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Try it at the keyboard
- Learn the right-hand melody on its own first.
- Find C3, F2 and G2 for the bass; hold each bass note for four beats.
- Start slowly with both hands together on the first beat of each bar.
About this score
Our 12-bar arrangement adds a simple C/F/G bass exercise, one held note per bar. The bass is not taken from the historical source. No modern arrangement or song lyrics are reproduced.
Anonymous French melody; the historical manuscript is dated 1770-1790 and held by the Bibliotheque nationale de France. The source is marked public domain on Wikimedia Commons. This teaching notation and bass exercise are newly authored by NotePlayMusic.