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Hiding Place: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Don Moen

  • D major
  • 4/4
  • 69 BPM
  • 2006
  • Medium
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Left hand Tick-tick-boom pulseRight hand Push chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

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 Hiding Place without reading music. The left hand plays tick-tick-boom pulse (root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4) and the right hand push chords.

Hiding Place accompaniment in letter notes

The Bm – F#m – Em – Bm loop with tick-tick-boom pulse in the left hand and push chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Bm
RD4+F#4+B4 D4+F#4+B4 D4+F#4+B4
LB2 B2 B3 B2 B2 B3
Bar 2
F#m
RA4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5
LF#2 F#2 F#3 F#2 F#2 F#3
Bar 3
Em
RG4+B4+E5 G4+B4+E5 G4+B4+E5
LE2 E2 E3 E2 E2 E3
Bar 4
Bm
RD4+F#4+B4 D4+F#4+B4 D4+F#4+B4 C#4 D4 E4 F#4 G4 A4 B4 C#5
LB2 B2 B3 B2 B2 B3
Bar 5
Bm
RD4+F#4+B4 D4+F#4+B4 D4+F#4+B4
LB2 B2 B3 B2 B2 B3
Bar 6
F#m
RA4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5
LF#2 F#2 F#3 F#2 F#2 F#3
Bar 7
Em
RG4+B4+E5 G4+B4+E5 G4+B4+E5
LE2 E2 E3 E2 E2 E3
Bar 8
Bm
RD4+F#4+B4 D4+F#4+B4 D4+F#4+B4
LB2 B2 B3 B2 B2 B3

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 Hiding Place

What are the letter notes for the Hiding Place 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 Bm – F#m – Em – Bm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Hiding Place?

The loop is Bm – F#m – Em – Bm (vi – iii – ii – vi) in D major, and the song ends on G – A – D.

What key is Hiding Place in?

D major, at about 69 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Hiding Place?

Tick-tick-boom pulse: root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Hiding Place 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.