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Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Irving Berlin

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Left hand Swelling 6/8The right hand sings the tuneChords the loop the song repeats most

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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 Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning without reading music. The left hand plays swelling 6/8 (open arpeggio 1-5-8-10-8-5 (6/8)), and the right hand sings the tune.

Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning accompaniment in letter notes

The G – C – G – Em loop with swelling 6/8 in the left hand. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
G
RG4+B4+D5
LG2 D3 G3 B3 G3 D3
Bar 2
C
RC4+E4+G4
LC3 G3 C4 E4 C4 G3
Bar 3
G
RG4+B4+D5
LG2 D3 G3 B3 G3 D3
Bar 4
Em
RE4+G4+B4 E4 G4 B4 E5 G5 B5
LE2 B2 E3 G3 E3 B2
Bar 5
G
RG4+B4+D5
LG2 D3 G3 B3 G3 D3
Bar 6
C
RC4+E4+G4
LC3 G3 C4 E4 C4 G3
Bar 7
G
RG4+B4+D5
LG2 D3 G3 B3 G3 D3
Bar 8
Em
RE4+G4+B4
LE2 B2 E3 G3 E3 B2

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 Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning

What are the letter notes for the Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning 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 G – C – G – Em, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning?

The loop is G – C – G – Em (I – IV – I – vi) in G major, and the song ends on G – D – G.

What key is Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning in?

G major, at about 96 beats a minute in 6/8.

What does the left hand play in Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning?

Swelling 6/8: open arpeggio 1-5-8-10-8-5 (6/8), a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning 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 3 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.