Piano chords · Pop heartbeat
Keep The Candle Burning: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Jeff Borders, Gayla Borders & others
- D major
- 4/4
- 80 BPM
- I–IV–bVII–I loop
- 1995
- 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 Keep The Candle Burning without reading music. The left hand plays tick-tick-boom pulse (root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4), and the right hand sings the tune.
Keep The Candle Burning accompaniment in letter notes
The D – G – C – D loop with tick-tick-boom pulse in the left hand. 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.
Play next
Questions about Keep The Candle Burning
What are the letter notes for the Keep The Candle Burning 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 D – G – C – D, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Keep The Candle Burning?
The loop is D – G – C – D (I – IV – bVII – I) in D major, and the song ends on G – A – D.
What key is Keep The Candle Burning in?
D major, at about 80 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Keep The Candle Burning?
Tick-tick-boom pulse: root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Keep The Candle Burning 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.