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What You Want: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

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  • Bb major
  • 4/4
  • 126 BPM
  • Medium
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Left hand Engine 8thsRight hand Swing pushChords the loop the song repeats most

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 You Want without reading music. The left hand plays engine 8ths (root bass · 8ths) and the right hand swing push.

What You Want accompaniment in letter notes

The Bb – Cm – Bb – Ebm loop with engine 8ths in the left hand and swing push in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Bb
RF4+Bb4+D5 F4+Bb4+D5 F4+Bb4+D5
LBb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2
Bar 2
Cm
RG4+C5+Eb5 G4+C5+Eb5 G4+C5+Eb5
LC3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3
Bar 3
Bb
RF4+Bb4+D5 F4+Bb4+D5 F4+Bb4+D5
LBb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2
Bar 4
Ebm
RBb4+Eb5+Gb5 Bb4+Eb5+Gb5 Bb4+Eb5+Gb5 Bb6 Gb6 Eb6 Bb5 A5 Ab5 G5 Gb5
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2
Bar 5
Bb
RF4+Bb4+D5 F4+Bb4+D5 F4+Bb4+D5
LBb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2
Bar 6
Cm
RG4+C5+Eb5 G4+C5+Eb5 G4+C5+Eb5
LC3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3 C3
Bar 7
Bb
RF4+Bb4+D5 F4+Bb4+D5 F4+Bb4+D5
LBb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2 Bb2
Bar 8
Ebm
RBb4+Eb5+Gb5 Bb4+Eb5+Gb5 Bb4+Eb5+Gb5
LEb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2 Eb2

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 You Want

What are the letter notes for the What You Want 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 Bb – Cm – Bb – Ebm, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in What You Want?

The loop is Bb – Cm – Bb – Ebm (I – ii – I – iv) in Bb major, and the song ends on Eb – F – Bb.

What key is What You Want in?

Bb major, at about 126 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in What You Want?

Engine 8ths: root bass · 8ths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is What You Want 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.