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Before The Night Ends: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Yanni

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Left hand Open skyThe right hand sings the tuneChords 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 Before The Night Ends without reading music. The left hand plays open sky (open arpeggio 1-5-10), and the right hand sings the tune.

Before The Night Ends accompaniment in letter notes

The C – D – Em – C loop with open sky in the left hand. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
C
RC4+E4+G4
LC3 G3 E4
Bar 2
D
RD4+F#4+A4
LD2 A2 F#3
Bar 3
Em
RE4+G4+B4
LE2 B2 G3
Bar 4
C
RC4+E4+G4 E4 G4 C5 E5 G5 C6 E6 G6
LC3 G3 E4
Bar 5
C
RC4+E4+G4
LC3 G3 E4
Bar 6
D
RD4+F#4+A4
LD2 A2 F#3
Bar 7
Em
RE4+G4+B4
LE2 B2 G3
Bar 8
C
RC4+E4+G4
LC3 G3 E4

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 Before The Night Ends

What are the letter notes for the Before The Night Ends 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 C – D – Em – C, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Before The Night Ends?

The loop is C – D – Em – C (IV – V – vi – IV) in G major, and the song ends on C – D – G.

What key is Before The Night Ends in?

G major, at about 112 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Before The Night Ends?

Open sky: open arpeggio 1-5-10, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Before The Night Ends 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.