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Giddy Up Gideon: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Chad Bosarge
- D major
- 4/4
- 100 BPM
- 2001
- 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 Giddy Up Gideon without reading music. The left hand plays bounce-back seesaw (root–fifth 1-1-5-1) and the right hand running-late chords.
Giddy Up Gideon accompaniment in letter notes
The D – D#dim – Em – A loop with bounce-back seesaw in the left hand and running-late 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 Giddy Up Gideon
What are the letter notes for the Giddy Up Gideon 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 D – D#dim – Em – A, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Giddy Up Gideon?
The loop is D – D#dim – Em – A (I – biio – ii – V) in D major, and the song ends on G – A – D.
What key is Giddy Up Gideon in?
D major, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Giddy Up Gideon?
Bounce-back seesaw: root–fifth 1-1-5-1, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Giddy Up Gideon 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.