The Little Shepherd, from Children's Corner, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Debussy wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 125 of the piece's 332 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 4 of 7, where the piece as written is level 5.

Level: 4 of 7
As written: Level 5
Notes: 207 of 332
Key: A major
Time: 4/4
Length: 31 bars

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The whole easy version207 notes

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The first 8 bars of The Little Shepherd, from Children's Corner, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 5, and all 4 of its versions are on The Little Shepherd, from Children's Corner's page.

Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Claude Debussy died in 1918. Credits