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What A Day That Will Be: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Jim Hill
- Ab major
- 3/4
- 135 BPM
- I–V7–I–V7 loop
- 1955
- 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 What A Day That Will Be without reading music. The left hand plays waltz stride (stride (3/4)), and the right hand sings the tune.
What A Day That Will Be accompaniment in letter notes
The Ab – Eb7 – Ab – Eb7 loop with waltz stride in the left hand. 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 What A Day That Will Be
What are the letter notes for the What A Day That Will Be 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 Ab – Eb7 – Ab – Eb7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in What A Day That Will Be?
The loop is Ab – Eb7 – Ab – Eb7 (I – V7 – I – V7) in Ab major, and the song ends on Ab – Eb7 – Ab.
What key is What A Day That Will Be in?
Ab major, at about 135 beats a minute in 3/4.
What does the left hand play in What A Day That Will Be?
Waltz stride: stride (3/4), a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is What A Day That Will Be 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.