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Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here!: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Arthur Seymour Sullivan
- G major
- 6/8
- 120 BPM
- V7–ii–V7–I loop
- 1994
- 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 Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here! without reading music. The left hand plays swelling 6/8 (open arpeggio 1-5-8-10-8-5 (6/8)) and the right hand hammock chords.
Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here! accompaniment in letter notes
The D7 – Am – D7 – G loop with swelling 6/8 in the left hand and hammock 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 Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here!
What are the letter notes for the Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here! 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 D7 – Am – D7 – G, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here!?
The loop is D7 – Am – D7 – G (V7 – ii – V7 – I) in G major, and the song ends on G – D7 – G.
What key is Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here! in?
G major, at about 120 beats a minute in 6/8.
What does the left hand play in Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here!?
Swelling 6/8: open arpeggio 1-5-8-10-8-5 (6/8), a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here! 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.