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Who Wants To Live Forever: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Brian May
- G major
- 4/4
- 72 BPM
- vi–IV–vi–IV loop
- 1986
- Medium
Play the full song with sheet music
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 Who Wants To Live Forever without reading music. The left hand plays hurry-and-wait pulse (root bass · 1 · 1a · 2&) and the right hand beacon blink.
Who Wants To Live Forever accompaniment in letter notes
The Em – C – Em – C loop with hurry-and-wait pulse in the left hand and beacon blink 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 Who Wants To Live Forever
What are the letter notes for the Who Wants To Live Forever 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 Em – C – Em – C, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Who Wants To Live Forever?
The loop is Em – C – Em – C (vi – IV – vi – IV) in G major, and the song ends on C – D – G.
What key is Who Wants To Live Forever in?
G major, at about 72 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Who Wants To Live Forever?
Hurry-and-wait pulse: root bass · 1 · 1a · 2&, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Who Wants To Live Forever 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.