Andante grazioso
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How hard is it?
Easy, and not because someone remembered it that way. These five numbers come off the melody itself, the same way the app grades its lessons.
- Fastest passage
- 545 ms
- Ornaments
- 0
- Quick leaps
- 0
- Span
- 7
- Black keys
- 28%
per note, at 110 bpm
nothing to decorate
of a fourth or wider
semitones, A4 to E5
of the notes
- nothing in it moves faster than about 545 ms a note, so the hands are never rushed
- 28% of its notes fall on black keys
- it covers 36 notes across 8 phrases, which is how it is taught in the app, one breath at a time
What you can play it on
7 of the instruments in the workshop can teach this tune. Where the number differs from "all of them", the reason is the instrument, not the song: a diatonic kalimba has no sharps, and a pentatonic handpan or guzheng has no fourth or seventh at all.
- Piano at written pitch
- Guitar at written pitch
- Kalimba down 2 semitones
- Handpan down 1 octave
- Violin at written pitch
- Xylophone up 3 semitones
- Accordion at written pitch
- Guzheng not this one
- Drums not this one
Where this transcription came from
Mozart, Piano Sonata No. 11 in A K331 (1783), first movement - the theme its six variations are built on, and the same sonata whose finale is the Rondo alla Turca above. Public domain, from mutopiaproject.org/ftp/MozartWA/KV331/KV331_1_1_tema - midi_read.py KV331_1_1_tema.mid 0 36 --track 2 --scale 2 The whole binary theme: the first strain (stage 0 - the excerpt that always shipped) and the second, which opens by singing the first two phrases over again and then finds its real close on a held tonic A. FOUR white keys wide, the narrowest song here, and the growth adds no width and not one new pitch class - the gentlest growing song there is. Written with the eighth as the beat for its 6/8. Its five notes fit the pans and the zither, and stay fitting.
Every melody in this catalogue is public domain and was transcribed from a named source, then checked against it by a tool rather than by ear. None of them was written down from memory - which is the usual reason two versions of a folk tune on the internet disagree.
Learn it properly
Tapping the ribbon is not the same as playing it. In the app this melody arrives as a lesson: the notes fall in time on the instrument you picked, the board waits when you miss, and it counts the phrase again rather than moving on.