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I Could Be Happy With You: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Sandy Wilson

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Left hand Pop heartbeatThe right hand sings the tuneChords the loop the song repeats most

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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 Could Be Happy With You without reading music. The left hand plays pop heartbeat (root bass · charleston push (1 · 2& · 3)), and the right hand sings the tune.

I Could Be Happy With You accompaniment in letter notes

The Fm – Bb7 – Eb – Fm loop with pop heartbeat in the left hand. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Fm
RF4+Ab4+C5
LF2 F2 F2
Bar 2
Bb7
RBb3+D4+F4
LBb2 Bb2 Bb2
Bar 3
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 4
Fm
RF4+Ab4+C5 Eb4 F4 G4 Ab4 Bb4 C5 D5 Eb5
LF2 F2 F2
Bar 5
Fm
RF4+Ab4+C5
LF2 F2 F2
Bar 6
Bb7
RBb3+D4+F4
LBb2 Bb2 Bb2
Bar 7
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 8
Fm
RF4+Ab4+C5
LF2 F2 F2

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 Could Be Happy With You

What are the letter notes for the I Could Be Happy With You 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 Fm – Bb7 – Eb – Fm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in I Could Be Happy With You?

The loop is Fm – Bb7 – Eb – Fm (ii – V7 – I – ii) in Eb major, and the song ends on Fm – Bb7 – Eb.

What key is I Could Be Happy With You in?

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

What does the left hand play in I Could Be Happy With You?

Pop heartbeat: root bass · charleston push (1 · 2& · 3), an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is I Could Be Happy With You 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 one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.