Maurice Abrahams (1883–1931)
He'd Have to Get Under (Get Out and Get Under)
Maurice Abrahams's song of 1913 about a motorist under his stalled car, words by Grant Clarke and Edgar Leslie
Plays on a MIDI keyboard in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet, or on the keys on screen without one.
Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out and adds none, so every note in it is the piece's own. Print any of them free.
- As written1602 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand1054 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots551 notes
- Right-hand melody423 notes
The easy version, the melody and left-hand roots at level 3, engraved on its own page.
To practise it on paper: a practice chart for this piece, a week of steps from each hand alone to full tempo, with their speeds.
What it asks of you
- Treble clef from G3 to B5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from B1 to C4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 3 flats (E♭ major or C minor)
- Accidentals: naturals, flats outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat
- Intervals: octaves, 6ths, 4ths, 5ths, 7ths, 2nds (steps)
- Chords: inverted triads, triads, seventh chords
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns, one hand moving while the other holds, hands in different rhythms
Sections
The piece in 11 sections, cut where its music breaks, each read at its own level. Tap one to loop it on the stand until it's clean, then the next.
- Bars 1–8level 4 of 7
- Bars 9–12played twicelevel 4 of 7
- Bars 13–20level 4 of 7
- Bars 21–28level 4 of 7
- Bars 29–36level 4 of 7
- Bars 37–44level 4 of 7
- Bars 45–52played twicelevel 4 of 7
- Bars 53–60played twicelevel 4 of 7
- Bars 61–68played twicelevel 4 of 7
- Bars 69–76played twicelevel 5 of 7, the hardest
- Bars 77–84played twicelevel 4 of 7
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Score from a copy shared on MuseScore (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Maurice Abrahams died in 1931. Credits
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