Piano chords · Bossa beach
If I Told You Now: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
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- D major
- 4/4
- 80 BPM
- Easy
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 I Told You Now without reading music. The left hand plays bossa sway (root bass · bossa (1 · 2& · 3 · 4&)) and the right hand steady chords.
If I Told You Now accompaniment in letter notes
The A7 – D – A#dim – Bm loop with bossa sway in the left hand and steady chords 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 I Told You Now
What are the letter notes for the If I Told You Now 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 A7 – D – A#dim – Bm, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in If I Told You Now?
The loop is A7 – D – A#dim – Bm (V7 – I – bvio – vi) in D major, and the song ends on G – A – D.
What key is If I Told You Now in?
D major, at about 80 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in If I Told You Now?
Bossa sway: root bass · bossa (1 · 2& · 3 · 4&), an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is If I Told You Now 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.