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This Is Your Life: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Switchfoot
- C# minor
- 4/4
- 140 BPM
- i–bVI–i–bVI loop
- 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 This Is Your Life without reading music. The left hand plays pausing footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 3) and the right hand gospel-clap chords.
This Is Your Life accompaniment in letter notes
The C#m – A – C#m – A loop with pausing footsteps in the left hand and gospel-clap 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 This Is Your Life
What are the letter notes for the This Is Your Life 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 C#m – A – C#m – A, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in This Is Your Life?
The loop is C#m – A – C#m – A (i – bVI – i – bVI) in C# minor, and the song ends on A – B – C#m.
What key is This Is Your Life in?
C# minor, at about 140 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in This Is Your Life?
Pausing footsteps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 3, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is This Is Your Life 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.