Piano chords · Rock drive
Talking In Your Sleep: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By The Romantics
- D minor
- 4/4
- 140 BPM
- 1983
- 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 Talking In Your Sleep without reading music. The left hand plays heartbeat octaves (rocking octaves) and the right hand pumping chords.
Talking In Your Sleep accompaniment in letter notes
The Dm – Gm – C7 – Dm loop with heartbeat octaves in the left hand and pumping 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.
Play next
The same left hand: Heartbeat octaves
Questions about Talking In Your Sleep
What are the letter notes for the Talking In Your Sleep 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 Dm – Gm – C7 – Dm, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Talking In Your Sleep?
The loop is Dm – Gm – C7 – Dm (i – iv – bVII7 – i) in D minor, and the song ends on Bb – C – Dm.
What key is Talking In Your Sleep in?
D minor, at about 140 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Talking In Your Sleep?
Heartbeat octaves: rocking octaves, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Talking In Your Sleep 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.