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What The World Needs Now Is Love: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- G major
- 3/4
- 110 BPM
- 1965
- Easy
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 The World Needs Now Is Love without reading music. The left hand plays oom-pah-pah (waltz oom-pah-pah) and the right hand waltz chords.
What The World Needs Now Is Love accompaniment in letter notes
The Bm – Em – Bm – Em loop with oom-pah-pah in the left hand and waltz 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 The World Needs Now Is Love
What are the letter notes for the What The World Needs Now Is Love 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 Bm – Em – Bm – Em, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in What The World Needs Now Is Love?
The loop is Bm – Em – Bm – Em (iii – vi – iii – vi) in G major, and the song ends on C – D7 – G.
What key is What The World Needs Now Is Love in?
G major, at about 110 beats a minute in 3/4.
What does the left hand play in What The World Needs Now Is Love?
Oom-pah-pah: waltz oom-pah-pah, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is What The World Needs Now Is Love easy to play on piano?
Yes. Both hands play easy patterns over 4 chords. Learn the chords first, then add one hand at a time.
Made from 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.