Carl Czerny (1791–1857)
The School of Velocity, Op. 299 No. 8
No. 8 of 40 in Czerny's School of Velocity, Op. 299
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.
- As written2470 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand2356 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots1838 notes
- Right-hand melody1730 notes
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 C7, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from C2 to G4, with ledger lines
- No key signature to keep in mind
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 4ths, 5ths, octaves, 6ths
- Chords: inverted triads, triads, seventh chords
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns, moving the hand to a new position
Sections
The piece in 8 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.
- Bars 1–8played twicelevel 3 of 7
- Bars 9–14played twicelevel 4 of 7
- Bars 15–20played twicelevel 4 of 7
- Bars 21–26played twicelevel 4 of 7
- Bars 27–30played twicelevel 4 of 7
- Bars 31–42played twicelevel 4 of 7
- Bars 43–49played twicelevel 3 of 7
- Bars 50–55played twicelevel 3 of 7
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
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