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Where The Dream Takes You: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

Written by Diane Warren

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Left hand Pop heartbeatRight hand Drip-drop slideChords 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 Where The Dream Takes You without reading music. The left hand plays pop heartbeat (root bass · charleston push (1 · 2& · 3)) and the right hand drip-drop slide.

Where The Dream Takes You accompaniment in letter notes

The C – Dm – C – F loop with pop heartbeat in the left hand and drip-drop slide in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
C
RC5 C5 C5 C5 Bb4 Bb4
LC3 C3 C3
Bar 2
Dm
RD5 D5 D5 D5 C5 C5
LD2 D2 D2
Bar 3
C
RC5 C5 C5 C5 Bb4 Bb4
LC3 C3 C3
Bar 4
F
RF5 F5 F5 D4 E4 F4 G4 A4 B4 C5 D5
LF2 F2 F2
Bar 5
C
RC5 C5 C5 C5 Bb4 Bb4
LC3 C3 C3
Bar 6
Dm
RD5 D5 D5 D5 C5 C5
LD2 D2 D2
Bar 7
C
RC5 C5 C5 C5 Bb4 Bb4
LC3 C3 C3
Bar 8
F
RF5 F5 F5 F5 Eb5 Eb5
LF2 F2 F2

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 Where The Dream Takes You

What are the letter notes for the Where The Dream Takes 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 C – Dm – C – F, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Where The Dream Takes You?

The loop is C – Dm – C – F (I – ii – I – IV) in C major, and the song ends on F – G – C.

What key is Where The Dream Takes You in?

C major, at about 96 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Where The Dream Takes You?

Pop heartbeat: root bass · charleston push (1 · 2& · 3), an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Where The Dream Takes You 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.