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Au Jardin Des Sans-Pourquoi: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Josh Groban Kate McGarrigle & Rufus Wainwright

  • C minor
  • 6/8
  • 90 BPM
  • 2010
  • Medium
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Left hand Swelling 6/8Right hand Pirate-stomp chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

Play the full song with sheet music

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 Au Jardin Des Sans-Pourquoi without reading music. The left hand plays swelling 6/8 (open arpeggio 1-5-8-10-8-5 (6/8)) and the right hand pirate-stomp chords.

Au Jardin Des Sans-Pourquoi accompaniment in letter notes

The G7 – Cm – G – Cm loop with swelling 6/8 in the left hand and pirate-stomp chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
G7
RB4+D5 B4+D5 B4+D5
LG2 D3 G3 B3 G3 D3
Bar 2
Cm
REb4+G4 Eb4+G4 Eb4+G4
LC3 G3 C4 Eb4 C4 G3
Bar 3
G
RB4+D5 B4+D5 B4+D5
LG2 D3 G3 B3 G3 D3
Bar 4
Cm
REb4+G4 Eb4+G4 G4 C5 Eb5 G5 C6 Eb6
LC3 G3 C4 Eb4 C4 G3
Bar 5
G7
RB4+D5 B4+D5 B4+D5
LG2 D3 G3 B3 G3 D3
Bar 6
Cm
REb4+G4 Eb4+G4 Eb4+G4
LC3 G3 C4 Eb4 C4 G3
Bar 7
G
RB4+D5 B4+D5 B4+D5
LG2 D3 G3 B3 G3 D3
Bar 8
Cm
REb4+G4 Eb4+G4 Eb4+G4
LC3 G3 C4 Eb4 C4 G3

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 Au Jardin Des Sans-Pourquoi

What are the letter notes for the Au Jardin Des Sans-Pourquoi 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 G7 – Cm – G – Cm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Au Jardin Des Sans-Pourquoi?

The loop is G7 – Cm – G – Cm (V7 – i – V – i) in C minor, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Cm.

What key is Au Jardin Des Sans-Pourquoi in?

C minor, at about 90 beats a minute in 6/8.

What does the left hand play in Au Jardin Des Sans-Pourquoi?

Swelling 6/8: open arpeggio 1-5-8-10-8-5 (6/8), a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Au Jardin Des Sans-Pourquoi 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.