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Do You Want To Know A Secret?: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By The Beatles
- E major
- 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 Do You Want To Know A Secret? without reading music. The left hand plays island pulse (root bass · tresillo 3-3-2) and the right hand pulsing star.
Do You Want To Know A Secret? accompaniment in letter notes
The E – G#m – Gm – F#m loop with island pulse in the left hand and pulsing star 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 Do You Want To Know A Secret?
What are the letter notes for the Do You Want To Know A Secret? 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 E – G#m – Gm – F#m, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Do You Want To Know A Secret??
The loop is E – G#m – Gm – F#m (I – iii – biii – ii) in E major, and the song ends on A – B – E.
What key is Do You Want To Know A Secret? in?
E major, at about 90 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Do You Want To Know A Secret??
Island pulse: root bass · tresillo 3-3-2, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Do You Want To Know A Secret? 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.