Menuett in E flat
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How hard is it?
Medium, 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
- 238 ms
- Ornaments
- 0
- Quick leaps
- 0
- Span
- 12
- Black keys
- 39%
per note, at 126 bpm
nothing to decorate
of a fourth or wider
semitones, A#3 to A#4
of the notes
- its quickest passage asks for about 238 ms a note
- 39% of its notes fall on black keys
- it covers 23 notes across 5 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 at written pitch
- Kalimba up 4 semitones
- Violin at written pitch
- Xylophone up 16 semitones
- Accordion at written pitch
- Handpan not this one
- Guzheng not this one
- Drums not this one
Where this transcription came from
Beethoven, Menuett in E flat WoO 82 (1805), public domain. From mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BeethovenLv/WoO82/menuett_WoO82 - midi_read.py menuett_WoO82.mid 0 23 --track 2 The first section, stopping before the run of thirty-second notes that follows it - those arrive six to a beat and no lesson can ask for them. The last note is the source's 2.17 beats rounded to 2 for the same reason: what it was holding for is that run.
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.