Piano chords · Blues & boogie
A Guy What Takes His Time: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Ralph Rainger
- Bb major
- 4/4
- 98 BPM
- 1932
- 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 Guy What Takes His Time without reading music. The left hand plays rock’n’roll rocker (rock’n’roll 5–6 shuffle) and the right hand wait-a-beat chords.
A Guy What Takes His Time accompaniment in letter notes
The Bb7 – F7 – Bdim – F7 loop with rock’n’roll rocker in the left hand and wait-a-beat 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 Guy What Takes His Time
What are the letter notes for the A Guy What Takes His Time 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 Bb7 – F7 – Bdim – F7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in A Guy What Takes His Time?
The loop is Bb7 – F7 – Bdim – F7 (I7 – V7 – biio – V7) in Bb major, and the song ends on Eb – F – Bb.
What key is A Guy What Takes His Time in?
Bb major, at about 98 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in A Guy What Takes His Time?
Rock’n’roll rocker: rock’n’roll 5–6 shuffle, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is A Guy What Takes His Time 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.