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What I Am: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Brandon Aly, Edie Brickell & others
- B minor
- 4/4
- 144 BPM
- 1988
- 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 I Am without reading music. The left hand plays pony-trot pulse (root bass · 1 · 1& · 2 · 2& · 3& · 4) and the right hand pop stabs.
What I Am accompaniment in letter notes
The Bsus4 – Dsus4 – Asus4 – Bsus4 loop with pony-trot pulse in the left hand and pop stabs 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 I Am
What are the letter notes for the What I Am 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 Bsus4 – Dsus4 – Asus4 – Bsus4, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in What I Am?
The loop is Bsus4 – Dsus4 – Asus4 – Bsus4 (Isus – bIIIsus – bVIIsus – Isus) in B minor, and the song ends on G – A – Bm.
What key is What I Am in?
B minor, at about 144 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in What I Am?
Pony-trot pulse: root bass · 1 · 1& · 2 · 2& · 3& · 4, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is What I Am 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.