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Devil Take The Hindmost: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Left hand Moon River rollThe right hand sings the tuneChords 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 Devil Take The Hindmost without reading music. The left hand plays moon river roll (open arpeggio 1-5-10 (3/4)), and the right hand sings the tune.

Devil Take The Hindmost accompaniment in letter notes

The Fm – Bbm – C7 – Fm loop with moon river roll in the left hand. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Fm
RF4+Ab4+C5
LF2 C3 Ab3
Bar 2
Bbm
RBb3+Db4+F4
LBb2 F3 Db4
Bar 3
C7
RC4+E4+G4
LC3 G3 E4
Bar 4
Fm
RF4+Ab4+C5 F4 Ab4 C5 F5 Ab5 C6 F6 Ab6
LF2 C3 Ab3
Bar 5
Fm
RF4+Ab4+C5
LF2 C3 Ab3
Bar 6
Bbm
RBb3+Db4+F4
LBb2 F3 Db4
Bar 7
C7
RC4+E4+G4
LC3 G3 E4
Bar 8
Fm
RF4+Ab4+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 Devil Take The Hindmost

What are the letter notes for the Devil Take The Hindmost 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 Fm – Bbm – C7 – Fm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Devil Take The Hindmost?

The loop is Fm – Bbm – C7 – Fm (i – iv – V7 – i) in F minor, and the song ends on Db – Eb – Fm.

What key is Devil Take The Hindmost in?

F minor, at about 100 beats a minute in 3/4.

What does the left hand play in Devil Take The Hindmost?

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 Devil Take The Hindmost 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.