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Gives You Hell: piano accompaniment sheet music

By The All-American Rejects

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Left hand Tick-tick-boom pulseRight hand Double-skip chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

Play the full song with sheet music

Gives You Hell written out as piano music: the I – vi – IV – I loop in A major for both hands, with chord names and finger numbers. Press play and follow the cursor. The left hand plays tick-tick-boom pulse (root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4) and the right hand double-skip chords.

Gives You Hell chord chart

The loop once round, bar by bar, in A major. The roman numeral says the chord's place in the key, so the same chart works in any key.

BarChordNumeralNotes
1AIA C# E
2F#mviF# A C#
3DIVD F# A
4AIA C# E

What the sheet music shows

The grand staff: the right hand on the treble staff, the left hand on the bass staff, with the chord names above and a finger number on each note (1 is the thumb). It is the accompaniment: tick-tick-boom pulse (root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4) in the left hand and double-skip chords in the right, over the A – F#m – D – A chords.

Press play and a cursor follows the music. Above it, Colours paints each note in its key’s colour and Note names writes its letter on its head.

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Questions about Gives You Hell

Does the sheet music for Gives You Hell have finger numbers?

Yes: every note of both hands has its finger number, 1 being the thumb. To read the notes alone, turn Fingers off above the music.

What chords are in Gives You Hell?

The loop is A – F#m – D – A (I – vi – IV – I) in A major, and the song ends on D – E – A.

What key is Gives You Hell in?

A major, at about 101 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Gives You Hell?

Tick-tick-boom pulse: root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Gives You Hell 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.