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The Boys Are Back: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- C minor
- 4/4
- 116 BPM
- Medium
Play the full song with sheet music
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 The Boys Are Back without reading music. The left hand plays dawdling footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 3& · 4) and the right hand ticking clock.
The Boys Are Back accompaniment in letter notes
The C – Eb – Ab – F loop with dawdling footsteps 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 The Boys Are Back
What are the letter notes for the The Boys Are Back 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 – Eb – Ab – F, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in The Boys Are Back?
The loop is C – Eb – Ab – F (I5 – bIII5 – bVI5 – IV5) in C minor, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Cm.
What key is The Boys Are Back in?
C minor, at about 116 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in The Boys Are Back?
Dawdling footsteps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 3& · 4, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is The Boys Are Back 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.