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Nobody Knows: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Alecia Moore & Billy Mann

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Left hand Tick-tick-boom pulseRight hand Hopscotch bellsChords the loop the song repeats most

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 Nobody Knows without reading music. The left hand plays tick-tick-boom pulse (root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4) and the right hand hopscotch bells.

Nobody Knows accompaniment in letter notes

The C – Fm – C – Fm loop with tick-tick-boom pulse in the left hand and hopscotch bells in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
C
RC5 E4+G4 E4+G4
LC3 C3 C4 C3 C3 C4
Bar 2
Fm
RF5 Ab4+C5 Ab4+C5
LF2 F2 F3 F2 F2 F3
Bar 3
C
RC5 E4+G4 E4+G4
LC3 C3 C4 C3 C3 C4
Bar 4
Fm
RF5 Ab4+C5 D4 E4 F4 G4 A4 B4 C5 D5
LF2 F2 F3 F2 F2 F3
Bar 5
C
RC5 E4+G4 E4+G4
LC3 C3 C4 C3 C3 C4
Bar 6
Fm
RF5 Ab4+C5 Ab4+C5
LF2 F2 F3 F2 F2 F3
Bar 7
C
RC5 E4+G4 E4+G4
LC3 C3 C4 C3 C3 C4
Bar 8
Fm
RF5 Ab4+C5 Ab4+C5
LF2 F2 F3 F2 F2 F3

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 Nobody Knows

What are the letter notes for the Nobody Knows 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 – Fm – C – Fm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Nobody Knows?

The loop is C – Fm – C – Fm (I – iv – I – iv) in C major, and the song ends on C – Fm – C.

What key is Nobody Knows in?

C major, at about 68 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Nobody Knows?

Tick-tick-boom pulse: root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Nobody Knows 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.