Piano chords · Dreamy ballad
Never Gonna Let You Go: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
- F# minor
- 2/2
- 100 BPM
- i–iv–bVII–bIII loop
- 1982
- 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 Never Gonna Let You Go without reading music. The left hand plays dreamy wave (open arpeggio 1-5-9-10) and the right hand ticking clock.
Never Gonna Let You Go accompaniment in letter notes
The F#m – Bm – E – A loop with dreamy wave in the left hand and ticking clock 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 Never Gonna Let You Go
What are the letter notes for the Never Gonna Let You Go 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 F#m – Bm – E – A, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Never Gonna Let You Go?
The loop is F#m – Bm – E – A (i – iv – bVII – bIII) in F# minor, and the song ends on B – C# – F#.
What key is Never Gonna Let You Go in?
F# minor, at about 100 beats a minute in 2/2.
What does the left hand play in Never Gonna Let You Go?
Dreamy wave: open arpeggio 1-5-9-10, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Never Gonna Let You Go 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.