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Let Me Be Good To You: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Carla Thomas
- Bb major
- 4/4
- 100 BPM
- 1966
- 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 Let Me Be Good To You without reading music. The left hand plays double-skip footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 2& · 3 · 4 · 4&) and the right hand pony-trot chords.
Let Me Be Good To You accompaniment in letter notes
The Ab – Db – Ab7 – Db loop with double-skip footsteps in the left hand and pony-trot chords 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 Let Me Be Good To You
What are the letter notes for the Let Me Be Good To You 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 Ab – Db – Ab7 – Db, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Let Me Be Good To You?
The loop is Ab – Db – Ab7 – Db (bVII – bIII – bVII7 – bIII) in Bb major, and the song ends on Eb – F – Bb.
What key is Let Me Be Good To You in?
Bb major, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Let Me Be Good To You?
Double-skip footsteps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 2& · 3 · 4 · 4&, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Let Me Be Good To You 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.