Piano chords · Rock drive
Set Fire To The Rain: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Adele
- D minor
- 4/4
- 100 BPM
- 2011
- 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 Set Fire To The Rain without reading music. The left hand plays engine 8ths (root bass · 8ths) and the right hand pop stabs.
The opening of Set Fire To The Rain in letter notes
The real notes from a score, both hands, bar by bar. R is the right hand, L the left; C4 is middle C.
Set Fire To The Rain accompaniment in letter notes
The Dm – Dm7 – A7 – C – Gm – C7 loop with engine 8ths in the left hand and pop stabs 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 Set Fire To The Rain
What are the letter notes for the Set Fire To The Rain 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 Dm – Dm7 – A7 – C – Gm – C7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Set Fire To The Rain?
The loop is Dm – Dm7 – A7 – C – Gm – C7 (i – i7 – V7 – VII – iv – VII7) in D minor, and the song ends on Bb – C – Dm.
What key is Set Fire To The Rain in?
D minor, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Set Fire To The Rain?
Engine 8ths: root bass · 8ths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Set Fire To The Rain easy to play on piano?
It is a medium one: learn the 6 chords as blocks first, then add the left hand, then the right, slowly.
Can I hear the real melody of Set Fire To The Rain?
Yes: "The part you know" plays the opening of the song from a score, with both hands.
Made from 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.