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It Starts With A Sketch (from Fantasyland Theatre at Disneyland Park): easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Alan Menken

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Left hand Swelling 6/8Right hand Cradle chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

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 It Starts With A Sketch (from Fantasyland Theatre at Disneyland Park) without reading music. The left hand plays swelling 6/8 (open arpeggio 1-5-8-10-8-5 (6/8)) and the right hand cradle chords.

It Starts With A Sketch (from Fantasyland Theatre at Disneyland Park) accompaniment in letter notes

The Ab – Eb7 – Ab – Eb7 loop with swelling 6/8 in the left hand and cradle chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5 Ab4+C5+Eb5 Ab4+C5+Eb5
LAb2 Eb3 Ab3 C4 Ab3 Eb3
Bar 2
Eb7
REb4+G4+Bb4 Eb4+G4+Bb4 Eb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Bb2 Eb3 G3 Eb3 Bb2
Bar 3
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5 Ab4+C5+Eb5 Ab4+C5+Eb5
LAb2 Eb3 Ab3 C4 Ab3 Eb3
Bar 4
Eb7
REb4+G4+Bb4 G4 Bb4 Db5 Eb5 G5 Bb5
LEb2 Bb2 Eb3 G3 Eb3 Bb2
Bar 5
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5 Ab4+C5+Eb5 Ab4+C5+Eb5
LAb2 Eb3 Ab3 C4 Ab3 Eb3
Bar 6
Eb7
REb4+G4+Bb4 Eb4+G4+Bb4 Eb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Bb2 Eb3 G3 Eb3 Bb2
Bar 7
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5 Ab4+C5+Eb5 Ab4+C5+Eb5
LAb2 Eb3 Ab3 C4 Ab3 Eb3
Bar 8
Eb7
REb4+G4+Bb4 Eb4+G4+Bb4 Eb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Bb2 Eb3 G3 Eb3 Bb2

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 Starts With A Sketch (from Fantasyland Theatre at Disneyland Park)

What are the letter notes for the It Starts With A Sketch (from Fantasyland Theatre at Disneyland Park) 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 Ab – Eb7 – Ab – Eb7, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in It Starts With A Sketch (from Fantasyland Theatre at Disneyland Park)?

The loop is Ab – Eb7 – Ab – Eb7 (I – V7 – I – V7) in Ab major, and the song ends on Db – Eb – Ab.

What key is It Starts With A Sketch (from Fantasyland Theatre at Disneyland Park) in?

Ab major, at about 98 beats a minute in 6/8.

What does the left hand play in It Starts With A Sketch (from Fantasyland Theatre at Disneyland Park)?

Swelling 6/8: open arpeggio 1-5-8-10-8-5 (6/8), a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is It Starts With A Sketch (from Fantasyland Theatre at Disneyland Park) 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.