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The Long Road Back: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Hans Zimmer & Steve Jablonsky
- C major
- 6/8
- 99 BPM
- 2002
- 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 Long Road Back without reading music. The left hand plays cradle pulse (root bass · 1 · 2 · 2.3 (6/8)) and the right hand rowing-boat chords.
The Long Road Back accompaniment in letter notes
The Am – G – Am – F loop with cradle pulse in the left hand and rowing-boat 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 The Long Road Back
What are the letter notes for the The Long Road 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 Am – G – Am – F, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in The Long Road Back?
The loop is Am – G – Am – F (vi – V – vi – IV) in C major, and the song ends on F – G – C.
What key is The Long Road Back in?
C major, at about 99 beats a minute in 6/8.
What does the left hand play in The Long Road Back?
Cradle pulse: root bass · 1 · 2 · 2.3 (6/8), an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is The Long Road 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.