Piano chords · Old-time stride
If He Walked Into My Life: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Jerry Herman
- F major
- 4/4
- 60 BPM
- 1966
- Easy
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 If He Walked Into My Life without reading music. The left hand plays stride jumps (stride) and the right hand hopscotch bells.
If He Walked Into My Life accompaniment in letter notes
The Eb7 – Am – G#dim – Gm loop with stride jumps 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 If He Walked Into My Life
What are the letter notes for the If He Walked Into My Life 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 Eb7 – Am – G#dim – Gm, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in If He Walked Into My Life?
The loop is Eb7 – Am – G#dim – Gm (bVII7 – iii – biiio – ii) in F major, and the song ends on Bb – C – F.
What key is If He Walked Into My Life in?
F major, at about 60 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in If He Walked Into My Life?
Stride jumps: stride, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is If He Walked Into My Life 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 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.