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The Way You Look Tonight: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Jerome Kern
- Eb major
- 4/4
- 80 BPM
- 1936
- 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 Way You Look Tonight without reading music. The left hand plays power fifths (lh power fifths) and the right hand push chords.
The main tune of The Way You Look Tonight in letter notes
The real notes from a score, both hands, bar by bar. R is the right hand, L the left; C4 is middle C.
The Way You Look Tonight accompaniment in letter notes
The Gm7 – Cm7 – Fm – Bb7 – Gm – Cm7 – Fm7 – Bb7 loop with power fifths in the left hand and push 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 Way You Look Tonight
What are the letter notes for the The Way You Look Tonight 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 Gm7 – Cm7 – Fm – Bb7 – Gm – Cm7 – Fm7 – Bb7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in The Way You Look Tonight?
The loop is Gm7 – Cm7 – Fm – Bb7 – Gm – Cm7 – Fm7 – Bb7 (iii7 – vi7 – ii – V7 – iii – vi7 – ii7 – V7) in Eb major, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Eb.
What key is The Way You Look Tonight in?
Eb major, at about 80 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in The Way You Look Tonight?
Power fifths: lh power fifths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is The Way You Look Tonight easy to play on piano?
It is a medium one: learn the 8 chords as blocks first, then add the left hand, then the right, slowly.
Can I hear the real melody of The Way You Look Tonight?
Yes: "The part you know" plays the main tune of the song from a score, with both hands.
Made from 9 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.