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Look Around: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Anthony Kiedis, Flea & others

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Left hand Engine 8thsThe right hand sings the tuneChords the loop the song repeats most

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 Look Around without reading music. The left hand plays engine 8ths (root bass · 8ths), and the right hand sings the tune.

Look Around accompaniment in letter notes

The Eb – Gm – Eb – Gm loop with engine 8ths in the left hand. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 2
Gm
RG4+Bb4+D5
LG2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2
Bar 3
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 4
Gm
RG4+Bb4+D5 Bb6 G6 D6 Bb5 G5 F#5 F5 E5
LG2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2
Bar 5
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 6
Gm
RG4+Bb4+D5
LG2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2
Bar 7
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 8
Gm
RG4+Bb4+D5
LG2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2

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 Look Around

What are the letter notes for the Look Around 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 Eb – Gm – Eb – Gm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Look Around?

The loop is Eb – Gm – Eb – Gm (bVI – i – bVI – i) in G minor, and the song ends on Eb – F – Gm.

What key is Look Around in?

G minor, at about 114 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Look Around?

Engine 8ths: root bass · 8ths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Look Around 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.