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This Love: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Adam Levine & Jesse Carmichael

  • C minor
  • 4/4
  • 100 BPM
  • 2002
  • Medium
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Left hand Pop heartbeatRight hand Ticking clockChords the loop the song repeats most

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 Love without reading music. The left hand plays pop heartbeat (root bass · charleston push (1 · 2& · 3)) and the right hand ticking clock.

This Love accompaniment in letter notes

The Cm – Fm – Bb7 – Eb loop with pop heartbeat in the left hand and ticking clock in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Cm
RC4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4
LC3 C3 C3
Bar 2
Fm
RF4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4
LF2 F2 F2
Bar 3
Bb7
RBb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3
LBb2 Bb2 Bb2
Bar 4
Eb
REb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 D4 Eb4 F4 G4 Ab4 Bb4 C5 D5
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 5
Cm
RC4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4 C4
LC3 C3 C3
Bar 6
Fm
RF4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4 F4
LF2 F2 F2
Bar 7
Bb7
RBb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3 Bb3
LBb2 Bb2 Bb2
Bar 8
Eb
REb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4 Eb4
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2

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.

Questions about This Love

What are the letter notes for the This Love 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 – Fm – Bb7 – Eb, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in This Love?

The loop is Cm – Fm – Bb7 – Eb (i – iv – bVII7 – bIII) in C minor, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Cm.

What key is This Love in?

C minor, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in This Love?

Pop heartbeat: root bass · charleston push (1 · 2& · 3), an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is This Love 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.