Study for the Fifth Finger, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Germer wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 40 of the piece's 274 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: 234 of 274
Key: G major
Time: 4/4
Length: 16 bars

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The whole easy version234 notes

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The first 8 bars of Study for the Fifth Finger, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 4, and all 3 of its versions are on Study for the Fifth Finger's page.

Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Heinrich Germer died in 1913. Credits