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I Wanna Do It All: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Tim Nichols Rick Giles & Gilles Goddard

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Left hand Hurrying footstepsRight hand Push chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

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 Wanna Do It All without reading music. The left hand plays hurrying footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 3 · 3& · 4 · 4&) and the right hand push chords.

I Wanna Do It All accompaniment in letter notes

The B – E – B – E loop with hurrying footsteps in the left hand and push chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
B
RD#4+F#4+B4 D#4+F#4+B4 D#4+F#4+B4
LB2 B3 B2 B2 B3 B2
Bar 2
E
RG#4+B4+E5 G#4+B4+E5 G#4+B4+E5
LE2 E3 E2 E2 E3 E2
Bar 3
B
RD#4+F#4+B4 D#4+F#4+B4 D#4+F#4+B4
LB2 B3 B2 B2 B3 B2
Bar 4
E
RG#4+B4+E5 G#4+B4+E5 G#4+B4+E5 C#4 D#4 E4 F#4 G#4 A4 B4 C#5
LE2 E3 E2 E2 E3 E2
Bar 5
B
RD#4+F#4+B4 D#4+F#4+B4 D#4+F#4+B4
LB2 B3 B2 B2 B3 B2
Bar 6
E
RG#4+B4+E5 G#4+B4+E5 G#4+B4+E5
LE2 E3 E2 E2 E3 E2
Bar 7
B
RD#4+F#4+B4 D#4+F#4+B4 D#4+F#4+B4
LB2 B3 B2 B2 B3 B2
Bar 8
E
RG#4+B4+E5 G#4+B4+E5 G#4+B4+E5
LE2 E3 E2 E2 E3 E2

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 Wanna Do It All

What are the letter notes for the I Wanna Do It All 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 B – E – B – E, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in I Wanna Do It All?

The loop is B – E – B – E (V – I – V – I) in E major, and the song ends on E – B – E.

What key is I Wanna Do It All in?

E major, at about 120 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in I Wanna Do It All?

Hurrying footsteps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 3 · 3& · 4 · 4&, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is I Wanna Do It All 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.