Piano chords · Dreamy ballad
An Old Fashioned Christmas: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- Bb major
- 4/4
- 90 BPM
- 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 An Old Fashioned Christmas without reading music. The left hand plays open sky (open arpeggio 1-5-10) and the right hand pumping chords.
An Old Fashioned Christmas accompaniment in letter notes
The Ebm – Eb – Bb – Ebm loop with open sky in the left hand and pumping 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 An Old Fashioned Christmas
What are the letter notes for the An Old Fashioned Christmas 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 Ebm – Eb – Bb – Ebm, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in An Old Fashioned Christmas?
The loop is Ebm – Eb – Bb – Ebm (iv – IV – I – iv) in Bb major, and the song ends on Eb – F – Bb.
What key is An Old Fashioned Christmas in?
Bb major, at about 90 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in An Old Fashioned Christmas?
Open sky: open arpeggio 1-5-10, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is An Old Fashioned Christmas 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.