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You Are The Reason: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
Written by Calum Scott, Corey Sanders & others
- Bb major
- 6/8
- 87 BPM
- 2017
- 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 You Are The Reason without reading music. The left hand plays sea-breeze roll (open arpeggio 1-5-8-10 (6/8)) and the right hand cradle chords.
You Are The Reason accompaniment in letter notes
The Gm – Bb – Eb – F loop with sea-breeze roll in the left hand and cradle 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 You Are The Reason
What are the letter notes for the You Are The Reason 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 Gm – Bb – Eb – F, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in You Are The Reason?
The loop is Gm – Bb – Eb – F (vi – I – IV – V) in Bb major, and the song ends on Eb – Ebm – Bb.
What key is You Are The Reason in?
Bb major, at about 87 beats a minute in 6/8.
What does the left hand play in You Are The Reason?
Sea-breeze roll: open arpeggio 1-5-8-10 (6/8), a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is You Are The Reason 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.