Lavender's Blue
The English folk song (Lavender's blue, dilly dilly), arranged by Camille Blecher
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 120: the middle speed of the 69 pieces in 3/4 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 written225 notes
- Melody and a simpler left hand216 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots138 notes
- Right-hand melody110 notes
Its notes with letter names: the sheet music with each note's letter under it, and a drill of the notes it uses.
The easy version, the melody and a simpler left hand 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 C4 to A5, with ledger lines
- Bass clef from F2 to G4, 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
- Intervals: 2nds (steps), 4ths, 5ths, 3rds (skips), 6ths, octaves
- Chords: inverted triads
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position
Sections
The piece in 3 sections, cut where its music breaks, each read at its own level. Tap one to loop it on the stand until it's clean, then the next.
- Bars 1–8level 3 of 7, the hardest
- Bars 9–16played twicelevel 2 of 7
- Bars 17–20level 2 of 7
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, and so is Camille Blecher’s arrangement. 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