Der Mai ist gekommen (May Has Come)

Justus Wilhelm Lyra · Level 2 (Beginner) · traditional · Piano

A German wandering song: poem by Emanuel Geibel (1835), tune by Justus Wilhelm Lyra (1842). May is here, the trees are budding, it is time to take to the road. An easy arrangement in C major: the right hand plays the tune, the left hand plays a waltz pattern: the bass on the first beat, a two-note chord on the other two.

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How to practise it

• Listen first: the site plays it while the score scrolls.
• Wait mode: the score waits for you at every note, at your own pace.
• Tempo challenge: play in time, with a score and a map of the bars you got right.
• Learn the tune alone by singing it, then the left hand alone: spot the chord changes before putting hands together in Wait mode, then at a reduced tempo.

Source : Arrangement Note after Note d’après la mélodie de J. W. Lyra (1842) · Public Domain