John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (1820–1891)

We Three Kings, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Hopkins wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 144 of the piece's 239 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: 95 of 239
Key: G major
Time: 3/8
Length: 33 bars

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The whole easy version95 notes

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The first 8 bars of We Three Kings, 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 We Three Kings's page.

Score from PDMX (Public Domain Mark 1.0); the composition is public domain: John Henry Hopkins, Jr. died in 1891. Credits