Piano chords · Dreamy ballad
One Day I’ll Fly Away: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Will Jennings & Joe Sample
- B major
- 4/4
- 90 BPM
- 1980
- 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 One Day I’ll Fly Away without reading music. The left hand plays gentle rocking (broken chord 1-5-8-5) and the right hand pumping chords.
One Day I’ll Fly Away accompaniment in letter notes
The B – Em – B – C#m loop with gentle rocking 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 One Day I’ll Fly Away
What are the letter notes for the One Day I’ll Fly Away 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 B – Em – B – C#m, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in One Day I’ll Fly Away?
The loop is B – Em – B – C#m (I – iv – I – ii) in B major, and the song ends on B – Em – B.
What key is One Day I’ll Fly Away in?
B major, at about 90 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in One Day I’ll Fly Away?
Gentle rocking: broken chord 1-5-8-5, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is One Day I’ll Fly Away 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.