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Where Was I When They Passed Out The Luck?: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Larry Grossman
- G major
- 3/4
- 100 BPM
- 1969
- 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 Where Was I When They Passed Out The Luck? without reading music. The left hand plays oom-pah-pah (waltz oom-pah-pah), and the right hand sings the tune.
Where Was I When They Passed Out The Luck? accompaniment in letter notes
The D7 – G – Em – F loop with oom-pah-pah in the left hand. 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.
Questions about Where Was I When They Passed Out The Luck?
What are the letter notes for the Where Was I When They Passed Out The Luck? 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 D7 – G – Em – F, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Where Was I When They Passed Out The Luck??
The loop is D7 – G – Em – F (V7 – I – vi – bVII) in G major, and the song ends on C – D – G.
What key is Where Was I When They Passed Out The Luck? in?
G major, at about 100 beats a minute in 3/4.
What does the left hand play in Where Was I When They Passed Out The Luck??
Oom-pah-pah: waltz oom-pah-pah, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Where Was I When They Passed Out The Luck? 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.