Piano chords · Old-time stride
Love Is Sweeping The Country: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
- Eb major
- 2/4
- 100 BPM
- 1931
- 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 Love Is Sweeping The Country without reading music. The left hand plays toy-soldier march (lh triads (2/4)) and the right hand polka-hop chords.
Love Is Sweeping The Country accompaniment in letter notes
The Bbdim – Bb7 – Bbdim – Bb7 loop with toy-soldier march in the left hand and polka-hop 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 Love Is Sweeping The Country
What are the letter notes for the Love Is Sweeping The Country 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 Bbdim – Bb7 – Bbdim – Bb7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Love Is Sweeping The Country?
The loop is Bbdim – Bb7 – Bbdim – Bb7 (vo – V7 – vo – V7) in Eb major, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Eb.
What key is Love Is Sweeping The Country in?
Eb major, at about 100 beats a minute in 2/4.
What does the left hand play in Love Is Sweeping The Country?
Toy-soldier march: lh triads (2/4), a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Love Is Sweeping The Country 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 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.