Piano chords · Waltz garden
What'll I Do?: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
- C major
- 3/4
- 110 BPM
- 1924
- 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'll I Do? without reading music. The left hand plays moon river roll (open arpeggio 1-5-10 (3/4)) and the right hand waltz chords.
What'll I Do? accompaniment in letter notes
The C – Fm – C – Dm loop with moon river roll 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'll I Do?
What are the letter notes for the What'll I 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 C – Fm – C – Dm, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in What'll I Do??
The loop is C – Fm – C – Dm (I – iv – I – ii) in C major, and the song ends on F – G – C.
What key is What'll I Do? in?
C major, at about 110 beats a minute in 3/4.
What does the left hand play in What'll I Do??
Moon River roll: open arpeggio 1-5-10 (3/4), a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is What'll I 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 3 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.