Danny Boy
Frederic Weatherly's words (1913) to the Londonderry Air
- Level
- 4 of 7
- Key signature
- 3 flats
- Time
- 4/4
- Length
- 30 bars
- Plays in
- 1 to 2 min
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 written578 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand363 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots200 notes
- Right-hand melody170 notes
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 G3 to C6, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from C2 to B3, with ledger lines
- Key signature: 3 flats (E♭ major or C minor)
- Accidentals: naturals, flats outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, notes held across the beat
- Intervals: 5ths, 4ths, 2nds (steps), octaves, 7ths, 6ths
- Chords: inverted triads, triads, seventh chords
- Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns, hands in different rhythms
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Score from PDMX (CC0 1.0); the composition is a traditional tune. This is an arrangement, and the source doesn’t name its arranger. The composition’s rights don’t cover an arrangement: this one is free to use because its uploader released it into the public domain (CC0 1.0). Credits