Repertoire
Arrangements written with Amadeo. Open one to hear it on any instrument, practise it with the falling notes or download the score.
- Ode to Joy
The theme of the Ninth Symphony's finale, with the melody over steady fifths in the left hand.
BeginnerFree - Ah, vous dirai-je, maman
The theme Mozart wrote twelve variations on, known to everyone as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
BeginnerFree - Eine kleine Nachtmusik
The opening of the first movement, the two hands in octaves as the strings play it.
EasyFree - Prelude in C major, BWV 846
The first prelude of The Well-Tempered Clavier: one broken chord a measure over a held bass, closing straight on the home chord.
EasyFree - Für Elise
The famous first theme, as Beethoven wrote it.
EasyFree - Gymnopédie No. 1
The slow opening: the rocking chords of the left hand, then the melody.
EasyFree - Canon in D
The ground bass and its chords, then the descending line everyone knows.
EasyFree - Greensleeves
The English ballad over open fifths in the left hand.
EasyFree - Minuet in G
The first eight bars of the minuet from Anna Magdalena Bach's notebook.
BeginnerFree - Hot Cross Buns
An English street cry: three notes, a step apart, and a run of quick ones in the middle.
BeginnerFree - Alle meine Entchen
The first song German children learn to play: five notes up, and the ducklings swim back down.
BeginnerFree - Au clair de la lune
Pierrot's moonlit song, the classic first tune for French beginners: four phrases, three of them the same.
BeginnerFree - Frère Jacques
The round sung all over the world. Play it while a friend starts two measures later.
BeginnerFree - Lightly Row
Known in German as Hänschen klein: a tune that walks down the scale in steps and skips.
BeginnerFree - Summ, summ, summ
A busy bee of a tune, words by Hoffmann von Fallersleben: steps up and down around G.
BeginnerFree - The Cuckoo (Kuckuck, Kuckuck)
The cuckoo calls in falling thirds, a spring song in three beats to the bar.
BeginnerFree - Dansons la capucine
A French circle dance in two beats: the same short phrase four times, with a different ending.
BeginnerFree - London Bridge Is Falling Down
The bridge song in two quick beats, with a dotted rhythm at the start of each phrase.
BeginnerFree - When the Saints Go Marching In
The New Orleans spiritual. Each phrase starts on the offbeat after a rest, so count it in.
BeginnerFree - Fuchs, du hast die Gans gestohlen
Fox, you stole the goose: up the scale and back, then the same phrase twice down the steps.
EasyFree - Row, Row, Row Your Boat
A round in six-eight: feel two beats to the bar, each split in three.
EasyFree - Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf
A German lullaby, gently rocking in eighth notes between the third and the fifth.
EasyFree - Sur le pont d’Avignon
Dancing on the bridge at Avignon, in Weckerlin's 1870 version: accented beats and a dotted run.
EasyFree - La cucaracha
The Mexican folk song's chorus: three quick pickup notes, then a long held note each time.
EasyFree - Lavender’s Blue
An English folk song in three-eight, a light waltz with sixteenth notes skipping down.
EasyFree - Happy Birthday to You
The birthday song. The jump of an octave on the third phrase is the one to practise.
EasyFree - Kommt ein Vogel geflogen
A bird flies in with a letter from home: a waltz-like song that starts on the last beat.
EasyFree - Die Gedanken sind frei
Thoughts are free: a song of conscience, in three beats with a leap to the high C in its third line.
EasyFree - Es tönen die Lieder
A spring round in three parts: each line fits over the others, so it can be played with friends.
EasyFree - Ihr Kinderlein, kommet
A German Christmas carol, every phrase starting on a pickup eighth note.
EasyFree - Leise rieselt der Schnee
Snow falls softly: a quiet Christmas song in six-eight, each line ending on a long held note.
EasyFree - O Tannenbaum
O Christmas Tree, with its dotted opening and a middle part that climbs higher.
EasyFree - Il pleut, il pleut, bergère
The shepherdess hurries her sheep home before the storm, in a lilting six-eight.
EasyFree - Il était une bergère
The shepherdess and her “ron, ron, petit patapon”: six-eight with long and short notes.
EasyFree - À la claire fontaine
A French and Québécois ballad, smooth and singing, with a sixteenth-note turn near the end.
EasyFree - Le bon roi Dagobert
Good King Dagobert wore his breeches inside out: a comic song in a quick six-eight.
EasyFree - Weißt du, wie viel Sternlein stehen
Do you know how many stars there are: an evening song, each phrase opening with two eighths.
EasyFree - Amazing Grace
The hymn tune New Britain in three beats: long notes with two quick ones tucked in.
EasyFree - Red River Valley
A cowboy ballad, slow and even, with pickup notes into every line.
EasyFree - Go Down Moses
The spiritual in E minor, with a raised seventh (D♯) that pulls up to the home note.
IntermediateFree - Auld Lang Syne
The New Year's song, full of Scotch snaps and dotted rhythms: a good one for counting carefully.
IntermediateFree - Arirang
Korea's best-loved folk song, in a slow nine-eight: three beats, each of three eighths.
IntermediateFree - Brahms’ Lullaby (Wiegenlied)
Guten Abend, gut' Nacht, Op. 49 No. 4: the cradle song, set here in C so it lies under the hand.
IntermediateFree - In the Hall of the Mountain King
From Peer Gynt: the theme the cellos creep in with, staccato, in B minor.
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