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I Am The Walrus: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By The Beatles
- A major
- 4/4
- 88 BPM
- 1967
- 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 I Am The Walrus without reading music. The left hand plays lub-dub heartbeat (root bass · 1 · 1& · 3 · 3&) and the right hand candle flicker.
I Am The Walrus accompaniment in letter notes
The A – G – C – D loop with lub-dub heartbeat in the left hand and candle flicker 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 I Am The Walrus
What are the letter notes for the I Am The Walrus 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 A – G – C – D, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in I Am The Walrus?
The loop is A – G – C – D (I – bVII – bIII – IV) in A major, and the song ends on D – E – A.
What key is I Am The Walrus in?
A major, at about 88 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in I Am The Walrus?
Lub-dub heartbeat: root bass · 1 · 1& · 3 · 3&, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is I Am The Walrus 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 3 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.