Scarborough Fair
The English ballad, with fingering
- Level
- 3 of 7
- Key signature
- no sharps or flats
- Time
- 3/4
- Length
- 36 bars
- Plays in
- 1 to 2 min
No speed is printed on this score, so Clefsight plays it at quarter note = 120: the middle speed of the 65 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 written178 notes
- Melody and left-hand roots106 notes
- Right-hand melody70 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 D4 to E5
- Bass clef from D3 to D4, with ledger lines
- No key signature to keep in mind
- Accidentals: sharps outside the key
- Rhythm: quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, dotted half notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes
- Intervals: 3rds (skips), 2nds (steps), 5ths, 4ths, 6ths, octaves
- Hands playing together, one hand moving while the other holds, moving the hand to a new position, 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. 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