Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Dykes wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 67 of the piece's 109 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 2 of 7, where the piece as written is level 3.

Level: 2 of 7
As written: Level 3
Notes: 42 of 109
Key: G major
Time: 3/4
Length: 14 bars

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The first 8 bars of Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 3, and all 4 of its versions are on Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee's page.

Score typeset by Steve Dunlop for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: John Bacchus Dykes died in 1876. Credits