Keep Your Mind Wide Open: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By AnnaSophia Robb

A major
6/8
84 BPM
vi–IV–I–vi loop
Medium

Tuning the piano…

Learn it

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 Mind Wide Open without reading music. The left hand plays rowing-boat pulse (root bass · 6/8 8ths) and the right hand tug-of-war chords.

Keep Your Mind Wide Open accompaniment in letter notes

The F#m – D – A – F#m loop with rowing-boat pulse in the left hand and tug-of-war chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
F#mRA4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5
LF#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2

Bar 2
DRF#4+A4+D5 F#4+A4+D5 F#4+A4+D5 F#4+A4+D5
LD2 D2 D2 D2 D2 D2

Bar 3
ARC#4+E4+A4 C#4+E4+A4 C#4+E4+A4 C#4+E4+A4
LA2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2

Bar 4
F#mRA4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5 F#4 A4 C#5 F#5 A5 C#6
LF#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2

Bar 5
F#mRA4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5
LF#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2

Bar 6
DRF#4+A4+D5 F#4+A4+D5 F#4+A4+D5 F#4+A4+D5
LD2 D2 D2 D2 D2 D2

Bar 7
ARC#4+E4+A4 C#4+E4+A4 C#4+E4+A4 C#4+E4+A4
LA2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2

Bar 8
F#mRA4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5
LF#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2

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

The same vi–IV–I–vi loop

About this progression

The same left hand: Rowing-boat pulse

About this pattern

Questions about Keep Your Mind Wide Open

What are the letter notes for the Keep Your Mind Wide Open 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 F#m – D – A – F#m, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Keep Your Mind Wide Open?

The loop is F#m – D – A – F#m (vi – IV – I – vi) in A major, and the song ends on D – E – A.

What key is Keep Your Mind Wide Open in?

A major, at about 84 beats a minute in 6/8.

What does the left hand play in Keep Your Mind Wide Open?

Rowing-boat pulse: root bass · 6/8 8ths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Keep Your Mind Wide Open 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.