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Au Clair de la Lune — melody and bass

Play the gentle French folk tune with both hands, supporting the right-hand melody with simple held bass notes.

Next stepsTraditional French melody · Eight-bar melody with bass · piano both handsPiano · Both hands · C major · 4/4

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Try it at the keyboard

  1. Practise the right-hand melody first until the step down to A3 and G3 in bars 6–8 feels natural.
  2. Hold each left-hand semibreve for all four counts while the right hand moves above it.
  3. Play both hands softly and smoothly, as if singing a lullaby.

About this score

Eight-bar C-major teaching arrangement with an original whole-note bass part in C, G and D.

Anonymous 18th-century French folk melody; teaching notation by NotePlayMusic. Public domain traditional melody. Teaching arrangement newly authored by NotePlayMusic.

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