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Beautiful Goodbye: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Adam Levine, Benjamin Levin & others

  • Bb major
  • 4/4
  • 84 BPM
  • 2012
  • Medium
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Left hand Tick-tick-boom pulseRight hand Offbeat skankChords 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 Beautiful Goodbye without reading music. The left hand plays tick-tick-boom pulse (root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4) and the right hand offbeat skank.

Beautiful Goodbye accompaniment in letter notes

The Bb – Ebsus4 – Gm – Bb loop with tick-tick-boom pulse in the left hand and offbeat skank in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Bb
RD4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4
LBb2 Bb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb2 Bb3
Bar 2
Ebsus4
RAb4+Bb4+Eb5 Ab4+Bb4+Eb5 Ab4+Bb4+Eb5 Ab4+Bb4+Eb5
LEb2 Eb2 Eb3 Eb2 Eb2 Eb3
Bar 3
Gm
RBb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5
LG2 G2 G3 G2 G2 G3
Bar 4
Bb
RD4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 Eb4 F4 G4 A4 Bb4 C5 D5 Eb5
LBb2 Bb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb2 Bb3
Bar 5
Bb
RD4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4
LBb2 Bb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb2 Bb3
Bar 6
Ebsus4
RAb4+Bb4+Eb5 Ab4+Bb4+Eb5 Ab4+Bb4+Eb5 Ab4+Bb4+Eb5
LEb2 Eb2 Eb3 Eb2 Eb2 Eb3
Bar 7
Gm
RBb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5
LG2 G2 G3 G2 G2 G3
Bar 8
Bb
RD4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4
LBb2 Bb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb2 Bb3

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 Beautiful Goodbye

What are the letter notes for the Beautiful Goodbye 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 Bb – Ebsus4 – Gm – Bb, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Beautiful Goodbye?

The loop is Bb – Ebsus4 – Gm – Bb (I – IVsus – vi – I) in Bb major, and the song ends on Eb – F – Bb.

What key is Beautiful Goodbye in?

Bb major, at about 84 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Beautiful Goodbye?

Tick-tick-boom pulse: root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Beautiful Goodbye 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.