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A Little Respect: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

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Left hand Double-skip footstepsRight hand Springy chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

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 Little Respect without reading music. The left hand plays double-skip footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 2& · 3 · 4 · 4&) and the right hand springy chords.

A Little Respect accompaniment in letter notes

The C – Csus4 – C – Csus4 loop with double-skip footsteps in the left hand and springy chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
C
RG4+B4+D5 C5+E5 G4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5
LC3 C4 C3 C3 C4 C3
Bar 2
Csus4
RG4+B4+D5 C5+F5 G4+C5+F5 G4+C5+F5 G4+C5+F5
LC3 C4 C3 C3 C4 C3
Bar 3
C
RG4+B4+D5 C5+E5 G4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5
LC3 C4 C3 C3 C4 C3
Bar 4
Csus4
RG4+B4+D5 C5+F5 G4+C5+F5 D4 E4 F4 G4 A4 B4 C5 D5
LC3 C4 C3 C3 C4 C3
Bar 5
C
RG4+B4+D5 C5+E5 G4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5
LC3 C4 C3 C3 C4 C3
Bar 6
Csus4
RG4+B4+D5 C5+F5 G4+C5+F5 G4+C5+F5 G4+C5+F5
LC3 C4 C3 C3 C4 C3
Bar 7
C
RG4+B4+D5 C5+E5 G4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5
LC3 C4 C3 C3 C4 C3
Bar 8
Csus4
RG4+B4+D5 C5+F5 G4+C5+F5 G4+C5+F5 G4+C5+F5
LC3 C4 C3 C3 C4 C3

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 Little Respect

What are the letter notes for the A Little Respect 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 C – Csus4 – C – Csus4, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in A Little Respect?

The loop is C – Csus4 – C – Csus4 (I – Isus – I – Isus) in C major, and the song ends on F – G – C.

What key is A Little Respect in?

C major, at about 120 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in A Little Respect?

Double-skip footsteps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 2& · 3 · 4 · 4&, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is A Little Respect 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.