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How Soon Is Now?: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By The Smiths
- F major
- 4/4
- 94 BPM
- 1984
- Easy
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 Soon Is Now? without reading music. The left hand plays hurry-and-wait pulse (root bass · 1 · 1a · 2&), and the right hand sings the tune.
How Soon Is Now? accompaniment in letter notes
The Ab – Bb – F – Ab loop with hurry-and-wait pulse in the left hand. 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 Soon Is Now?
What are the letter notes for the How Soon Is Now? 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 Ab – Bb – F – Ab, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in How Soon Is Now??
The loop is Ab – Bb – F – Ab (bIII5 – IV5 – I – bIII5) in F major, and the song ends on Bb – C – F.
What key is How Soon Is Now? in?
F major, at about 94 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in How Soon Is Now??
Hurry-and-wait pulse: root bass · 1 · 1a · 2&, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is How Soon Is Now? easy to play on piano?
Yes. Both hands play easy patterns over 4 chords. Learn the chords first, then add one hand at a time.
Made from 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.