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How Great You Are: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Dan Dean & Dave Clark

  • F major
  • 2/2
  • 120 BPM
  • 2001
  • Medium
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Left hand Power fifthsRight hand Double-clap chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

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 Great You Are without reading music. The left hand plays power fifths (lh power fifths) and the right hand double-clap chords.

How Great You Are accompaniment in letter notes

The Bb – C – Db – Bbsus4 loop with power fifths in the left hand and double-clap chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Bb
RF4+Bb4+D5 F4+Bb4+D5 F4+Bb4+D5 F4+Bb4+D5
LBb2+F3 Bb3+F4 Bb3+F4
Bar 2
C
RG4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5
LC3+G3 C4+G4 C4+G4
Bar 3
Db
RAb4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5
LDb3+Ab3 Db4+Ab4 Db4+Ab4
Bar 4
Bbsus4
RF4+Bb4+Eb5 F4+Bb4+Eb5 Bb6 F6 Eb6 Bb5 A5 Ab5 G5 Gb5
LBb2+F3 Bb3+F4 Bb3+F4
Bar 5
Bb
RF4+Bb4+D5 F4+Bb4+D5 F4+Bb4+D5 F4+Bb4+D5
LBb2+F3 Bb3+F4 Bb3+F4
Bar 6
C
RG4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5 G4+C5+E5
LC3+G3 C4+G4 C4+G4
Bar 7
Db
RAb4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5
LDb3+Ab3 Db4+Ab4 Db4+Ab4
Bar 8
Bbsus4
RF4+Bb4+Eb5 F4+Bb4+Eb5 F4+Bb4+Eb5 F4+Bb4+Eb5
LBb2+F3 Bb3+F4 Bb3+F4

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 Great You Are

What are the letter notes for the How Great You Are 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 Bb – C – Db – Bbsus4, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in How Great You Are?

The loop is Bb – C – Db – Bbsus4 (IV – V – bVI – IVsus) in F major, and the song ends on Bb – C – F.

What key is How Great You Are in?

F major, at about 120 beats a minute in 2/2.

What does the left hand play in How Great You Are?

Power fifths: lh power fifths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is How Great You Are 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.