Frère Jacques
The French round, Are You Sleeping?, with the left hand coming in two bars later as the second voice
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 110: the middle speed of the 99 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 written52 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots38 notes
- Right-hand melody32 notes
Its notes with letter names: the sheet music with each note's letter under it, and a drill of the notes it uses.
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 B4, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from D3 to A3
- Key signature: 2 sharps (D major or B minor)
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, eighth notes
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 4ths, 5ths
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, hands taking turns, moving the hand to a new position
What stands between you and this piece
Clefsight compares the notes of this piece with what you already read.
Score from PDMX (Public Domain Mark 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 rests on its uploader marking it public domain (Public Domain Mark 1.0). Credits
Community source. A score shared on MuseScore that passed our computer checks; not yet checked bar by bar against a printed edition. How we check