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(They Long To Be) Close To You: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- Eb major
- 4/4
- 126 BPM
- 1963
- 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 (They Long To Be) Close To You without reading music. The left hand plays lingering footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 3&) and the right hand pumping chords.
(They Long To Be) Close To You accompaniment in letter notes
The Cm – Cbm – Bbm – A7 loop with lingering footsteps in the left hand and pumping 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 (They Long To Be) Close To You
What are the letter notes for the (They Long To Be) Close 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 Cm – Cbm – Bbm – A7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in (They Long To Be) Close To You?
The loop is Cm – Cbm – Bbm – A7 (vi – bvi – v – #IV7) in Eb major, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Eb.
What key is (They Long To Be) Close To You in?
Eb major, at about 126 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in (They Long To Be) Close To You?
Lingering footsteps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 3&, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is (They Long To Be) Close 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 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.