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Sweet Someone: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Baron Keyes

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Left hand Bobbing boatRight hand Hopscotch bellsChords 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 Sweet Someone without reading music. The left hand plays bobbing boat (open arpeggio 8-12-1-8) and the right hand hopscotch bells.

Sweet Someone accompaniment in letter notes

The Gm – C7 – Gm – C7 loop with bobbing boat in the left hand and hopscotch bells in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Gm
RG5 Bb4+D5 Bb4+D5
LG3 D4 G2 G3
Bar 2
C7
RC5 E4+G4 E4+G4
LC4 G4 C3 C4
Bar 3
Gm
RG5 Bb4+D5 Bb4+D5
LG3 D4 G2 G3
Bar 4
C7
RC5 E4+G4 E4 G4 Bb4 C5 E5 G5 Bb5 C6
LC4 G4 C3 C4
Bar 5
Gm
RG5 Bb4+D5 Bb4+D5
LG3 D4 G2 G3
Bar 6
C7
RC5 E4+G4 E4+G4
LC4 G4 C3 C4
Bar 7
Gm
RG5 Bb4+D5 Bb4+D5
LG3 D4 G2 G3
Bar 8
C7
RC5 E4+G4 E4+G4
LC4 G4 C3 C4

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 Sweet Someone

What are the letter notes for the Sweet Someone 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 Gm – C7 – Gm – C7, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Sweet Someone?

The loop is Gm – C7 – Gm – C7 (ii – V7 – ii – V7) in F major, and the song ends on Bb – C – F.

What key is Sweet Someone in?

F major, at about 80 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Sweet Someone?

Bobbing boat: open arpeggio 8-12-1-8, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Sweet Someone 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.