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Save You Tonight: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Savan Kotecha, Nadir Khayat & others

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Left hand Engine 8thsRight hand Offbeat skankChords the loop the song repeats most

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 Save You Tonight without reading music. The left hand plays engine 8ths (root bass · 8ths) and the right hand offbeat skank.

Save You Tonight accompaniment in letter notes

The F – C – Dm – Bb loop with engine 8ths in the left hand and offbeat skank in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
F
RA4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5
LF2 F2 F2 F2 F2 F2 F2 F2
Bar 2
C
RE4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5
LC3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3
Bar 3
Dm
RF4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5
LD2 D2 D2 D2 D2 D2 D2 D2
Bar 4
Bb
RD4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 Bb6 F6 D6 Bb5 A5 Ab5 G5 Gb5
LBb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2
Bar 5
F
RA4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5
LF2 F2 F2 F2 F2 F2 F2 F2
Bar 6
C
RE4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5
LC3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3
Bar 7
Dm
RF4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5
LD2 D2 D2 D2 D2 D2 D2 D2
Bar 8
Bb
RD4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4 D4+F4+Bb4
LBb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2

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 Save You Tonight

What are the letter notes for the Save You Tonight 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 F – C – Dm – Bb, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Save You Tonight?

The loop is F – C – Dm – Bb (I – V – vi – IV) in F major, and the song ends on Bb – C – F.

What key is Save You Tonight in?

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

What does the left hand play in Save You Tonight?

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

Is Save You Tonight 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.