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I Get Ideas: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Julio C. Sanders
- C major
- 2/2
- 96 BPM
- 1951
- 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 Get Ideas without reading music. The left hand plays pausing footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 3) and the right hand catch-up chords.
I Get Ideas accompaniment in letter notes
The F – Dm – C – D#dim loop with pausing footsteps in the left hand and catch-up 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 Get Ideas
What are the letter notes for the I Get Ideas 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 – Dm – C – D#dim, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in I Get Ideas?
The loop is F – Dm – C – D#dim (IV – ii – I – biiio) in C major, and the song ends on C – G7 – C.
What key is I Get Ideas in?
C major, at about 96 beats a minute in 2/2.
What does the left hand play in I Get Ideas?
Pausing footsteps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 3, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is I Get Ideas 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.