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What I Gotta Do: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Macy Gray
- Bb major
- 4/4
- 100 BPM
- bVI–bVII–bVI–bVII loop
- 2007
- 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 Gotta Do without reading music. The left hand plays lazy footsteps (root bass · 1 · 3 · 4) and the right hand ticking clock.
What I Gotta Do accompaniment in letter notes
The Gb – Ab – Gb – Ab loop with lazy footsteps in the left hand and ticking clock 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 Gotta Do
What are the letter notes for the What I Gotta Do 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 Gb – Ab – Gb – Ab, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in What I Gotta Do?
The loop is Gb – Ab – Gb – Ab (bVI – bVII – bVI – bVII) in Bb major, and the song ends on Eb – F – Bb.
What key is What I Gotta Do in?
Bb major, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in What I Gotta Do?
Lazy footsteps: root bass · 1 · 3 · 4, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is What I Gotta Do 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.