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Carl Czerny (1791–1857)

The School of Velocity, Op. 299 No. 10

No. 10 of 40 in Czerny's School of Velocity, Op. 299

Level
4 of 7
Time
6/8
Length
30 bars
Plays in
1 to 2 min

Practise it

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.

The opening bars of The School of Velocity, Op. 299 No. 10
The opening bars

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 written925 notes
  • Melody and a simpler left hand845 notes
  • Melody and left-hand roots178 notes
  • Right-hand melody148 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 D4 to G6, with ledger lines
  • Bass clef from F1 to F4, with ledger lines
  • Key signature: 1 flat (F major or D minor)
  • Accidentals: flats outside the key, naturals
  • Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, triplets, dotted eighth notes
  • Intervals: 3rds (skips), octaves, 4ths, 6ths, 5ths, 2nds (steps)
  • Chords: triads
  • One hand moving while the other holds, hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, hands taking turns, hands in different rhythms

Sections

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.

  1. Bars 1–7level 4 of 7
  2. Bars 8–13level 5 of 7, the hardest
  3. Bars 14–19level 4 of 7
  4. Bars 20–25level 4 of 7
  5. Bars 26–30level 4 of 7

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

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