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Somewhere With You: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Kenny Chesney

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Left hand Island pulseRight hand Ticking clockChords the loop the song repeats most

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 Somewhere With You without reading music. The left hand plays island pulse (root bass · tresillo 3-3-2) and the right hand ticking clock.

Somewhere With You accompaniment in letter notes

The C#m – B – A – B loop with island pulse in the left hand and ticking clock in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
C#m
RC#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4
LC#3 C#3 C#3
Bar 2
B
RB3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3
LB2 B2 B2
Bar 3
A
RA3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3
LA2 A2 A2
Bar 4
B
RB3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 D#4 E4 F#4 G#4 A4 B4 C#5 D#5
LB2 B2 B2
Bar 5
C#m
RC#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4 C#4
LC#3 C#3 C#3
Bar 6
B
RB3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3
LB2 B2 B2
Bar 7
A
RA3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 A3
LA2 A2 A2
Bar 8
B
RB3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3 B3
LB2 B2 B2

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 Somewhere With You

What are the letter notes for the Somewhere With 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#m – B – A – B, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Somewhere With You?

The loop is C#m – B – A – B (i – bVII – bVI – bVII) in C# minor, and the song ends on A – B – C#m.

What key is Somewhere With You in?

C# minor, at about 110 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Somewhere With You?

Island pulse: root bass · tresillo 3-3-2, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Somewhere With 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.