Piano chords · Dreamy ballad
What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Michel Legrand
- A minor
- 4/4
- 100 BPM
- 1969
- 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 Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life without reading music. The left hand plays rolling waves (open arpeggio 1-5-10-5) and the right hand hopscotch chords.
The catchy part of What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life in letter notes
The real notes from a score, both hands, bar by bar. R is the right hand, L the left; C4 is middle C.
What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life accompaniment in letter notes
The Am – Am – Fmaj7 – Fmaj7 loop with rolling waves in the left hand and hopscotch 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 What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life
What are the letter notes for the What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life 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 Am – Am – Fmaj7 – Fmaj7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
The loop is Am – Am – Fmaj7 – Fmaj7 (i – VImaj7 – i – VImaj7) in A minor, and the song ends on F – G – Am.
What key is What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life in?
A minor, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
Rolling waves: open arpeggio 1-5-10-5, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life 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.
Can I hear the real melody of What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
Yes: "The part you know" plays the catchy part of the song from a score, with both hands.
Made from 3 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.