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Ready For The Good Life: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Paloma Faith

  • Ab major
  • 4/4
  • 105 BPM
  • 2014
  • Medium
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Left hand Engine 8thsRight hand Pumping chordsChords 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 Ready For The Good Life without reading music. The left hand plays engine 8ths (root bass · 8ths) and the right hand pumping chords.

Ready For The Good Life accompaniment in letter notes

The Ab7 – Cb – Db – Ab7 loop with engine 8ths in the left hand and pumping chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Ab7
REb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6
LAb2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2
Bar 2
Cb
RGb4+Cb4+Eb5 Gb4+Cb4+Eb5 Gb4+Cb4+Eb5 Gb4+Cb4+Eb5 Gb4+Cb4+Eb5 Gb4+Cb4+Eb5 Gb4+Cb4+Eb5 Gb4+Cb4+Eb5
LCb2 Cb2 Cb2 Cb2 Cb2 Cb2 Cb2 Cb2
Bar 3
Db
RAb4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5
LDb3 Db3 Db3 Db3 Db3 Db3 Db3 Db3
Bar 4
Ab7
REb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Gb6 Eb6 C6 Ab5 G5 Gb5 F5 Fb5
LAb2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2
Bar 5
Ab7
REb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6
LAb2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2
Bar 6
Cb
RGb4+Cb4+Eb5 Gb4+Cb4+Eb5 Gb4+Cb4+Eb5 Gb4+Cb4+Eb5 Gb4+Cb4+Eb5 Gb4+Cb4+Eb5 Gb4+Cb4+Eb5 Gb4+Cb4+Eb5
LCb2 Cb2 Cb2 Cb2 Cb2 Cb2 Cb2 Cb2
Bar 7
Db
RAb4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5 Ab4+Db5+F5
LDb3 Db3 Db3 Db3 Db3 Db3 Db3 Db3
Bar 8
Ab7
REb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6 Eb5+Ab5+C6
LAb2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2 Ab2

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 Ready For The Good Life

What are the letter notes for the Ready For The Good Life 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 Ab7 – Cb – Db – Ab7, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Ready For The Good Life?

The loop is Ab7 – Cb – Db – Ab7 (I7 – bIII – IV – I7) in Ab major, and the song ends on Db – Eb – Ab.

What key is Ready For The Good Life in?

Ab major, at about 105 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Ready For The Good Life?

Engine 8ths: root bass · 8ths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Ready For The Good Life 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.