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To Know Him Is To Love Him: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Phil Spector

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Left hand Swelling 6/8Right hand Cradle chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

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 To Know Him Is To Love Him without reading music. The left hand plays swelling 6/8 (open arpeggio 1-5-8-10-8-5 (6/8)) and the right hand cradle chords.

To Know Him Is To Love Him accompaniment in letter notes

The Db – Ab – Bbm – Ab loop with swelling 6/8 in the left hand and cradle chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Db
RDb4+F4+Ab4 Db4+F4+Ab4 Db4+F4+Ab4
LDb3 Ab3 Db4 F4 Db4 Ab3
Bar 2
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5 Ab4+C5+Eb5 Ab4+C5+Eb5
LAb2 Eb3 Ab3 C4 Ab3 Eb3
Bar 3
Bbm
RBb3+Db4+F4 Bb3+Db4+F4 Bb3+Db4+F4
LBb2 F3 Bb3 Db4 Bb3 F3
Bar 4
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5 Ab4 C5 Eb5 Ab5 C6 Eb6
LAb2 Eb3 Ab3 C4 Ab3 Eb3
Bar 5
Db
RDb4+F4+Ab4 Db4+F4+Ab4 Db4+F4+Ab4
LDb3 Ab3 Db4 F4 Db4 Ab3
Bar 6
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5 Ab4+C5+Eb5 Ab4+C5+Eb5
LAb2 Eb3 Ab3 C4 Ab3 Eb3
Bar 7
Bbm
RBb3+Db4+F4 Bb3+Db4+F4 Bb3+Db4+F4
LBb2 F3 Bb3 Db4 Bb3 F3
Bar 8
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5 Ab4+C5+Eb5 Ab4+C5+Eb5
LAb2 Eb3 Ab3 C4 Ab3 Eb3

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 To Know Him Is To Love Him

What are the letter notes for the To Know Him Is To Love Him 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 Db – Ab – Bbm – Ab, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in To Know Him Is To Love Him?

The loop is Db – Ab – Bbm – Ab (I – V – vi – V) in Db major, and the song ends on Db – Ebm – Db.

What key is To Know Him Is To Love Him in?

Db major, at about 105 beats a minute in 6/8.

What does the left hand play in To Know Him Is To Love Him?

Swelling 6/8: open arpeggio 1-5-8-10-8-5 (6/8), a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is To Know Him Is To Love Him 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.