Piano chords · Dreamy ballad
Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Eurythmics
- Ab major
- 4/4
- 136 BPM
- 1985
- 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 Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves without reading music. The left hand plays double-step climb (broken chord 1-1-3-3) and the right hand ticking clock.
Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves accompaniment in letter notes
The Ab – Bb – Ab – Fm loop with double-step climb in the left hand and ticking clock 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 Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves
What are the letter notes for the Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves 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 Ab – Bb – Ab – Fm, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves?
The loop is Ab – Bb – Ab – Fm (I – II – I – vi) in Ab major, and the song ends on Db – Eb – Ab.
What key is Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves in?
Ab major, at about 136 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves?
Double-step climb: broken chord 1-1-3-3, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves 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.