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I Want You Back/Abc/ The Love You Save: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Freddie Perren & Alphonso Mizell

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Left hand Walking rootsThe right hand sings the tuneChords the loop the song repeats most

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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 Want You Back/Abc/ The Love You Save without reading music. The left hand plays walking roots (root bass · quarters), and the right hand sings the tune.

I Want You Back/Abc/ The Love You Save accompaniment in letter notes

The Db – Ab – Db – Ab loop with walking roots in the left hand. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Db
RDb4+F4+Ab4
LDb3 Db3 Db4 Db4
Bar 2
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5
LAb2 Ab2 Ab3 Ab3
Bar 3
Db
RDb4+F4+Ab4
LDb3 Db3 Db4 Db4
Bar 4
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5 Eb4 F4 G4 Ab4 Bb4 C5 Db5 Eb5
LAb2 Ab2 Ab3 Ab3
Bar 5
Db
RDb4+F4+Ab4
LDb3 Db3 Db4 Db4
Bar 6
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5
LAb2 Ab2 Ab3 Ab3
Bar 7
Db
RDb4+F4+Ab4
LDb3 Db3 Db4 Db4
Bar 8
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5
LAb2 Ab2 Ab3 Ab3

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 Want You Back/Abc/ The Love You Save

What are the letter notes for the I Want You Back/Abc/ The Love You Save 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 Db – Ab – Db – Ab, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in I Want You Back/Abc/ The Love You Save?

The loop is Db – Ab – Db – Ab (IV – I – IV – I) in Ab major, and the song ends on Db – Eb – Ab.

What key is I Want You Back/Abc/ The Love You Save in?

Ab major, at about 90 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in I Want You Back/Abc/ The Love You Save?

Walking roots: root bass · quarters, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is I Want You Back/Abc/ The Love You Save 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.