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Too Busy Thinking About My Baby: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Janie Bradford, Norman Whitfield & others

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Left hand Groovy rootsRight hand Wait-a-beat chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

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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 Too Busy Thinking About My Baby without reading music. The left hand plays groovy roots (root bass · syncopated 8ths) and the right hand wait-a-beat chords.

Too Busy Thinking About My Baby accompaniment in letter notes

The F – Gm – F – Gm loop with groovy roots in the left hand and wait-a-beat chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
F
RA4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5
LF2 F2 F2 F2 F2 F2
Bar 2
Gm
RBb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5
LG2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2
Bar 3
F
RA4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5
LF2 F2 F2 F2 F2 F2
Bar 4
Gm
RBb4+D5+G5 E4 F4 G4 A4 Bb4 C5 D5 E5
LG2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2
Bar 5
F
RA4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5
LF2 F2 F2 F2 F2 F2
Bar 6
Gm
RBb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5
LG2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2
Bar 7
F
RA4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5
LF2 F2 F2 F2 F2 F2
Bar 8
Gm
RBb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5 Bb4+D5+G5
LG2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2

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 Too Busy Thinking About My Baby

What are the letter notes for the Too Busy Thinking About My Baby 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 F – Gm – F – Gm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Too Busy Thinking About My Baby?

The loop is F – Gm – F – Gm (I – ii – I – ii) in F major, and the song ends on Bb – C – F.

What key is Too Busy Thinking About My Baby in?

F major, at about 120 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Too Busy Thinking About My Baby?

Groovy roots: root bass · syncopated 8ths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Too Busy Thinking About My Baby 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.