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Mad About The Boy: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Noel Coward
- C major
- 4/4
- 112 BPM
- 1932
- 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 Mad About The Boy without reading music. The left hand plays giant steps (lh chords) and the right hand pumping chords.
Mad About The Boy accompaniment in letter notes
The C – F#dim – G7 – C loop with giant steps in the left hand and pumping 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 Mad About The Boy
What are the letter notes for the Mad About The Boy 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 C – F#dim – G7 – C, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Mad About The Boy?
The loop is C – F#dim – G7 – C (I – #ivo – V7 – I) in C major, and the song ends on F – G – C.
What key is Mad About The Boy in?
C major, at about 112 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Mad About The Boy?
Giant steps: lh chords, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Mad About The Boy 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.