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I Really Like You: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Carly Rae Jepsen

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Left hand Hopscotch stepsRight hand Ticking clockChords the loop the song repeats most

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 Really Like You without reading music. The left hand plays hopscotch steps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 4) and the right hand ticking clock.

I Really Like You accompaniment in letter notes

The Bb – F – C – Dm loop with hopscotch steps in the left hand and ticking clock in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Bb
RD4+F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4
LBb2 Bb3 Bb3
Bar 2
F
RA4+C5 C5 C5 C5 C5 C5 C5
LF2 F3 F3
Bar 3
C
RE4+G4 G4 G4 G4 G4 G4 G4
LC3 C4 C4
Bar 4
Dm
RF4+A4 A4 A4 E4 F4 G4 A4 Bb4 C5 D5 E5
LD2 D3 D3
Bar 5
Bb
RD4+F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4
LBb2 Bb3 Bb3
Bar 6
F
RA4+C5 C5 C5 C5 C5 C5 C5
LF2 F3 F3
Bar 7
C
RE4+G4 G4 G4 G4 G4 G4 G4
LC3 C4 C4
Bar 8
Dm
RF4+A4 A4 A4 A4 A4 A4 A4
LD2 D3 D3

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 Really Like You

What are the letter notes for the I Really Like 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 Bb – F – C – Dm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in I Really Like You?

The loop is Bb – F – C – Dm (IV – I – V – vi) in F major, and the song ends on Bb – C – F.

What key is I Really Like You in?

F major, at about 122 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in I Really Like You?

Hopscotch steps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 4, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is I Really Like You 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.