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When You're Home (from In The Heights: The Musical): piano accompaniment sheet music

By Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Left hand Engine 8thsRight hand Dance-floor chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

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When You're Home (from In The Heights: The Musical) written out as piano music: the vi – IV – I – V loop in E major for both hands, with chord names and finger numbers. Press play and follow the cursor. The left hand plays engine 8ths (root bass · 8ths) and the right hand dance-floor chords.

When You're Home (from In The Heights: The Musical) chord chart

The loop once round, bar by bar, in E major. The roman numeral says the chord's place in the key, so the same chart works in any key.

BarChordNumeralNotes
1C#mviC# E G#
2AIVA C# E
3EIE G# B
4BVB D# F#

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: engine 8ths (root bass · 8ths) in the left hand and dance-floor chords in the right, over the C#m – A – E – B 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 When You're Home (from In The Heights: The Musical)

Does the sheet music for When You're Home (from In The Heights: The Musical) 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 When You're Home (from In The Heights: The Musical)?

The loop is C#m – A – E – B (vi – IV – I – V) in E major, and the song ends on A – B – E.

What key is When You're Home (from In The Heights: The Musical) in?

E major, at about 85 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in When You're Home (from In The Heights: The Musical)?

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

Is When You're Home (from In The Heights: The Musical) 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 one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.