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The Heart Wants What It Wants: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
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- G minor
- 4/4
- 80 BPM
- Easy
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 Heart Wants What It Wants without reading music. The left hand plays late-hop footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 3 · 3& · 4), and the right hand sings the tune.
The Heart Wants What It Wants accompaniment in letter notes
The Eb – Cm – Gm – Bb loop with late-hop footsteps 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 Heart Wants What It Wants
What are the letter notes for the The Heart Wants What It Wants 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 Eb – Cm – Gm – Bb, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in The Heart Wants What It Wants?
The loop is Eb – Cm – Gm – Bb (bVI – iv – i – bIII) in G minor, and the song ends on Eb – F – Gm.
What key is The Heart Wants What It Wants in?
G minor, at about 80 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in The Heart Wants What It Wants?
Late-hop footsteps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 3 · 3& · 4, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is The Heart Wants What It Wants easy to play on piano?
Yes. Both hands play easy patterns over 4 chords. Learn the chords first, then add one hand at a time.
Made from one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.