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When I Lost You: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Irving Berlin
- G minor
- 4/4
- 80 BPM
- Easy
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 When I Lost You without reading music. The left hand plays hopscotch steps (root bass · 1 · 2 · 4) and the right hand hopscotch bells.
When I Lost You accompaniment in letter notes
The F7 – Bb – C#dim – F7 loop with hopscotch steps in the left hand and hopscotch bells 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 When I Lost You
What are the letter notes for the When I Lost You 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 – Bb – C#dim – F7, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in When I Lost You?
The loop is F7 – Bb – C#dim – F7 (bVII7 – bIII – #ivo – bVII7) in G minor, and the song ends on Eb – F – Gm.
What key is When I Lost You in?
G minor, at about 80 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in When I Lost You?
Hopscotch steps: root bass · 1 · 2 · 4, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is When I Lost You 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 one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.