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Watch What Happens: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Norman Gimbel

  • Eb major
  • 4/4
  • 132 BPM
  • 1964
  • Medium
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Left hand Island zigzagRight hand Groovy 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 Watch What Happens without reading music. The left hand plays island zigzag (broken chord 8-12-5) and the right hand groovy chords.

Watch What Happens accompaniment in letter notes

The Eb – F7 – Fm – Eb loop with island zigzag in the left hand and groovy chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Eb
RG4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5
LEb3 Bb3 Bb2
Bar 2
F7
RA4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5
LF3 C4 C3
Bar 3
Fm
RAb4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5
LF3 C4 C3
Bar 4
Eb
RG4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4 Bb4 Eb5 G5 Bb5 Eb6 G6 Bb6
LEb3 Bb3 Bb2
Bar 5
Eb
RG4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5
LEb3 Bb3 Bb2
Bar 6
F7
RA4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5
LF3 C4 C3
Bar 7
Fm
RAb4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5 Ab4+C5+F5
LF3 C4 C3
Bar 8
Eb
RG4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5 G4+Bb4+Eb5
LEb3 Bb3 Bb2

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 Watch What Happens

What are the letter notes for the Watch What Happens 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 Eb – F7 – Fm – Eb, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Watch What Happens?

The loop is Eb – F7 – Fm – Eb (I – II7 – ii – I) in Eb major, and the song ends on Eb – Bb7 – Eb.

What key is Watch What Happens in?

Eb major, at about 132 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Watch What Happens?

Island zigzag: broken chord 8-12-5, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Watch What Happens 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.