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Something Just Like This: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Andrew Taggart, Chris Martin & others
- B minor
- 4/4
- 104 BPM
- bVI–bVII–i–bVII loop
- 2017
- 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 Something Just Like This without reading music. The left hand plays dawdling footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 3& · 4) and the right hand pumping chords.
Something Just Like This accompaniment in letter notes
The G – A – Bm – A loop with dawdling footsteps in the left hand and pumping 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 bVI–bVII–i–bVII loop
Questions about Something Just Like This
What are the letter notes for the Something Just Like This 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 G – A – Bm – A, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Something Just Like This?
The loop is G – A – Bm – A (bVI – bVII – i – bVII) in B minor, and the song ends on G – A – Bm.
What key is Something Just Like This in?
B minor, at about 104 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Something Just Like This?
Dawdling footsteps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 3& · 4, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Something Just Like This 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.