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It Won’t Be Long: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
- G major
- 4/4
- 138 BPM
- 1963
- Medium
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 Won’t Be Long without reading music. The left hand plays engine 8ths (root bass · 8ths) and the right hand pop stabs.
It Won’t Be Long accompaniment in letter notes
The G – Eb – G – Eb loop with engine 8ths in the left hand and pop stabs 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 It Won’t Be Long
What are the letter notes for the It Won’t Be Long 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 G – Eb – G – Eb, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in It Won’t Be Long?
The loop is G – Eb – G – Eb (I – bVI – I – bVI) in G major, and the song ends on C – D – G.
What key is It Won’t Be Long in?
G major, at about 138 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in It Won’t Be Long?
Engine 8ths: root bass · 8ths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is It Won’t Be Long 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.