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A Whole Nation: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- C major
- 2/2
- 156 BPM
- 2007
- 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 Whole Nation without reading music. The left hand plays drowsy heartbeat (root bass · 1 · 3 · 4&) and the right hand ticking clock.
A Whole Nation accompaniment in letter notes
The Dm – C – Bb – Am loop with drowsy heartbeat 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 Whole Nation
What are the letter notes for the A Whole Nation 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 Dm – C – Bb – Am, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in A Whole Nation?
The loop is Dm – C – Bb – Am (ii – I – bVII – vi) in C major, and the song ends on F – G – C.
What key is A Whole Nation in?
C major, at about 156 beats a minute in 2/2.
What does the left hand play in A Whole Nation?
Drowsy heartbeat: root bass · 1 · 3 · 4&, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is A Whole Nation 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.