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Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

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Left hand Boom-chickRight hand Wait-a-beat chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

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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 Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? without reading music. The left hand plays boom-chick (boom-chick) and the right hand wait-a-beat chords.

Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? accompaniment in letter notes

The C – A7 – Dm – G7 loop with boom-chick 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
C
RE4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5
LC4 E4+G4 G3 E4+G4
Bar 2
A7
RC#4+E4+A4 C#4+E4+A4 C#4+E4+A4
LA3 C#4+E4 E3 C#4+E4
Bar 3
Dm
RF4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5
LD3 F3+A3 A2 F3+A3
Bar 4
G7
RB4+D5+G5 G6 F6 D6 B5 Ab5 G5 F#5 F5
LG3 B3+D4 D3 B3+D4
Bar 5
C
RE4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5
LC4 E4+G4 G3 E4+G4
Bar 6
A7
RC#4+E4+A4 C#4+E4+A4 C#4+E4+A4
LA3 C#4+E4 E3 C#4+E4
Bar 7
Dm
RF4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5
LD3 F3+A3 A2 F3+A3
Bar 8
G7
RB4+D5+G5 B4+D5+G5 B4+D5+G5
LG3 B3+D4 D3 B3+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 Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?

What are the letter notes for the Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? 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 C – A7 – Dm – G7, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Have I Told You Lately That I Love You??

The loop is C – A7 – Dm – G7 (I – VI7 – ii – V7) in C major, and the song ends on Dm – G7 – C.

What key is Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? in?

C major, at about 56 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Have I Told You Lately That I Love You??

Boom-chick: boom-chick, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? easy to play on piano?

Yes. Both hands play easy patterns over 4 chords. Learn the chords first, then add one hand at a time.

Made from one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.