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Have Love Will Travel: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By The Sonics

  • Eb major
  • 4/4
  • 104 BPM
  • 1959
  • Medium
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Left hand Engine 8thsRight hand Candle flickerChords 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 Love Will Travel without reading music. The left hand plays engine 8ths (root bass · 8ths) and the right hand candle flicker.

Have Love Will Travel accompaniment in letter notes

The Eb – Bb – Cm – Ab loop with engine 8ths in the left hand and candle flicker in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Eb
RG4 Eb4 G4 Eb4 G4 Eb4 G4 Eb4
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 2
Bb
RD4 Bb3 D4 Bb3 D4 Bb3 D4 Bb3
LBb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2
Bar 3
Cm
REb4 C4 Eb4 C4 Eb4 C4 Eb4 C4
LC3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3
Bar 4
Ab
RC5 Ab4 C5 Ab4 Ab6 Eb6 C6 Ab5 G5 Gb5 F5 Fb5
LAb2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2
Bar 5
Eb
RG4 Eb4 G4 Eb4 G4 Eb4 G4 Eb4
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 6
Bb
RD4 Bb3 D4 Bb3 D4 Bb3 D4 Bb3
LBb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2
Bar 7
Cm
REb4 C4 Eb4 C4 Eb4 C4 Eb4 C4
LC3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3
Bar 8
Ab
RC5 Ab4 C5 Ab4 C5 Ab4 C5 Ab4
LAb2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2

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 Love Will Travel

What are the letter notes for the Have Love Will Travel 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 Eb – Bb – Cm – Ab, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Have Love Will Travel?

The loop is Eb – Bb – Cm – Ab (I – V – vi – IV) in Eb major, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Eb.

What key is Have Love Will Travel in?

Eb major, at about 104 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Have Love Will Travel?

Engine 8ths: root bass · 8ths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Have Love Will Travel 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.