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I Can’t Make You Love Me: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Bonnie Raitt
- Bb major
- 4/4
- 90 BPM
- 1991
- Easy
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 Can’t Make You Love Me without reading music. The left hand plays hurry-and-wait pulse (root bass · 1 · 1a · 2&) and the right hand freeze-tag chords.
I Can’t Make You Love Me accompaniment in letter notes
The Eb – Gm – Eb – Bb loop with hurry-and-wait pulse in the left hand and freeze-tag chords 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 Can’t Make You Love Me
What are the letter notes for the I Can’t Make You Love Me 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 Eb – Gm – Eb – Bb, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in I Can’t Make You Love Me?
The loop is Eb – Gm – Eb – Bb (IV – vi – IV – I) in Bb major, and the song ends on Eb – F – Bb.
What key is I Can’t Make You Love Me in?
Bb major, at about 90 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in I Can’t Make You Love Me?
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 I Can’t Make You Love Me 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 3 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.