Nimrod, from the Enigma Variations, easy version

Melody and a simpler left hand

The melody as Elgar wrote it, with each left-hand chord cut to its top and bottom notes. It leaves out 127 of the piece's 500 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 3 of 7, where the piece as written is level 4.

Level: 3 of 7
As written: Level 4
Notes: 373 of 500
Key: E♭ major
Time: 3/4
Length: 44 bars

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The whole easy version373 notes

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The first 8 bars of Nimrod, from the Enigma Variations, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 4, and all 4 of its versions are on Nimrod, from the Enigma Variations's page.

Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Edward Elgar died in 1934. This is an arrangement, and the source doesn’t name its arranger. The composition’s rights don’t cover an arrangement: this one is free to use because its uploader released it into the public domain (CC0 1.0). Credits