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I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- C major
- 2/2
- 116 BPM
- 1935
- 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 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter without reading music. The left hand plays lazy footsteps (root bass · 1 · 3 · 4) and the right hand hopscotch chords.
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter accompaniment in letter notes
The Dm – G7 – C – Cdim loop with lazy footsteps in the left hand and hopscotch 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 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
What are the letter notes for the I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter 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 Dm – G7 – C – Cdim, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter?
The loop is Dm – G7 – C – Cdim (ii – V7 – I – io) in C major, and the song ends on C – Dm – C.
What key is I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter in?
C major, at about 116 beats a minute in 2/2.
What does the left hand play in I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter?
Lazy footsteps: root bass · 1 · 3 · 4, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter 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.