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You Can’t Hurry Love: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
By Brian Holland
- Bb major
- 4/4
- 100 BPM
- 1965
- 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 Can’t Hurry Love without reading music. The left hand plays bouncing alberti (alberti bass 1-8-5-8) and the right hand pumping chords.
You Can’t Hurry Love accompaniment in letter notes
The Bb – Eb – Bb – Dm loop with bouncing alberti in the left hand and pumping 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 Can’t Hurry Love
What are the letter notes for the You Can’t Hurry Love 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 Bb – Eb – Bb – Dm, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in You Can’t Hurry Love?
The loop is Bb – Eb – Bb – Dm (I – IV – I – iii) in Bb major, and the song ends on Eb – F7 – Bb.
What key is You Can’t Hurry Love in?
Bb major, at about 100 beats a minute in 4/4.
What does the left hand play in You Can’t Hurry Love?
Bouncing Alberti: alberti bass 1-8-5-8, an easy pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is You Can’t Hurry Love 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.