How to Play Stand By Me – Easy Piano Tutorial – Bass and Chords

In this easy piano tutorial, you will learn how to play the song, Stand By Me by Ben E. King. Although this song is really in the key of A major, I decided to do it in the key of C major to keep things very easy for the absolute beginner. As you may know, the key of C major makes use of white keys only.

I start by playing the bass and chords for the entire song first of all. I show you three ways in which you can play the chords. After this, we take a look at the chords for Stand By Me, followed by the very easy bass pattern.  At the end we put everything together.

This song has a very simple chord sequence. In the key of C major, as seen in the How to Play Stand By Me Easy Piano Tutorial, the chords are C major – A minor – F major – G major – C major. This pattern simply repeats over and over throughout the entire song.

As for the left hand part, the bass notes are as follows:

G B C C G B C C
C B A A G A A
A G F F F A G G
G B C C G B C C

Watch the video:

Ben E King Stand By Me Easy Piano Tutorial

Key of A Major

In the key of A major, the chords for Stand by me are A major – F sharp minor – D major – E major – A major.

In the key of A major, the bass notes are as follows:

E G# A A E G# A
A G# F# F# E F# F#
F# E D D D F# E E
E G# A A E G# A

Stand By Me Piano Tutorial – Original Key of  A Major

Here’s Stand By Me in its original key of A major.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial. All the best and keep practicing.

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