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Air Balloon: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Lily Allen

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Left hand Pop heartbeatRight hand Ticking clockChords 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 Air Balloon without reading music. The left hand plays pop heartbeat (root bass · charleston push (1 · 2& · 3)) and the right hand ticking clock.

Air Balloon accompaniment in letter notes

The Eb – Ab – Eb – Ab loop with pop heartbeat in the left hand and ticking clock in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Eb
REb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 2
Ab
RAb4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4
LAb2 Ab2 Ab2
Bar 3
Eb
REb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 4
Ab
RAb4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4 D4 Eb4 F4 G4 Ab4 Bb4 C5 D5
LAb2 Ab2 Ab2
Bar 5
Eb
REb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 6
Ab
RAb4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4
LAb2 Ab2 Ab2
Bar 7
Eb
REb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 8
Ab
RAb4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4 Ab4
LAb2 Ab2 Ab2

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 Air Balloon

What are the letter notes for the Air Balloon 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 Eb – Ab – Eb – Ab, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Air Balloon?

The loop is Eb – Ab – Eb – Ab (I – IV – I – IV) in Eb major, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Eb.

What key is Air Balloon in?

Eb major, at about 96 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Air Balloon?

Pop heartbeat: root bass · charleston push (1 · 2& · 3), an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Air Balloon 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.