6/8
- 98 BPM
- 2012
- Medium
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 Fool’s Dance without reading music. The left hand plays hammock heartbeat (root bass · 6/8 lilt) and the right hand cradle chords.
A Fool’s Dance accompaniment in letter notes
The Bm – D – Bm – D loop with hammock heartbeat in the left hand and cradle chords in the right. 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 Fool’s Dance
What are the letter notes for the A Fool’s Dance 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 Bm – D – Bm – D, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in A Fool’s Dance?
The loop is Bm – D – Bm – D (vi – I5 – vi – I5) in D major, and the song ends on D – Bm – D.
What key is A Fool’s Dance in?
D major, at about 98 beats a minute in 6/8.
What does the left hand play in A Fool’s Dance?
Hammock heartbeat: root bass · 6/8 lilt, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is A Fool’s Dance 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 one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.