Piano chords · Rock drive
How Bad Can I Be: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By John Powell
- E major
- 4/4
- 88 BPM
- Medium
Play the full song with sheet music
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 Bad Can I Be without reading music. The left hand plays engine 8ths (root bass · 8ths) and the right hand pumping chords.
How Bad Can I Be accompaniment in letter notes
The E7 – D – A – E7 loop with engine 8ths in the left hand and pumping 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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Questions about How Bad Can I Be
What are the letter notes for the How Bad Can I Be 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 E7 – D – A – E7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in How Bad Can I Be?
The loop is E7 – D – A – E7 (I7 – bVII – IV – I7) in E major, and the song ends on A – B – E.
What key is How Bad Can I Be in?
E major, at about 88 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in How Bad Can I Be?
Engine 8ths: root bass · 8ths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is How Bad Can I Be 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.