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Straighten Up And Fly Right: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- Ab major
- 2/2
- 100 BPM
- V7–I–IV–I loop
- 1944
- Medium
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 Straighten Up And Fly Right without reading music. The left hand plays rock’n’roll rocker (rock’n’roll 5–6 shuffle) and the right hand ticking clock.
Straighten Up And Fly Right accompaniment in letter notes
The Eb7 – Ab – Db – Ab loop with rock’n’roll rocker in the left hand and ticking clock 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 Straighten Up And Fly Right
What are the letter notes for the Straighten Up And Fly Right 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 Eb7 – Ab – Db – Ab, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Straighten Up And Fly Right?
The loop is Eb7 – Ab – Db – Ab (V7 – I – IV – I) in Ab major, and the song ends on Db – Eb – Ab.
What key is Straighten Up And Fly Right in?
Ab major, at about 100 beats a minute in 2/2.
What does the left hand play in Straighten Up And Fly Right?
Rock’n’roll rocker: rock’n’roll 5–6 shuffle, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Straighten Up And Fly Right 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 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.