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Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- F minor
- 4/4
- 66 BPM
- 2000
- Tricky
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 Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child without reading music. The left hand plays rainbow sweep (wide arpeggio 1-5-8-10-15) and the right hand soft chords.
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child accompaniment in letter notes
The Fm – Db7 – Fm – G7 loop with rainbow sweep in the left hand and soft 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.
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Questions about Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
What are the letter notes for the Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child 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 Fm – Db7 – Fm – G7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child?
The loop is Fm – Db7 – Fm – G7 (i – bVI7 – i – II7) in F minor, and the song ends on Db – Eb – Fm.
What key is Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child in?
F minor, at about 66 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child?
Rainbow sweep: wide arpeggio 1-5-8-10-15, a tricky pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child easy to play on piano?
It is a tricky one: learn the 4 chords as blocks first, then add the left hand, then the right, slowly.
Made from 4 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.