Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Little Prelude in D minor, BWV 926
From the Little Keyboard Book for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
In Easy pieces that sound hard
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 120: the middle speed of the 63 pieces in 3/4 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 written416 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand406 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots309 notes
- Right-hand melody262 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 A4 to B6, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from C2 to E4, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 1 flat (F major or D minor)
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key, flats outside the key, naturals
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes
- Intervals: 3rds (skips), 2nds (steps), 4ths, octaves, 5ths, 6ths
- Chords: inverted triads
- Hands playing together, hands taking turns, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position
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