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It Came Upon The Midnight Clear: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Christmas Carol

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Left hand Waltz strideRight hand Waltz chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

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 It Came Upon The Midnight Clear without reading music. The left hand plays waltz stride (stride (3/4)) and the right hand waltz chords.

It Came Upon The Midnight Clear accompaniment in letter notes

The Bb – Eb – Bb – Eb loop with waltz stride in the left hand and waltz chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Bb
RBb3+D4+F4 Bb3+D4+F4 Bb3+D4+F4
LBb2 F3+D4 Bb3
Bar 2
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4 Eb4+G4+Bb4 Eb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Bb2+G3 Eb3
Bar 3
Bb
RBb3+D4+F4 Bb3+D4+F4 Bb3+D4+F4
LBb2 F3+D4 Bb3
Bar 4
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4 G4 Bb4 Eb5 G5 Bb5 Eb6 G6 Bb6
LEb2 Bb2+G3 Eb3
Bar 5
Bb
RBb3+D4+F4 Bb3+D4+F4 Bb3+D4+F4
LBb2 F3+D4 Bb3
Bar 6
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4 Eb4+G4+Bb4 Eb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Bb2+G3 Eb3
Bar 7
Bb
RBb3+D4+F4 Bb3+D4+F4 Bb3+D4+F4
LBb2 F3+D4 Bb3
Bar 8
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4 Eb4+G4+Bb4 Eb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Bb2+G3 Eb3

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 It Came Upon The Midnight Clear

What are the letter notes for the It Came Upon The Midnight Clear 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 Bb – Eb – Bb – Eb, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in It Came Upon The Midnight Clear?

The loop is Bb – Eb – Bb – Eb (I – IV – I – IV) in Bb major, and the song ends on Eb – F – Bb.

What key is It Came Upon The Midnight Clear in?

Bb major, at about 110 beats a minute in 3/4.

What does the left hand play in It Came Upon The Midnight Clear?

Waltz stride: stride (3/4), a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is It Came Upon The Midnight Clear 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 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.