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Yellow Flicker Beat: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Lorde
- C major
- 4/4
- 95 BPM
- 2014
- Medium
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 Yellow Flicker Beat without reading music. The left hand plays galloping heartbeat (root bass · 1 · 1a · 2 · 3 · 3a · 4) and the right hand steady chords.
Yellow Flicker Beat accompaniment in letter notes
The A – D – A – E loop with galloping heartbeat in the left hand and steady chords 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 Yellow Flicker Beat
What are the letter notes for the Yellow Flicker Beat 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 A – D – A – E, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Yellow Flicker Beat?
The loop is A – D – A – E (VI5 – II5 – VI5 – III5) in C major, and the song ends on F – G – C.
What key is Yellow Flicker Beat in?
C major, at about 95 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in Yellow Flicker Beat?
Galloping heartbeat: root bass · 1 · 1a · 2 · 3 · 3a · 4, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Yellow Flicker Beat 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 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.