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There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin & others
- Bb major
- 4/4
- 100 BPM
- 1935
- Easy
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 There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York without reading music. The left hand plays island pulse (root bass · tresillo 3-3-2) and the right hand skip-and-stroll chords.
There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York accompaniment in letter notes
The Bb – Gb7 – Eb – F7 loop with island pulse in the left hand and skip-and-stroll 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 There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York
What are the letter notes for the There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York 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 Bb – Gb7 – Eb – F7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York?
The loop is Bb – Gb7 – Eb – F7 (I – bVI7 – IV – V7) in Bb major, and the song ends on Eb – F – Bb.
What key is There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York in?
Bb major, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York?
Island pulse: root bass · tresillo 3-3-2, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York 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.