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Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Take My Hand, Precious Lord): easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- Ab major
- 4/4
- 70 BPM
- 1938
- Medium
Play the full song with sheet music
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 Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Take My Hand, Precious Lord) without reading music. The left hand plays waltz stride (stride (3/4)) and the right hand sleepy waltz chords.
Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Take My Hand, Precious Lord) accompaniment in letter notes
The Ab – Ab7 – Db – Ddim loop with waltz stride in the left hand and sleepy waltz 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 Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Take My Hand, Precious Lord)
What are the letter notes for the Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Take My Hand, Precious Lord) 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 Ab – Ab7 – Db – Ddim, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Take My Hand, Precious Lord)?
The loop is Ab – Ab7 – Db – Ddim (I – I7 – IV – #ivo) in Ab major, and the song ends on Ab – Bbm – Ab.
What key is Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Take My Hand, Precious Lord) in?
Ab major, at about 70 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Take My Hand, Precious Lord)?
Waltz stride: stride (3/4), a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Take My Hand, Precious Lord) 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 4 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.