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Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Fred Godfrey
- Bb major
- 6/8
- 93 BPM
- 1916
- 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 Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty without reading music. The left hand plays hammock heartbeat (root bass · 6/8 lilt) and the right hand hammock chords.
Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty accompaniment in letter notes
The Bb – Cm – Fdim – C loop with hammock heartbeat in the left hand and hammock 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 Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty
What are the letter notes for the Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty 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 Bb – Cm – Fdim – C, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty?
The loop is Bb – Cm – Fdim – C (I – ii – vo – II) in Bb major, and the song ends on Bb – F7 – Bb.
What key is Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty in?
Bb major, at about 93 beats a minute in 6/8.
What does the left hand play in Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty?
Hammock heartbeat: root bass · 6/8 lilt, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty 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.