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Leave Your Lover: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Sam Smith
- E major
- 4/4
- 70 BPM
- 2014
- Easy
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 Leave Your Lover without reading music. The left hand plays rush-and-step pulse (root bass · 1 · 1a · 2& · 4) and the right hand swing push.
Leave Your Lover accompaniment in letter notes
The E – B – A – F#m loop with rush-and-step pulse in the left hand and swing push 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 Leave Your Lover
What are the letter notes for the Leave Your Lover 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 E – B – A – F#m, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Leave Your Lover?
The loop is E – B – A – F#m (I – V – IV – ii) in E major, and the song ends on A – B – E.
What key is Leave Your Lover in?
E major, at about 70 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Leave Your Lover?
Rush-and-step pulse: root bass · 1 · 1a · 2& · 4, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Leave Your Lover easy to play on piano?
Yes. Both hands play easy patterns over 4 chords. Learn the chords first, then add one hand at a time.
Made from 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.