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Your Whole Life Long: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Twila Paris

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Left hand Open skyThe right hand sings the tuneChords the loop the song repeats most

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 Your Whole Life Long without reading music. The left hand plays open sky (open arpeggio 1-5-10), and the right hand sings the tune.

Your Whole Life Long accompaniment in letter notes

The A – G – A – D loop with open sky in the left hand. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
A
RA3+C#4+E4
LA2 E3 C#4
Bar 2
G
RG4+B4+D5
LG2 D3 B3
Bar 3
A
RA3+C#4+E4
LA2 E3 C#4
Bar 4
D
RD4+F#4+A4 F#4 A4 D5 F#5 A5 D6 F#6 A6
LD2 A2 F#3
Bar 5
A
RA3+C#4+E4
LA2 E3 C#4
Bar 6
G
RG4+B4+D5
LG2 D3 B3
Bar 7
A
RA3+C#4+E4
LA2 E3 C#4
Bar 8
D
RD4+F#4+A4
LD2 A2 F#3

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 Your Whole Life Long

What are the letter notes for the Your Whole Life Long 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 – G – A – D, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Your Whole Life Long?

The loop is A – G – A – D (V – IV – V – I) in D major, and the song ends on G – A – D.

What key is Your Whole Life Long in?

D major, at about 108 beats a minute in 2/2.

What does the left hand play in Your Whole Life Long?

Open sky: open arpeggio 1-5-10, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Your Whole Life Long 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.