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Frere Jacques - melody and bass

Play the eight-bar tune over a steady left-hand C, holding the bass through each bar.

Next stepsTraditional French round · Melody with original held-bass exercise - piano both handsPiano · Both hands · C major · 4/4

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Try it at the keyboard

  1. Learn the right-hand melody before adding the bass.
  2. Play C3 with your left hand at each bar line and hold it for four beats.
  3. Keep holding the bass through the quicker right-hand notes in bars 5 and 6.

About this score

Our single-melody arrangement adds one held C per bar as a left-hand coordination exercise. This bass is not from the reference notation. The tune is not performed as a round; no lyrics or modern accompaniment are reproduced.

Traditional French melody; reference notation by Wikimedia contributor Mysid. Mysid's reference notation is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. The bass exercise is newly authored by NotePlayMusic.

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