Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Hughes wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 159 of the piece's 232 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: 73 of 232
Key: G major
Time: 4/4
Length: 14 bars

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The whole easy version73 notes

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The first 8 bars of Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah, 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 Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah's page.

Score typeset by Peter Chubb for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: John Hughes died in 1932. Credits