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How Can I Blame You: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by John Stephens, Blake Mills & others
- D major
- 4/4
- 76 BPM
- I–V–vi–IV loop
- 2016
- 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 Can I Blame You without reading music. The left hand plays stumbling footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 2a · 3 · 4) and the right hand ticking clock.
How Can I Blame You accompaniment in letter notes
The D – A – Bm – G loop with stumbling footsteps in the left hand and ticking clock 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 Can I Blame You
What are the letter notes for the How Can I Blame 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 D – A – Bm – G, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in How Can I Blame You?
The loop is D – A – Bm – G (I – V – vi – IV) in D major, and the song ends on G – A – D.
What key is How Can I Blame You in?
D major, at about 76 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in How Can I Blame You?
Stumbling footsteps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 2a · 3 · 4, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is How Can I Blame You 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.