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By Your Side: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
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- G major
- 2/2
- 128 BPM
- Medium
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 By Your Side without reading music. The left hand plays mozart murmur (alberti bass 1-5-3-5) and the right hand rocking thirds.
The catchy part of By Your Side in letter notes
The real notes from a score, both hands, bar by bar. R is the right hand, L the left; C4 is middle C.
By Your Side accompaniment in letter notes
The Em7 – C – G – D loop with mozart murmur in the left hand and rocking thirds in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.
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 By Your Side
What are the letter notes for the By Your Side 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 Em7 – C – G – D, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in By Your Side?
The loop is Em7 – C – G – D (vi7 – IV – I – V) in G major, and the song ends on Em – C – G.
What key is By Your Side in?
G major, at about 128 beats a minute in 2/2.
What does the left hand play in By Your Side?
Mozart murmur: alberti bass 1-5-3-5, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is By Your Side 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.
Can I hear the real melody of By Your Side?
Yes: "The part you know" plays the catchy part of the song from a score, with both hands.
Made from one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.