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Au Clair de la Lune — right-hand melody

One of the easiest classic piano tunes: an eight-bar French folk melody using just the first three notes of C major in its opening phrase.

First notesTraditional French melody · Eight-bar folk melody in C major · piano one handPiano · One hand · C major · 4/4

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Try it at the keyboard

  1. Place your right thumb on middle C, index finger on D, and middle finger on E.
  2. Bars 1–2 and bars 3–4 are identical — learn the first two bars and you already know half the piece.
  3. Count all four beats on the final semibreve before lifting your hand.

About this score

Eight-bar C-major teaching arrangement covering the opening verse and contrasting bridge phrase.

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

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