Piano chords · Dreamy ballad
Faraway Eyes: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
- F major
- 4/4
- 100 BPM
- I–IV–I–V7 loop
- 1978
- Medium
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 Faraway Eyes without reading music. The left hand plays yo-yo bounce (broken chord 8-5-8) and the right hand double-skip chords.
Faraway Eyes accompaniment in letter notes
The F – Bb – F – C7 loop with yo-yo bounce in the left hand and double-skip chords 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 Faraway Eyes
What are the letter notes for the Faraway Eyes 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 F – Bb – F – C7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Faraway Eyes?
The loop is F – Bb – F – C7 (I – IV – I – V7) in F major, and the song ends on Bb – C – F.
What key is Faraway Eyes in?
F major, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Faraway Eyes?
Yo-yo bounce: broken chord 8-5-8, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Faraway Eyes 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.