Piano chords · Blues & boogie
A House Is Not A Home: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- F major
- 4/4
- 92 BPM
- 1964
- 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 House Is Not A Home without reading music. The left hand plays velvet jazz (lh shell voicings (1-7 / 1-3)) and the right hand double-skip chords.
The main tune of A House Is Not A Home in letter notes
The real notes from a score, both hands, bar by bar. R is the right hand, L the left; C4 is middle C.
A House Is Not A Home accompaniment in letter notes
The F – F7 – F – Bb – Am7 – Dm7 – F7 loop with velvet jazz in the left hand and double-skip 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 House Is Not A Home
What are the letter notes for the A House Is Not A Home 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 F – F7 – F – Bb – Am7 – Dm7 – F7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in A House Is Not A Home?
The loop is F – F7 – F – Bb – Am7 – Dm7 – F7 (I – I7 – I – IV – iii7 – vi7 – I7) in F major, and the song ends on Bb – C – F.
What key is A House Is Not A Home in?
F major, at about 92 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in A House Is Not A Home?
Velvet jazz: lh shell voicings (1-7 / 1-3), an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is A House Is Not A Home easy to play on piano?
It is a medium one: learn the 7 chords as blocks first, then add the left hand, then the right, slowly.
Can I hear the real melody of A House Is Not A Home?
Yes: "The part you know" plays the main tune of the song from a score, with both hands.
Made from one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.