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'twas The Night Before Christmas: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Clement Clark Moore
- C major
- 4/4
- 100 BPM
- 1993
- Medium
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 'twas The Night Before Christmas without reading music. The left hand plays power fifths (lh power fifths) and the right hand stepping-down taps.
'twas The Night Before Christmas accompaniment in letter notes
The D7 – G7 – C – Gm loop with power fifths in the left hand and stepping-down taps 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 'twas The Night Before Christmas
What are the letter notes for the 'twas The Night Before Christmas 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 D7 – G7 – C – Gm, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in 'twas The Night Before Christmas?
The loop is D7 – G7 – C – Gm (II7 – V7 – I – v) in C major, and the song ends on D7 – G7 – C.
What key is 'twas The Night Before Christmas in?
C major, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in 'twas The Night Before Christmas?
Power fifths: lh power fifths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is 'twas The Night Before Christmas 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.