Keep Your Hands To Yourself: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

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A major
4/4
127 BPM
Medium

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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 Your Hands To Yourself without reading music. The left hand plays rock’n’roll rocker (rock’n’roll 5–6 shuffle) and the right hand pony-trot chords.

Keep Your Hands To Yourself accompaniment in letter notes

The A – D – A – E loop with rock’n’roll rocker in the left hand and pony-trot chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
ARC#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4
LA2+E3 A2+E3 A2+F#3 A2+F#3 A2+E3 A2+E3 A2+F#3 A2+F#3

Bar 2
DRF#4+A4+C5+D5 F#4+A4+C5+D5 F#4+A4+C5+D5 F#4+A4+C5+D5 F#4+A4+C5+D5 F#4+A4+C5+D5
LD2+A2 D2+A2 D2+B2 D2+B2 D2+A2 D2+A2 D2+B2 D2+B2

Bar 3
ARC#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4
LA2+E3 A2+E3 A2+F#3 A2+F#3 A2+E3 A2+E3 A2+F#3 A2+F#3

Bar 4
ERG#4+B4+D5+E5 G#4+B4+D5+E5 G#4+B4+D5+E5 G#4+B4+D5+E5 G4 G#4 B4 C#5 B4 G#4 G4 E4
LE2+B2 E2+B2 E2+C#3 E2+C#3 E2+B2 E2+B2 E2+C#3 E2+C#3

Bar 5
ARC#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4
LA2+E3 A2+E3 A2+F#3 A2+F#3 A2+E3 A2+E3 A2+F#3 A2+F#3

Bar 6
DRF#4+A4+C5+D5 F#4+A4+C5+D5 F#4+A4+C5+D5 F#4+A4+C5+D5 F#4+A4+C5+D5 F#4+A4+C5+D5
LD2+A2 D2+A2 D2+B2 D2+B2 D2+A2 D2+A2 D2+B2 D2+B2

Bar 7
ARC#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4 C#4+E4+G4+A4
LA2+E3 A2+E3 A2+F#3 A2+F#3 A2+E3 A2+E3 A2+F#3 A2+F#3

Bar 8
ERG#4+B4+D5+E5 G#4+B4+D5+E5 G#4+B4+D5+E5 G#4+B4+D5+E5 G#4+B4+D5+E5 G#4+B4+D5+E5
LE2+B2 E2+B2 E2+C#3 E2+C#3 E2+B2 E2+B2 E2+C#3 E2+C#3

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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The same left hand: Rock’n’roll rocker

About this pattern

Questions about Keep Your Hands To Yourself

What are the letter notes for the Keep Your Hands To Yourself 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 A – D – A – E, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Keep Your Hands To Yourself?

The loop is A – D – A – E (I5 – IV5 – I5 – V5) in A major, and the song ends on D – E – A.

What key is Keep Your Hands To Yourself in?

A major, at about 127 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Keep Your Hands To Yourself?

Rock’n’roll rocker: rock’n’roll 5–6 shuffle, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Keep Your Hands To Yourself 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.