Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns's song (1788) in John Kilpatrick's four-part setting
- Level
- 3 of 7
- Key signature
- no sharps or flats
- Time
- 4/4
- Length
- 17 bars
- Plays in
- about 1 min
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 108: the middle speed of the 91 pieces in 4/4 in the library whose files set one. Its length counts from that.
Plays on a MIDI keyboard in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet, or on the keys on screen without one.
Versions
Each easier version only leaves notes out and adds none, so every note in it is the piece's own. Print any of them free.
- As written208 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand161 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots73 notes
- Right-hand melody57 notes
The easy version, the melody and left-hand roots at level 2, engraved on its own page.
To practise it on paper: a practice chart for this piece, a week of steps from each hand alone to full tempo, with their speeds.
What it asks of you
- Treble clef from A3 to F5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from F2 to D4, with ledger lines
- No key signature to keep in mind
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, notes held across the beat
- Intervals: 5ths, 4ths, octaves, 6ths, 10ths, 9ths
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands in different rhythms, hands taking turns
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is a traditional tune, and so is John Kilpatrick’s arrangement. Credits