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Für Elise — melody and bass

Bring both hands together on Beethoven’s famous A minor theme, with sustained left-hand harmony under the right-hand melody.

DevelopingLudwig van Beethoven · Opening theme with harmonic bass · piano both handsPiano · Both hands · A minor · 3/8

72 beats per minute. Changing speed stops playback; press Play to start again.

Try it at the keyboard

  1. Master the right-hand melody on its own before adding the left-hand dotted crotchets.
  2. Play the left-hand A and E bass notes gently so the right-hand melody stays in the foreground.
  3. Notice how the harmony alternates between A minor (home) and E major (leading back to A).

About this score

NotePlayMusic nine-bar teaching excerpt combining the opening right-hand melody with a simplified one-note-per-bar A/E bass line for two-hand coordination.

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1810); source edition typeset by Mutopia Project. Public domain composition and source edition. Teaching arrangement by NotePlayMusic.

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