Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Traditionnel (États-Unis) · Level 1 (Novice) · traditional · Piano

An American nursery rhyme published in 1852, often sung as a four-part round: “life is but a dream”. An easy arrangement in C major: the right hand plays the tune, the left hand only plays the bass of each chord, one held note at a time.

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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.
• Start with the right hand alone in Wait mode: the tune lies almost entirely under the five fingers, with no shifting. Then add the left hand, which only changes note with the chord. The eighth-note groups of bar 5 come down in steps: keep each group of three repeated notes even.

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Source : Arrangement Note after Note d’après l’air traditionnel (1852) · Public Domain