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Break Your Heart: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

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  • C minor
  • 4/4
  • 120 BPM
  • 2009
  • Medium
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Left hand Groovy rootsRight hand Offbeat skankChords 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 Break Your Heart without reading music. The left hand plays groovy roots (root bass · syncopated 8ths) and the right hand offbeat skank.

Break Your Heart accompaniment in letter notes

The Cm – Ab – Eb – Gm loop with groovy roots in the left hand and offbeat skank in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Cm
REb4+G4+C5 Eb4+G4+C5 Eb4+G4+C5 Eb4+G4+C5
LC3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3
Bar 2
Ab
RC5+Eb5+Ab5 C5+Eb5+Ab5 C5+Eb5+Ab5 C5+Eb5+Ab5
LAb2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2
Bar 3
Eb
RG4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 4
Gm
RBb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5 D4 Eb4 F4 G4 Ab4 Bb4 C5 D5
LG2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2
Bar 5
Cm
REb4+G4+C5 Eb4+G4+C5 Eb4+G4+C5 Eb4+G4+C5
LC3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3
Bar 6
Ab
RC5+Eb5+Ab5 C5+Eb5+Ab5 C5+Eb5+Ab5 C5+Eb5+Ab5
LAb2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2
Bar 7
Eb
RG4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 8
Gm
RBb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5
LG2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2

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 Break Your Heart

What are the letter notes for the Break Your Heart 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 Cm – Ab – Eb – Gm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Break Your Heart?

The loop is Cm – Ab – Eb – Gm (i – bVI – bIII – v) in C minor, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Cm.

What key is Break Your Heart in?

C minor, at about 120 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Break Your Heart?

Groovy roots: root bass · syncopated 8ths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Break Your Heart 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 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.