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Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning: piano accompaniment sheet music

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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Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning written out as piano music: the I – IV – I – vi loop in G major for both hands, with chord names and finger numbers. Press play and follow the cursor. 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 chord chart

The loop once round, bar by bar, in G major. The roman numeral says the chord's place in the key, so the same chart works in any key.

BarChordNumeralNotes
1GIG B D
2CIVC E G
3GIG B D
4EmviE G B

What the sheet music shows

The grand staff: the right hand on the treble staff, the left hand on the bass staff, with the chord names above and a finger number on each note (1 is the thumb). It is the accompaniment: swelling 6/8 (open arpeggio 1-5-8-10-8-5 (6/8)) in the left hand, with the right hand free for the melody, over the G – C – G – Em chords.

Press play and a cursor follows the music. Above it, Colours paints each note in its key’s colour and Note names writes its letter on its head.

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Questions about Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning

Does the sheet music for Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning have finger numbers?

Yes: every note of both hands has its finger number, 1 being the thumb. To read the notes alone, turn Fingers off above the music.

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.