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The Closer I Get To You: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
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- A major
- 4/4
- 70 BPM
- 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 The Closer I Get To You without reading music. The left hand plays power fifths (lh power fifths), and the right hand sings the tune.
The Closer I Get To You accompaniment in letter notes
The D – C#m – F#m – A loop with power fifths in the left hand. 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 Closer I Get To You
What are the letter notes for the The Closer I Get To You 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 D – C#m – F#m – A, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in The Closer I Get To You?
The loop is D – C#m – F#m – A (IV – iii – vi – I) in A major, and the song ends on D – E – A.
What key is The Closer I Get To You in?
A major, at about 70 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in The Closer I Get To You?
Power fifths: lh power fifths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is The Closer I Get To You 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.