Piano chords · Dreamy ballad
Softly As I Leave You: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Giorgio Calabrese
- C major
- 4/4
- 100 BPM
- I–ii–V7–I loop
- 1960
- 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 Softly As I Leave You without reading music. The left hand plays rolling waves (open arpeggio 1-5-10-5) and the right hand hopscotch bells.
Softly As I Leave You accompaniment in letter notes
The C – Dm – G7 – C loop with rolling waves in the left hand and hopscotch bells 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 Softly As I Leave You
What are the letter notes for the Softly As I Leave 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 C – Dm – G7 – C, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Softly As I Leave You?
The loop is C – Dm – G7 – C (I – ii – V7 – I) in C major, and the song ends on C – Fm – C.
What key is Softly As I Leave You in?
C major, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Softly As I Leave You?
Rolling waves: open arpeggio 1-5-10-5, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Softly As I Leave 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 one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.