Piano chords · Pop heartbeat
Wish You Were Here: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Brian Tyler
- E major
- 4/4
- 84 BPM
- 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 Wish You Were Here without reading music. The left hand plays pop heartbeat (root bass · charleston push (1 · 2& · 3)) and the right hand firefly blink.
Wish You Were Here accompaniment in letter notes
The E – B – C#m – Asus4 loop with pop heartbeat in the left hand and firefly 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.
Questions about Wish You Were Here
What are the letter notes for the Wish You Were Here 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 E – B – C#m – Asus4, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Wish You Were Here?
The loop is E – B – C#m – Asus4 (I – V – vi – IVsus) in E major, and the song ends on A – B – E.
What key is Wish You Were Here in?
E major, at about 84 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Wish You Were Here?
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 Wish You Were Here 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.