Piano chords · Bossa beach
I Only Want To Say: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Bb minor
- 4/4
- 160 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 Only Want To Say without reading music. The left hand plays bossa sway (root bass · bossa (1 · 2& · 3 · 4&)) and the right hand pumping chords.
I Only Want To Say accompaniment in letter notes
The Bbm – Ab – Gb – F loop with bossa sway in the left hand and pumping 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 Only Want To Say
What are the letter notes for the I Only Want To Say 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 Bbm – Ab – Gb – F, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in I Only Want To Say?
The loop is Bbm – Ab – Gb – F (i – bVII – bVI – V) in Bb minor, and the song ends on Gb – Ab – Bbm.
What key is I Only Want To Say in?
Bb minor, at about 160 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in I Only Want To Say?
Bossa sway: root bass · bossa (1 · 2& · 3 · 4&), an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is I Only Want To Say 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 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.