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Blue Jeans: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Lana Del Rey

  • F minor
  • 4/4
  • 60 BPM
  • Tricky
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Left hand Heartbeat octavesRight hand HailstonesChords 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 Blue Jeans without reading music. The left hand plays heartbeat octaves (rocking octaves) and the right hand hailstones.

Blue Jeans accompaniment in letter notes

The Fm – Eb – Bb – Fm loop with heartbeat octaves in the left hand and hailstones in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Fm
RF5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 C5 C5 C5 C5 D5
LF2 F3 F2 F3
Bar 2
Eb
REb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Bb4 Bb4 Bb4 Bb4 C5
LEb2 Eb3 Eb2 Eb3
Bar 3
Bb
RBb4 Bb4 Bb4 Bb4 Bb4 Bb4 Bb4 Bb4 F4 F4 F4 F4 G4
LBb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb3
Bar 4
Fm
RF5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 C7 Ab6 F6 C6 A5 Ab5 G5 Gb5
LF2 F3 F2 F3
Bar 5
Fm
RF5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 C5 C5 C5 C5 D5
LF2 F3 F2 F3
Bar 6
Eb
REb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Bb4 Bb4 Bb4 Bb4 C5
LEb2 Eb3 Eb2 Eb3
Bar 7
Bb
RBb4 Bb4 Bb4 Bb4 Bb4 Bb4 Bb4 Bb4 F4 F4 F4 F4 G4
LBb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb3
Bar 8
Fm
RF5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 C5 C5 C5 C5 D5
LF2 F3 F2 F3

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 Blue Jeans

What are the letter notes for the Blue Jeans 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 Fm – Eb – Bb – Fm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Blue Jeans?

The loop is Fm – Eb – Bb – Fm (i – bVII – IV – i) in F minor, and the song ends on Db – Eb – Fm.

What key is Blue Jeans in?

F minor, at about 60 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Blue Jeans?

Heartbeat octaves: rocking octaves, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Blue Jeans easy to play on piano?

It is a tricky 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.