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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Prelude in A minor, BWV 807

From English Suite No. 2

Level
4 of 7
Time
3/4
Length
164 bars
Plays in
2 to 5 min

Practise it

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.

The opening bars of Prelude in A minor, BWV 807
The opening bars

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 written3057 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand2831 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots1733 notes
  • Right-hand melody1576 notes

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 C6, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from C2 to G4, with ledger lines
  • No key signature to keep in mind
  • Accidentals: sharps outside the key
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
  • Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 5ths, 4ths, 6ths, 7ths
  • Chords: inverted triads, triads
  • Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns, hands in different rhythms

Sections

The piece in 21 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.

  1. Bars 1–8level 4 of 7
  2. Bars 9–16level 4 of 7
  3. Bars 17–24level 5 of 7
  4. Bars 25–32level 4 of 7
  5. Bars 33–40level 5 of 7
  6. Bars 41–48level 5 of 7
  7. Bars 49–56level 4 of 7
  8. Bars 57–64level 5 of 7
  9. Bars 65–72level 5 of 7
  10. Bars 73–80level 4 of 7
  11. Bars 81–88level 5 of 7
  12. Bars 89–96level 5 of 7
  13. Bars 97–104level 3 of 7
  14. Bars 105–112level 4 of 7
  15. Bars 113–120level 4 of 7
  16. Bars 121–128level 5 of 7
  17. Bars 129–136level 4 of 7
  18. Bars 137–144level 4 of 7
  19. Bars 145–152level 5 of 7
  20. Bars 153–160level 4 of 7
  21. Bars 161–164level 4 of 7

What stands between you and this piece

Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.

Score from a copy shared on MuseScore (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750. Credits

Two sources agree. Two copies made by different people were compared bar by bar; the 11 bars where they differed were settled against the scan. Only those bars were looked up in a printed edition, J. S. Bach, English Suites for the Piano, Book I, after the edition of Karl Czerny (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics vol. 17, G. Schirmer, New York, 1896); the rest hasn't been compared with it yet. How we check Heard a wrong note? Tell us

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