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Brahms’s Lullaby — melody and bass

Combine Brahms’s soothing 3/4 lullaby melody with dotted-minim bass notes in the left hand.

Next stepsJohannes Brahms · Opening eight bars with bass · piano both handsPiano · Both hands · C major · 3/4

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Try it at the keyboard

  1. Each left-hand note has a dot, meaning it lasts for all three beats of the 3/4 bar.
  2. Practise the right-hand leaps in bars 3–6 on their own before adding the bass.
  3. Let the final bar ring for a full three counts.

About this score

Transposed to C major with an original dotted-minim C/G bass line supporting the eight-bar melody.

Composed by Johannes Brahms (1868); simplified C-major teaching arrangement by NotePlayMusic. Public domain composition (published 1868). Teaching arrangement by NotePlayMusic.

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