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What Time Is It: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- F major
- 4/4
- 116 BPM
- 2007
- Medium
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 Time Is It without reading music. The left hand plays dawdling footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 3& · 4) and the right hand pumping chords.
What Time Is It accompaniment in letter notes
The F7 – Eb – F7 – Eb loop with dawdling footsteps in the left hand and pumping 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 Time Is It
What are the letter notes for the What Time Is It 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 F7 – Eb – F7 – Eb, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in What Time Is It?
The loop is F7 – Eb – F7 – Eb (I7 – bVII – I7 – bVII) in F major, and the song ends on Bb – C – F.
What key is What Time Is It in?
F major, at about 116 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in What Time Is It?
Dawdling footsteps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 3& · 4, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is What Time Is It 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 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.