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Close To You: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- C minor
- 4/4
- 90 BPM
- 1963
- Medium
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 Close To You without reading music. The left hand plays walking roots (root bass · quarters) and the right hand ticking clock.
Close To You accompaniment in letter notes
The Fb7 – Fbm – Am – F loop with walking roots in the left hand and ticking clock 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 Close To You
What are the letter notes for the Close To You 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 Fb7 – Fbm – Am – F, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Close To You?
The loop is Fb7 – Fbm – Am – F (III7 – iii – vi – IV) in C minor, and the song ends on Am – F – C.
What key is Close To You in?
C minor, at about 90 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Close To You?
Walking roots: root bass · quarters, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Close To You 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.