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How About Me?: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Irving Berlin
- Eb major
- 4/4
- 80 BPM
- 1928
- Tricky
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 How About Me? without reading music. The left hand plays mountain leap (wide arpeggio 1-5-15) and the right hand eager chords.
How About Me? accompaniment in letter notes
The Bb7 – Eb – Ebm – Bb loop with mountain leap in the left hand and eager 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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The same left hand: Mountain leap
Questions about How About Me?
What are the letter notes for the How About Me? 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 Bb7 – Eb – Ebm – Bb, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in How About Me??
The loop is Bb7 – Eb – Ebm – Bb (V7 – I – i – V) in Eb major, and the song ends on Eb – Fm – Eb.
What key is How About Me? in?
Eb major, at about 80 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in How About Me??
Mountain leap: wide arpeggio 1-5-15, a tricky pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is How About Me? easy to play on piano?
It is a tricky 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.