Piano chords · Rock drive
A Horse With No Name: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By America
- B minor
- 4/4
- 100 BPM
- 1972
- 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 Horse With No Name without reading music. The left hand plays giant steps (lh chords) and the right hand ticking clock.
A Horse With No Name accompaniment in letter notes
The B7 – Em – B7 – Em loop with giant steps in the left hand and ticking clock 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 Horse With No Name
What are the letter notes for the A Horse With No Name 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 B7 – Em – B7 – Em, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in A Horse With No Name?
The loop is B7 – Em – B7 – Em (I7 – iv – I7 – iv) in B minor, and the song ends on G – A – Bm.
What key is A Horse With No Name in?
B minor, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in A Horse With No Name?
Giant steps: lh chords, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is A Horse With No Name 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.