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

By Scott Wiseman

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Left hand Three-step climbRight hand Soft 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 three-step climb (broken chord 1-5-8) and the right hand soft chords.

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

The G7 – C – Dm – G7 loop with three-step climb in the left hand and soft chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
G7
RD5+G5+B5 D5+G5+B5 D5+G5+B5
LG2 D3 G3
Bar 2
C
RG4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5
LC3 G3 C4
Bar 3
Dm
RA4+D5+F5 A4+D5+F5 A4+D5+F5
LD2 A2 D3
Bar 4
G7
RD5+G5+B5 F4 G4 B4 D5 F5 G5 B5 D6
LG2 D3 G3
Bar 5
G7
RD5+G5+B5 D5+G5+B5 D5+G5+B5
LG2 D3 G3
Bar 6
C
RG4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5
LC3 G3 C4
Bar 7
Dm
RA4+D5+F5 A4+D5+F5 A4+D5+F5
LD2 A2 D3
Bar 8
G7
RD5+G5+B5 D5+G5+B5 D5+G5+B5
LG2 D3 G3

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 G7 – C – 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 G7 – C – Dm – G7 (V7 – I – 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 140 beats a minute in 4/4.

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

Three-step climb: broken chord 1-5-8, 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 4 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.