Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Little Prelude in F, BWV 928
From the Little Keyboard Book for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 108: the middle speed of the 85 pieces in 4/4 in the library whose files set one. Its length counts from that.
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 written653 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand533 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots319 notes
- Right-hand melody295 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 E2 to G4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 flat (F major or D minor)
- Accidentals: naturals, flats outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, 7ths
- Chords: inverted triads, triads
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns, hands in different rhythms
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score typeset by Allen Garvin for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750. Credits