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Grow Old With Me: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Mary Chapin Carpenter

  • G major
  • 4/4
  • 100 BPM
  • Medium
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Left hand Open skyRight hand Wait-a-beat chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

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 Grow Old With Me without reading music. The left hand plays open sky (open arpeggio 1-5-10) and the right hand wait-a-beat chords.

Grow Old With Me accompaniment in letter notes

The D – G – Em – Bm loop with open sky in the left hand and wait-a-beat chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
D
RF#4+A4+D5 F#4+A4+D5 F#4+A4+D5
LD2 A2 F#3
Bar 2
G
RB4+D5+G5 B4+D5+G5 B4+D5+G5
LG2 D3 B3
Bar 3
Em
RG4+B4+E5 G4+B4+E5 G4+B4+E5
LE2 B2 G3
Bar 4
Bm
RD4+F#4+B4 F#4 B4 D5 F#5 B5 D6 F#6 B6
LB2 F#3 D4
Bar 5
D
RF#4+A4+D5 F#4+A4+D5 F#4+A4+D5
LD2 A2 F#3
Bar 6
G
RB4+D5+G5 B4+D5+G5 B4+D5+G5
LG2 D3 B3
Bar 7
Em
RG4+B4+E5 G4+B4+E5 G4+B4+E5
LE2 B2 G3
Bar 8
Bm
RD4+F#4+B4 D4+F#4+B4 D4+F#4+B4
LB2 F#3 D4

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 Grow Old With Me

What are the letter notes for the Grow Old With Me 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 – G – Em – Bm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Grow Old With Me?

The loop is D – G – Em – Bm (V – I – vi – iii) in G major, and the song ends on C – D – G.

What key is Grow Old With Me in?

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

What does the left hand play in Grow Old With Me?

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

Is Grow Old With Me 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.