Pray For Me: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By The Weeknd with Kendrick Lamar

E minor
4/4
85 BPM
2018
Medium

Tuning the piano…

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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 Pray For Me without reading music. The left hand plays galloping heartbeat (root bass · 1 · 1a · 2 · 3 · 3a · 4) and the right hand ticking clock.

Pray For Me accompaniment in letter notes

The Em – D – Am – C loop with galloping heartbeat in the left hand and ticking clock in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
EmRE4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4
LE2 E2 E2 E2 E2 E2

Bar 2
DRD4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4
LD2 D2 D2 D2 D2 D2

Bar 3
AmRA3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3
LA2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2

Bar 4
CRC4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 D4 E4 F#4 G4 A4 B4 C5 D5
LC3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3

Bar 5
EmRE4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4 E4
LE2 E2 E2 E2 E2 E2

Bar 6
DRD4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4 D4
LD2 D2 D2 D2 D2 D2

Bar 7
AmRA3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3
LA2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2

Bar 8
CRC4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4
LC3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3

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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The same left hand: Galloping heartbeat

About this pattern

Questions about Pray For Me

What are the letter notes for the Pray For 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 Em – D – Am – C, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Pray For Me?

The loop is Em – D – Am – C (i – bVII – iv – bVI) in E minor, and the song ends on C – D – Em.

What key is Pray For Me in?

E minor, at about 85 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Pray For Me?

Galloping heartbeat: root bass · 1 · 1a · 2 · 3 · 3a · 4, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Pray For 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.