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OK, It’s Alright with Me: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
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- A minor
- 4/4
- 84 BPM
- 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 OK, It’s Alright with Me without reading music. The left hand plays hurry-and-wait pulse (root bass · 1 · 1a · 2&) and the right hand pumping chords.
OK, It’s Alright with Me accompaniment in letter notes
The Am – F#m – F – C loop with hurry-and-wait pulse in the left hand and pumping chords 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 OK, It’s Alright with Me
What are the letter notes for the OK, It’s Alright with Me 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 Am – F#m – F – C, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in OK, It’s Alright with Me?
The loop is Am – F#m – F – C (i – vi – bVI – bIII) in A minor, and the song ends on F – G – Am.
What key is OK, It’s Alright with Me in?
A minor, at about 84 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in OK, It’s Alright with Me?
Hurry-and-wait pulse: root bass · 1 · 1a · 2&, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is OK, It’s Alright with Me 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.