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Live By The Hook: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Eliot Kennedy

  • Bb minor
  • 4/4
  • 70 BPM
  • Easy
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Left hand Patient seesawRight hand Skip-and-stroll chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

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 Live By The Hook without reading music. The left hand plays patient seesaw (root–fifth 1-1-1-5) and the right hand skip-and-stroll chords.

Live By The Hook accompaniment in letter notes

The Bbm – Db – Absus4 – Fm loop with patient seesaw in the left hand and skip-and-stroll chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Bbm
RF4+Ab4+Bb4 F4+Ab4+Bb4 F4+Ab4+Bb4 F4+Ab4+Bb4 F4+Ab4+Bb4
LBb2 Bb2 Bb2 F3
Bar 2
Db
RAb4+Db5 Ab4+Db5 Ab4+Db5 Ab4+Db5 Ab4+Db5
LDb3 Db3 Db3 Ab3
Bar 3
Absus4
REb5+Ab5 Eb5+Ab5 Eb5+Ab5 Eb5+Ab5 Eb5+Ab5
LAb2 Ab2 Ab2 Eb3
Bar 4
Fm
RC5+Eb5+F5 C5+Eb5+F5 C5+Eb5+F5 Gb6 F6 Eb6 Db6 C6 Bb5 Ab5 Gb5
LF2 F2 F2 C3
Bar 5
Bbm
RF4+Ab4+Bb4 F4+Ab4+Bb4 F4+Ab4+Bb4 F4+Ab4+Bb4 F4+Ab4+Bb4
LBb2 Bb2 Bb2 F3
Bar 6
Db
RAb4+Db5 Ab4+Db5 Ab4+Db5 Ab4+Db5 Ab4+Db5
LDb3 Db3 Db3 Ab3
Bar 7
Absus4
REb5+Ab5 Eb5+Ab5 Eb5+Ab5 Eb5+Ab5 Eb5+Ab5
LAb2 Ab2 Ab2 Eb3
Bar 8
Fm
RC5+Eb5+F5 C5+Eb5+F5 C5+Eb5+F5 C5+Eb5+F5 C5+Eb5+F5
LF2 F2 F2 C3

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 Live By The Hook

What are the letter notes for the Live By The Hook 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 Bbm – Db – Absus4 – Fm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Live By The Hook?

The loop is Bbm – Db – Absus4 – Fm (i – bIII – bVIIsus – v) in Bb minor, and the song ends on Gb – Ab – Bbm.

What key is Live By The Hook in?

Bb minor, at about 70 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Live By The Hook?

Patient seesaw: root–fifth 1-1-1-5, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Live By The Hook 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 one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.