Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Hastings wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 107 of the piece's 162 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: 55 of 162
Key: B♭ major
Time: 6/4
Length: 13 bars

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The first 8 bars of Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me, 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 Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me's page.

Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is public domain: Thomas Hastings died in 1872. Credits