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I Need Some Sleep: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Eels
- A minor
- 4/4
- 90 BPM
- Medium
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 Need Some Sleep without reading music. The left hand plays power fifths (lh power fifths), and the right hand sings the tune.
I Need Some Sleep accompaniment in letter notes
The Am – Em – F – C loop with power fifths 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 I Need Some Sleep
What are the letter notes for the I Need Some Sleep 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 Am – Em – F – C, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in I Need Some Sleep?
The loop is Am – Em – F – C (i – v – bVI – bIII) in A minor, and the song ends on F – G – Am.
What key is I Need Some Sleep in?
A minor, at about 90 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in I Need Some Sleep?
Power fifths: lh power fifths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is I Need Some Sleep 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 one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.