Ave verum corpus
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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
- 1000 ms
- Ornaments
- 0
- Quick leaps
- 0
- Span
- 10
- Black keys
- 18%
per note, at 60 bpm
nothing to decorate
of a fourth or wider
semitones, A3 to G4
of the notes
- nothing in it moves faster than about 1000 ms a note, so the hands are never rushed
- it covers 45 notes across 8 phrases, which is how it is taught in the app, one breath at a time
What you can play it on
4 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
- Violin at written pitch
- Accordion at written pitch
- Kalimba not this one
- Handpan not this one
- Guzheng not this one
- Drums not this one
- Xylophone not this one
Where this transcription came from
Mozart, Ave verum corpus K618 (1791), public domain. From mutopiaproject.org/ftp/MozartWA/AveverumM - midi_read.py AveverumM.mid 0 45 --track 2 Six white keys wide and not one note shorter than a beat: by the two measures that decide whether a piece can be taught at all, this is the easiest music in the catalogue, classical or not. It was found by scanning every Beethoven and Mozart file in the Mutopia collection rather than by remembering famous pieces, which is how it was missed the first time round. The first sentence is stage 0, the excerpt that always shipped; growth adds the answering sentence, which closes on a whole bar of the tonic D - still nothing shorter than a beat, so this is the growing song anyone can grow.
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.