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Please Tell Rosie: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Alle Farben

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Left hand Heartbeat octavesRight hand Freeze-tag chordsChords 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 Please Tell Rosie without reading music. The left hand plays heartbeat octaves (rocking octaves) and the right hand freeze-tag chords.

Please Tell Rosie accompaniment in letter notes

The Cm – Bb – Cm – Bb loop with heartbeat octaves in the left hand and freeze-tag chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Cm
REb4+G4+C5 Eb4+G4+C5 Eb4+G4+C5
LC3 C4 C3 C4 C3 C4 C3 C4
Bar 2
Bb
RD4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4
LBb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb3
Bar 3
Cm
REb4+G4+C5 Eb4+G4+C5 Eb4+G4+C5
LC3 C4 C3 C4 C3 C4 C3 C4
Bar 4
Bb
RD4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 Bb6 F6 D6 Bb5 G5 Gb5 F5 E5
LBb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb3
Bar 5
Cm
REb4+G4+C5 Eb4+G4+C5 Eb4+G4+C5
LC3 C4 C3 C4 C3 C4 C3 C4
Bar 6
Bb
RD4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4
LBb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb3
Bar 7
Cm
REb4+G4+C5 Eb4+G4+C5 Eb4+G4+C5
LC3 C4 C3 C4 C3 C4 C3 C4
Bar 8
Bb
RD4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4
LBb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb3 Bb2 Bb3

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 Please Tell Rosie

What are the letter notes for the Please Tell Rosie 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 Cm – Bb – Cm – Bb, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Please Tell Rosie?

The loop is Cm – Bb – Cm – Bb (vi – V – vi – V) in Eb major, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Eb.

What key is Please Tell Rosie in?

Eb major, at about 120 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Please Tell Rosie?

Heartbeat octaves: rocking octaves, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Please Tell Rosie easy to play on piano?

Yes. Both hands play easy patterns over 4 chords. Learn the chords first, then add one hand at a time.

Made from one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.