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Lady Lay Down: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By John Conlee
- D major
- 3/4
- 100 BPM
- 1978
- Medium
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 Lady Lay Down without reading music. The left hand plays oom-pah-pah (waltz oom-pah-pah) and the right hand chattering waltz.
Lady Lay Down accompaniment in letter notes
The A – D – F#m – G loop with oom-pah-pah in the left hand and chattering waltz 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.
Questions about Lady Lay Down
What are the letter notes for the Lady Lay Down 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 – F#m – G, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Lady Lay Down?
The loop is A – D – F#m – G (V – I – iii – IV) in D major, and the song ends on G – A – D.
What key is Lady Lay Down in?
D major, at about 100 beats a minute in 3/4.
What does the left hand play in Lady Lay Down?
Oom-pah-pah: waltz oom-pah-pah, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Lady Lay Down 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.