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I Was Doing All Right: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- G major
- 2/2
- 100 BPM
- I–biio–ii–V7 loop
- 1937
- 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 Was Doing All Right without reading music. The left hand plays power fifths (lh power fifths) and the right hand hopscotch bells.
I Was Doing All Right accompaniment in letter notes
The G – G#dim – Am – D7 loop with power fifths in the left hand and hopscotch bells 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 Was Doing All Right
What are the letter notes for the I Was Doing All Right 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 G – G#dim – Am – D7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in I Was Doing All Right?
The loop is G – G#dim – Am – D7 (I – biio – ii – V7) in G major, and the song ends on C – D7 – G.
What key is I Was Doing All Right in?
G major, at about 100 beats a minute in 2/2.
What does the left hand play in I Was Doing All Right?
Power fifths: lh power fifths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is I Was Doing All Right 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.