Piano chords · Blues & boogie
Were You There?: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- F major
- 4/4
- 115 BPM
- I–IV–I–ii loop
- 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 Were You There? without reading music. The left hand plays rock’n’roll rocker (rock’n’roll 5–6 shuffle) and the right hand soft chords.
Were You There? accompaniment in letter notes
The F – Bb – F – Gm loop with rock’n’roll rocker in the left hand and soft 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 Were You There?
What are the letter notes for the Were You There? 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 F – Bb – F – Gm, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Were You There??
The loop is F – Bb – F – Gm (I – IV – I – ii) in F major, and the song ends on Bb – C – F.
What key is Were You There? in?
F major, at about 115 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Were You There??
Rock’n’roll rocker: rock’n’roll 5–6 shuffle, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Were You There? 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 3 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.