Home, Sweet Home

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

489 ms

per note, at 92 bpm

Ornaments

2

notes shorter than a snap

Quick leaps

0

of a fourth or wider

Span

12

semitones, F4 to F5

Black keys

19%

of the notes

• nothing in it moves faster than about 489 ms a note, so the hands are never rushed
• 2 very short notes to turn
• it covers 75 notes across 10 phrases, which is how it is taught in the app, one breath at a time

What you can play it on

6 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 down 1 octave
• Kalimba down 5 semitones
• Violin at written pitch
• Xylophone up 7 semitones
• Accordion at written pitch
• Handpan not this one
• Guzheng not this one
• Drums not this one

Where this transcription came from

Bishop's parlour song (1823), public domain, from the Mutopia voice-and-piano edition in its own F major: mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BishopHR/homeshome - midi_read.py homeshome.mid 0 75 --track 2 Verse twice and the "Home! home!" chorus. The piano's bass track rides under it; its right hand doubles the voice and stays out.

Mutopia Project

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.