For Children No. 18

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.

• As written177 notes
• Melody and a simpler left hand136 notes
• Melody and left-hand roots89 notes
• Right-hand melody66 notes

The easy version, the right-hand melody at level 2, 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 G3 to E6, with ledger lines
• Bass clef from C2 to E4, with ledger lines
• No key signature to keep in mind
• Accidentals: sharps outside the key
• 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), 5ths, 4ths, 3rds (skips), octaves, 6ths
• 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