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Fortress Around Your Heart: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Sting
- Bb major
- 4/4
- 120 BPM
- 1985
- 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 Fortress Around Your Heart without reading music. The left hand plays double-skip footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 2& · 3 · 4 · 4&) and the right hand freeze-tag chords.
Fortress Around Your Heart accompaniment in letter notes
The Gsus4 – C – Gm – C loop with double-skip footsteps in the left hand and freeze-tag 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 Fortress Around Your Heart
What are the letter notes for the Fortress Around Your Heart 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 Gsus4 – C – Gm – C, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Fortress Around Your Heart?
The loop is Gsus4 – C – Gm – C (VIsus – II5 – vi – II5) in Bb major, and the song ends on Eb – F – Bb.
What key is Fortress Around Your Heart in?
Bb major, at about 120 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Fortress Around Your Heart?
Double-skip footsteps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 2& · 3 · 4 · 4&, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Fortress Around Your Heart 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.