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Run To You: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

E major
4/4
128 BPM
Medium

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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 Run To You without reading music. The left hand plays engine 8ths (root bass · 8ths) and the right hand freeze-tag chords.

Run To You accompaniment in letter notes

The B – F#m – A – E loop with engine 8ths 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
BRD#4+F#4+B4 D#4+F#4+B4 D#4+F#4+B4
LB2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2

Bar 2
F#mRA4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5
LF#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2

Bar 3
ARC#4+E4+A4 C#4+E4+A4 C#4+E4+A4
LA2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2

Bar 4
ERG#4+B4+E5 G#4+B4+E5 G#4+B4+E5 G#6 E6 B5 G#5 G5 F#5 F5 E5
LE2 E2 E2 E2 E2 E2 E2 E2

Bar 5
BRD#4+F#4+B4 D#4+F#4+B4 D#4+F#4+B4
LB2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2

Bar 6
F#mRA4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5 A4+C#5+F#5
LF#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2 F#2

Bar 7
ARC#4+E4+A4 C#4+E4+A4 C#4+E4+A4
LA2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2 A2

Bar 8
ERG#4+B4+E5 G#4+B4+E5 G#4+B4+E5
LE2 E2 E2 E2 E2 E2 E2 E2

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 Run To You

What are the letter notes for the Run To You 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 B – F#m – A – E, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Run To You?

The loop is B – F#m – A – E (V – ii – IV – I) in E major, and the song ends on A – B – E.

What key is Run To You in?

E major, at about 128 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Run To You?

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

Is Run To You 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 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.