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Can I Have This Dance: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By High School Musical 3

  • C major
  • 3/4
  • 135 BPM
  • 2008
  • Medium
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Left hand Moon River rollRight hand Waltz chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

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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 Can I Have This Dance without reading music. The left hand plays moon river roll (open arpeggio 1-5-10 (3/4)) and the right hand waltz chords.

Can I Have This Dance accompaniment in letter notes

The G – Am – C – G loop with moon river roll in the left hand and waltz chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
G
RG4+B4+D5 G4+B4+D5 G4+B4+D5
LG2 D3 B3
Bar 2
Am
RA3+C4+E4 A3+C4+E4 A3+C4+E4
LA2 E3 C4
Bar 3
C
RC4+E4+G4 C4+E4+G4 C4+E4+G4
LC3 G3 E4
Bar 4
G
RG4+B4+D5 G4 B4 D5 G5 B5 D6 G6 B6
LG2 D3 B3
Bar 5
G
RG4+B4+D5 G4+B4+D5 G4+B4+D5
LG2 D3 B3
Bar 6
Am
RA3+C4+E4 A3+C4+E4 A3+C4+E4
LA2 E3 C4
Bar 7
C
RC4+E4+G4 C4+E4+G4 C4+E4+G4
LC3 G3 E4
Bar 8
G
RG4+B4+D5 G4+B4+D5 G4+B4+D5
LG2 D3 B3

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 Can I Have This Dance

What are the letter notes for the Can I Have This Dance 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 G – Am – C – G, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Can I Have This Dance?

The loop is G – Am – C – G (V – vi – I – V) in C major, and the song ends on C – Csus4 – C.

What key is Can I Have This Dance in?

C major, at about 135 beats a minute in 3/4.

What does the left hand play in Can I Have This Dance?

Moon River roll: open arpeggio 1-5-10 (3/4), a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Can I Have This Dance 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.