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Dancing Through Life: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Stephen Schwartz

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Left hand Open skyRight hand Woodblock tapsChords 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 Dancing Through Life without reading music. The left hand plays open sky (open arpeggio 1-5-10) and the right hand woodblock taps.

Dancing Through Life accompaniment in letter notes

The Db – Eb – Cm – Fm loop with open sky in the left hand and woodblock taps in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Db
RDb5 Db5 Db5 Db5 Db5 Ab4
LDb3 Ab3 F4
Bar 2
Eb
REb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Bb4
LEb2 Bb2 G3
Bar 3
Cm
RC5 C5 C5 C5 C5 G4
LC3 G3 Eb4
Bar 4
Fm
RF5 F5 F5 F4 Ab4 C5 F5 Ab5 C6 F6 Ab6
LF2 C3 Ab3
Bar 5
Db
RDb5 Db5 Db5 Db5 Db5 Ab4
LDb3 Ab3 F4
Bar 6
Eb
REb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Eb5 Bb4
LEb2 Bb2 G3
Bar 7
Cm
RC5 C5 C5 C5 C5 G4
LC3 G3 Eb4
Bar 8
Fm
RF5 F5 F5 F5 F5 C5
LF2 C3 Ab3

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 Dancing Through Life

What are the letter notes for the Dancing Through Life 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 Db – Eb – Cm – Fm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Dancing Through Life?

The loop is Db – Eb – Cm – Fm (IV – V – iii – vi) in Ab major, and the song ends on Db – Eb – Ab.

What key is Dancing Through Life in?

Ab major, at about 100 beats a minute in 2/2.

What does the left hand play in Dancing Through Life?

Open sky: open arpeggio 1-5-10, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Dancing Through Life 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 3 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.