Prelude in C minor, BWV 847

From The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

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.

The easy version, the melody and left-hand roots at level 5, 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.

Treble clef from G3 to A5, with ledger lines
Bass clef from C2 to E4, with ledger lines
Key signature: 3 flats (E♭ major or C minor)
Accidentals: naturals, flats outside the key
Rhythm: quarter notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, triplets, dotted eighth notes
Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 4ths, 6ths, 5ths, 7ths
Chords: inverted triads
Hands playing together, hands taking turns, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds

The piece in 5 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.

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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750. Credits

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