Shall We Gather at the River, easy version

Right-hand melody

The right hand's melody on its own, every note of the tune as Lowry wrote it. It leaves out 197 of the piece's 267 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: 70 of 267
Key: D major
Time: 4/4
Length: 16 bars

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The whole easy version70 notes

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The first 8 bars of Shall We Gather at the River, 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 Shall We Gather at the River's page.

Score typeset by Steve Dunlop for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain), adapted for Clefsight; the composition is public domain: Robert Lowry died in 1899. Credits