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Something To Talk About: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Bonnie Raitt
- A major
- 4/4
- 110 BPM
- I–V–I–V loop
- 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 To Talk About without reading music. The left hand plays tick-tick-boom pulse (root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4) and the right hand offbeat skank.
Something To Talk About accompaniment in letter notes
The A – E – A – E loop with tick-tick-boom pulse in the left hand and offbeat skank 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 Something To Talk About
What are the letter notes for the Something To Talk About 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 A – E – A – E, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Something To Talk About?
The loop is A – E – A – E (I – V – I – V) in A major, and the song ends on D – E – A.
What key is Something To Talk About in?
A major, at about 110 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Something To Talk About?
Tick-tick-boom pulse: root bass · 8ths 1-2, 3-4, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Something To Talk About 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.