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Engagement Party: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Justin Hurwitz

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Left hand Open skyThe 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 Engagement Party without reading music. The left hand plays open sky (open arpeggio 1-5-10), and the right hand sings the tune.

Engagement Party accompaniment in letter notes

The Ab – Bb7 – Eb – Cm loop with open sky in the left hand. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5
LAb2 Eb3 C4
Bar 2
Bb7
RBb3+D4+F4
LBb2 F3 D4
Bar 3
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Bb2 G3
Bar 4
Cm
RC4+Eb4+G4 G4 C5 Eb5 G5 C6 Eb6 G6 C7
LC3 G3 Eb4
Bar 5
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5
LAb2 Eb3 C4
Bar 6
Bb7
RBb3+D4+F4
LBb2 F3 D4
Bar 7
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Bb2 G3
Bar 8
Cm
RC4+Eb4+G4
LC3 G3 Eb4

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 Engagement Party

What are the letter notes for the Engagement Party 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 Ab – Bb7 – Eb – Cm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Engagement Party?

The loop is Ab – Bb7 – Eb – Cm (IV – V7 – I – vi) in Eb major, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Eb.

What key is Engagement Party in?

Eb major, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Engagement Party?

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

Is Engagement Party 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 one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.