Little Prelude in D minor, BWV 940

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 written169 notes
• Melody and a simpler left hand129 notes
• Melody and left-hand roots69 notes
• Right-hand melody59 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 B3 to A5, with ledger lines
• Bass clef from D2 to D4, with ledger lines
• Key signature: 1 flat (F major or D minor)
• Accidentals: flats outside the key, naturals
• Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
• Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 4ths, 6ths, 5ths, octaves
• One hand moving while the other holds, hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, hands in different rhythms, hands taking turns