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Carl Czerny (1791–1857)

Short Exercise, Op. 821 No. 3

160 Kurze Übungen op. 821

Level
3 of 5
Key signature
no sharps or flats
Time
4/4
Length
8 bars
Plays in
about 1 min

Practise it

Needs a MIDI keyboard and Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer.

The opening bars of Short Exercise, Op. 821 No. 3
The opening bars

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece.

  • As written209 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand135 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots97 notes
  • Right-hand melody89 notes

What it asks of you

  • Treble clef from G3 to C6, with ledger lines
  • No key signature to keep in mind
  • Accidentals: sharps outside the key
  • Rhythm: half notes, whole notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes
  • Intervals: 3rds (skips), 5ths, 2nds (steps), octaves, 7ths, 4ths
  • Chords: inverted triads, triads
  • Hands taking turns, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, hands playing together

What stands between you and this piece

Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.

Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Carl Czerny died in 1857. Credits