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Until It’s Time For You To Go: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Buffy Sainte-Marie

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Left hand Oom-pah-pahThe right hand sings the tuneChords 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 Until It’s Time For You To Go without reading music. The left hand plays oom-pah-pah (waltz oom-pah-pah), and the right hand sings the tune.

Until It’s Time For You To Go accompaniment in letter notes

The F7 – Bbm – Eb7 – Ab loop with oom-pah-pah in the left hand. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
F7
RF4+A4+C5
LF2 A2+C3 A2+C3
Bar 2
Bbm
RBb3+Db4+F4
LBb2 Db3+F3 Db3+F3
Bar 3
Eb7
REb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 G2+Bb2 G2+Bb2
Bar 4
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5 Ab4 C5 Eb5 Ab5 C6 Eb6 Ab6 C7
LAb2 C3+Eb3 C3+Eb3
Bar 5
F7
RF4+A4+C5
LF2 A2+C3 A2+C3
Bar 6
Bbm
RBb3+Db4+F4
LBb2 Db3+F3 Db3+F3
Bar 7
Eb7
REb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 G2+Bb2 G2+Bb2
Bar 8
Ab
RAb4+C5+Eb5
LAb2 C3+Eb3 C3+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 Until It’s Time For You To Go

What are the letter notes for the Until It’s Time For You To Go 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 F7 – Bbm – Eb7 – Ab, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Until It’s Time For You To Go?

The loop is F7 – Bbm – Eb7 – Ab (VI7 – ii – V7 – I) in Ab major, and the song ends on Db – Eb – Ab.

What key is Until It’s Time For You To Go in?

Ab major, at about 155 beats a minute in 3/4.

What does the left hand play in Until It’s Time For You To Go?

Oom-pah-pah: waltz oom-pah-pah, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Until It’s Time For You To Go 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.