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Looks Like Rain: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- E major
- 4/4
- 70 BPM
- 1972
- 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 Looks Like Rain without reading music. The left hand plays groovy roots (root bass · syncopated 8ths) and the right hand steady chords.
Looks Like Rain accompaniment in letter notes
The E – D – A – F#m loop with groovy roots in the left hand and steady 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 Looks Like Rain
What are the letter notes for the Looks Like Rain 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 – D – A – F#m, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Looks Like Rain?
The loop is E – D – A – F#m (I – bVII – IV – ii) in E major, and the song ends on A – B – E.
What key is Looks Like Rain in?
E major, at about 70 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Looks Like Rain?
Groovy roots: root bass · syncopated 8ths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Looks Like Rain 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.