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If You Want To Die In Bed: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Claude-Michel Schönberg

  • F minor
  • 4/4
  • 120 BPM
  • Medium
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Left hand Power fifthsRight hand Pop stabsChords 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 If You Want To Die In Bed without reading music. The left hand plays power fifths (lh power fifths) and the right hand pop stabs.

If You Want To Die In Bed accompaniment in letter notes

The Fm – Ab – Bb7 – Fm loop with power fifths in the left hand and pop stabs in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Fm
RAb4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5
LF2 Ab2+C3 Ab2+C3 F2 Ab2+C3
Bar 2
Ab
RC5+Eb5+Ab5 C5+Eb5+Ab5 C5+Eb5+Ab5
LAb2 C3+Eb3 C3+Eb3 Ab2 C3+Eb3
Bar 3
Bb7
RD4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4
LBb2 D3+F3 D3+F3 Bb2 D3+F3
Bar 4
Fm
RAb4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5 C7 Ab6 F6 C6 A5 Ab5 G5 Gb5
LF2 Ab2+C3 Ab2+C3 F2 Ab2+C3
Bar 5
Fm
RAb4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5
LF2 Ab2+C3 Ab2+C3 F2 Ab2+C3
Bar 6
Ab
RC5+Eb5+Ab5 C5+Eb5+Ab5 C5+Eb5+Ab5
LAb2 C3+Eb3 C3+Eb3 Ab2 C3+Eb3
Bar 7
Bb7
RD4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4
LBb2 D3+F3 D3+F3 Bb2 D3+F3
Bar 8
Fm
RAb4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5
LF2 Ab2+C3 Ab2+C3 F2 Ab2+C3

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 You Want To Die In Bed

What are the letter notes for the If You Want To Die In Bed 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 Fm – Ab – Bb7 – Fm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in If You Want To Die In Bed?

The loop is Fm – Ab – Bb7 – Fm (i – bIII – IV7 – i) in F minor, and the song ends on Db – Eb – Fm.

What key is If You Want To Die In Bed in?

F minor, at about 120 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in If You Want To Die In Bed?

Power fifths: lh power fifths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is If You Want To Die In Bed 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.