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Shut Up And Drive: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
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- D major
- 4/4
- 130 BPM
- Medium
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 Shut Up And Drive without reading music. The left hand plays heartbeat octaves (rocking octaves) and the right hand hurrying chords.
Shut Up And Drive accompaniment in letter notes
The D – G – C – D loop with heartbeat octaves in the left hand and hurrying chords 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.
Play next
The same left hand: Heartbeat octaves
Questions about Shut Up And Drive
What are the letter notes for the Shut Up And Drive 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 D – G – C – D, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Shut Up And Drive?
The loop is D – G – C – D (I5 – IV5 – bVII5 – I5) in D major, and the song ends on G – A – D.
What key is Shut Up And Drive in?
D major, at about 130 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Shut Up And Drive?
Heartbeat octaves: rocking octaves, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Shut Up And Drive 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.