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Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Irving Berlin

  • C major
  • 4/4
  • 84 BPM
  • 1952
  • Medium
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Left hand Power fifthsRight hand Soft chordsChords from the chord symbols in the score

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 Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep without reading music. The left hand plays power fifths (lh power fifths) and the right hand soft chords.

The catchy part of Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep 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.

Bar 1
Am → Em
RC4+E4+C5 B3+E4+B4 G4 E4
LA2 E3 G2
Bar 2
Fmaj7 → F7 → Em7
RA3+E4+A4 Eb4+F4 G3+D4+G4 C4 G4
LF2+C3 E2+B2 C3
Bar 3
Fmaj7 → F7 → Em7
RA3+E4+A4 Eb4+F4 G3+D4+G4 G4 C4 E4
LF2+C3 E2+B2 C3
Bar 4
Dm7 → E7
RF3+C4+F4 B3+D4 G#3+C4+E4 B3 D4
LD2+A2 E2+D3

Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep accompaniment in letter notes

The Am – Em – Fmaj7 – F7 – Em7 – Fmaj7 – F7 – Em7 – Dm7 – E7 loop with power fifths in the left hand and soft chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Am → Em
RE4+A4+C5 B4+E5+G5 B4+E5+G5
LA3+E4 A3+E4 E2+B2
Bar 2
Fmaj7 → F7 → Em7
RC5+F5+A5 B4+E5+G5 B4+E5+G5
LF3+C4 E3+B3 E2+B2
Bar 3
Fmaj7 → F7 → Em7
RC5+F5+A5 B4+E5+G5 B4+E5+G5
LF3+C4 F3+C4 E2+B2
Bar 4
Dm7 → E7
RA4+D5+F5 G#6 E6 D6 B5 G#5 G5 F#5 F5
LD3+A3 E3+B3 E2+B2
Bar 5
Am → Em
RE4+A4+C5 B4+E5+G5 B4+E5+G5
LA3+E4 A3+E4 E2+B2
Bar 6
Fmaj7 → F7 → Em7
RC5+F5+A5 B4+E5+G5 B4+E5+G5
LF3+C4 E3+B3 E2+B2
Bar 7
Fmaj7 → F7 → Em7
RC5+F5+A5 B4+E5+G5 B4+E5+G5
LF3+C4 F3+C4 E2+B2
Bar 8
Dm7 → E7
RA4+D5+F5 B4+E5+G#5 B4+E5+G#5
LD3+A3 E3+B3 E2+B2

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 Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep

What are the letter notes for the Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep 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 Am – Em – Fmaj7 – F7 – Em7 – Fmaj7 – F7 – Em7 – Dm7 – E7, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep?

The loop is Am – Em – Fmaj7 – F7 – Em7 – Fmaj7 – F7 – Em7 – Dm7 – E7 (vi – iii – IVmaj7 – IV7 – iii7 – IVmaj7 – IV7 – iii7 – ii7 – III7) in C major, and the song ends on C – F – C.

What key is Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep in?

C major, at about 84 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep?

Power fifths: lh power fifths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep easy to play on piano?

It is a medium one: learn the 10 chords as blocks first, then add the left hand, then the right, slowly.

Can I hear the real melody of Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep?

Yes: "The part you know" plays the catchy part of the song from a score, with both hands.

Made from 3 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.