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How Little We Know: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Philip Springer

  • F major
  • 4/4
  • 100 BPM
  • 1956
  • Medium
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Left hand Open skyRight hand Hopscotch bellsChords 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 How Little We Know without reading music. The left hand plays open sky (open arpeggio 1-5-10) and the right hand hopscotch bells.

How Little We Know accompaniment in letter notes

The F – Gm – Am – Dm loop with open sky in the left hand and hopscotch bells in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
F
RF5 A4+C5 A4+C5
LF2 C3 A3
Bar 2
Gm
RG5 Bb4+D5 Bb4+D5
LG2 D3 Bb3
Bar 3
Am
RA4 C4+E4 C4+E4
LA2 E3 C4
Bar 4
Dm
RD5 F4+A4 F4 A4 D5 F5 A5 D6 F6 A6
LD2 A2 F3
Bar 5
F
RF5 A4+C5 A4+C5
LF2 C3 A3
Bar 6
Gm
RG5 Bb4+D5 Bb4+D5
LG2 D3 Bb3
Bar 7
Am
RA4 C4+E4 C4+E4
LA2 E3 C4
Bar 8
Dm
RD5 F4+A4 F4+A4
LD2 A2 F3

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 Little We Know

What are the letter notes for the How Little We Know 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 F – Gm – Am – Dm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in How Little We Know?

The loop is F – Gm – Am – Dm (I – ii – iii – vi) in F major, and the song ends on F – C7 – F.

What key is How Little We Know in?

F major, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in How Little We Know?

Open sky: open arpeggio 1-5-10, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is How Little We Know 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.