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Rainbow High (from Evita): easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Left hand CarouselThe right hand sings the tuneChords the loop the song repeats most

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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 Rainbow High (from Evita) without reading music. The left hand plays carousel (waltz 6/8 oom-pah), and the right hand sings the tune.

Rainbow High (from Evita) accompaniment in letter notes

The Bbm – Fm – Bbm – Fm loop with carousel in the left hand. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Bbm
RBb3+Db4+F4
LBb3 Db4+F4 Db4+F4 F3 Db4+F4 Db4+F4
Bar 2
Fm
RF4+Ab4+C5
LF3 Ab3+C4 Ab3+C4 C3 Ab3+C4 Ab3+C4
Bar 3
Bbm
RBb3+Db4+F4
LBb3 Db4+F4 Db4+F4 F3 Db4+F4 Db4+F4
Bar 4
Fm
RF4+Ab4+C5 F4 Ab4 C5 F5 Ab5 C6
LF3 Ab3+C4 Ab3+C4 C3 Ab3+C4 Ab3+C4
Bar 5
Bbm
RBb3+Db4+F4
LBb3 Db4+F4 Db4+F4 F3 Db4+F4 Db4+F4
Bar 6
Fm
RF4+Ab4+C5
LF3 Ab3+C4 Ab3+C4 C3 Ab3+C4 Ab3+C4
Bar 7
Bbm
RBb3+Db4+F4
LBb3 Db4+F4 Db4+F4 F3 Db4+F4 Db4+F4
Bar 8
Fm
RF4+Ab4+C5
LF3 Ab3+C4 Ab3+C4 C3 Ab3+C4 Ab3+C4

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 Rainbow High (from Evita)

What are the letter notes for the Rainbow High (from Evita) 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 Bbm – Fm – Bbm – Fm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Rainbow High (from Evita)?

The loop is Bbm – Fm – Bbm – Fm (i – v – i – v) in Bb minor, and the song ends on Gb – Ab – Bbm.

What key is Rainbow High (from Evita) in?

Bb minor, at about 90 beats a minute in 3/4.

What does the left hand play in Rainbow High (from Evita)?

Carousel: waltz 6/8 oom-pah, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Rainbow High (from Evita) 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.