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We’ll Keep A Welcome: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Harry Secombe

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Left hand Three-step climbThe right hand sings the tuneChords the loop the song repeats most

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’ll Keep A Welcome without reading music. The left hand plays three-step climb (broken chord 1-5-8), and the right hand sings the tune.

We’ll Keep A Welcome accompaniment in letter notes

The Bb7 – Eb – Bb7 – Eb loop with three-step climb in the left hand. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Bb7
RBb3+D4+F4
LBb2 F3 Bb3
Bar 2
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Bb2 Eb3
Bar 3
Bb7
RBb3+D4+F4
LBb2 F3 Bb3
Bar 4
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4 G4 Bb4 Eb5 G5 Bb5 Eb6 G6 Bb6
LEb2 Bb2 Eb3
Bar 5
Bb7
RBb3+D4+F4
LBb2 F3 Bb3
Bar 6
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Bb2 Eb3
Bar 7
Bb7
RBb3+D4+F4
LBb2 F3 Bb3
Bar 8
Eb
REb4+G4+Bb4
LEb2 Bb2 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 We’ll Keep A Welcome

What are the letter notes for the We’ll Keep A Welcome 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 Bb7 – Eb – Bb7 – Eb, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in We’ll Keep A Welcome?

The loop is Bb7 – Eb – Bb7 – Eb (V7 – I – V7 – I) in Eb major, and the song ends on F7 – Bb7 – Eb.

What key is We’ll Keep A Welcome in?

Eb major, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in We’ll Keep A Welcome?

Three-step climb: broken chord 1-5-8, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is We’ll Keep A Welcome 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.