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What Time Is It: piano accompaniment sheet music
- F major
- 4/4
- 116 BPM
- 2007
- Medium
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What Time Is It written out as piano music: the I7 – bVII – I7 – bVII loop in F major for both hands, with chord names and finger numbers. Press play and follow the cursor. The left hand plays dawdling footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 3& · 4) and the right hand pumping chords.
What Time Is It chord chart
The loop once round, bar by bar, in F major. The roman numeral says the chord's place in the key, so the same chart works in any key.
| Bar | Chord | Numeral | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | F7 | I7 | F A C Eb |
| 2 | Eb | bVII | Eb G Bb |
| 3 | F7 | I7 | F A C Eb |
| 4 | Eb | bVII | Eb G Bb |
What the sheet music shows
The grand staff: the right hand on the treble staff, the left hand on the bass staff, with the chord names above and a finger number on each note (1 is the thumb). It is the accompaniment: dawdling footsteps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 3& · 4) in the left hand and pumping chords in the right, over the F7 – Eb – F7 – Eb chords.
Press play and a cursor follows the music. Above it, Colours paints each note in its key’s colour and Note names writes its letter on its head.
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Questions about What Time Is It
Does the sheet music for What Time Is It have finger numbers?
Yes: every note of both hands has its finger number, 1 being the thumb. To read the notes alone, turn Fingers off above the music.
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.