How to Create Piano Accompaniment Sheet Music
Piano is an instrument that can be played as a lead instrument or found in the rhythm section. Piano is also a popular instrument for accompanying solo singers. Music written for a piano in this context is called piano accompaniment. Standard sheet music with lyrics is referred to most often as piano/vocal. Sheet music written for piano and vocal uses three staffs--two for the piano and one for the melody, or vocal line. Creating sheet music for a piano accompaniment isn't difficult if you have a basic understanding of how to read and write music notation.
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Instructions
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Use blank staff paper to write your piano accompaniment. You can buy it at a music store or even find it online at no charge (see Resources). Sheet music paper, or staff paper, consists of a series of music staffs, each with five lines and four spaces. These lines and spaces represent music notes. A typical sheet of staff paper contains ten or twelve staffs, also called staves. Piano accompaniment uses three staffs at a time, with the bottom two dedicated to the bass and treble clef for the piano and the top staff dedicated to the melody, or vocal, line.
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Write the information needed at the beginning of your piano accompaniment. The first bit of information is the clef sign. You will use a treble or a bass clef sign to indicate which clef the music is written in. For piano accompaniment, there will usually be a treble clef for the melody, a treble clef for the right hand of the piano and a bass clef for the left.
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Write the key signature after the time signature. The key signature is a series of sharp or flat signs that indicate the key a song is written in. No sharps or flats indicates a song is in the key of C. If you wanted to indicate a song was written in G, you place a sharp sign on the F line at the beginning of the sheet music.
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Attach the two bottom staffs together with a bracket at the beginning of the staffs to indicate the parts are played together on the piano. If you have lyrics that go with the melody and piano accompaniment, you can write the lyrics in the space beneath the first staff, matching the words with the notes of the melody.
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Tips & Warnings
If you aren't familiar with reading and writing music notation, you might want to purchase a beginning book on music notation. You can also find the information online free of charge (see Resources).
You can find free sheet music already formatted for piano accompaniment online at no charge (see Resources).
Noteflight is a free website that allows you to compose music online and print sheet music to your work free of charge (see Resources).
References
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You idiot. this is an article about how to make the sheet music, not how to write the music. Try paying attention next time...
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