Piano chords · Old-time stride
We Wish You The Merriest: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Les Brown
- C major
- 4/4
- 160 BPM
- 1961
- 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 We Wish You The Merriest without reading music. The left hand plays boom-chick (boom-chick) and the right hand pumping chords.
We Wish You The Merriest accompaniment in letter notes
The Dm – G7 – C – C#dim loop with boom-chick in the left hand and pumping chords 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 We Wish You The Merriest
What are the letter notes for the We Wish You The Merriest 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 Dm – G7 – C – C#dim, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in We Wish You The Merriest?
The loop is Dm – G7 – C – C#dim (ii – V7 – I – biio) in C major, and the song ends on F – G – C.
What key is We Wish You The Merriest in?
C major, at about 160 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in We Wish You The Merriest?
Boom-chick: boom-chick, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is We Wish You The Merriest 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.