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God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as written, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 165 of the piece's 252 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: 87 of 252
Key: E minor
Time: 2/2
Length: 20 bars

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The whole easy version87 notes

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The first 8 bars of God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, 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 God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen's page.

Score typed for Clefsight from Novello, Ewer and Co., London, 1890, ed. Henry Ramsden Bramley (words) and John Stainer (music) (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is a traditional tune, and so is John Stainer’s arrangement. Credits