Piano chords · Old-time stride
Nancy With The Laughing Face: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Phil Silvers
- Eb major
- 4/4
- 125 BPM
- 1942
- 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 Nancy With The Laughing Face without reading music. The left hand plays stride jumps (stride) and the right hand firefly blink.
Nancy With The Laughing Face accompaniment in letter notes
The Eb7 – Db7 – Eb7 – Db7 loop with stride jumps in the left hand and firefly blink 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 Nancy With The Laughing Face
What are the letter notes for the Nancy With The Laughing Face 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 Eb7 – Db7 – Eb7 – Db7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Nancy With The Laughing Face?
The loop is Eb7 – Db7 – Eb7 – Db7 (I7 – bVII7 – I7 – bVII7) in Eb major, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Eb.
What key is Nancy With The Laughing Face in?
Eb major, at about 125 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Nancy With The Laughing Face?
Stride jumps: stride, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Nancy With The Laughing Face 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.