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Brahms’s Lullaby — melody and bass

Combine Brahms’s complete 16-bar 3/4 lullaby melody with dotted-minim bass notes in the left hand.

Next stepsJohannes Brahms · Complete 16-bar lullaby with bass · piano both handsPiano · Both hands · C major · 3/4

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

Composed by Johannes Brahms (1868); simplified C-major teaching arrangement by NotePlayMusic. Public domain composition (published 1868). Teaching arrangement by NotePlayMusic. · www.noteplaymusic.com

Try it at the keyboard

  1. Each left-hand note has a dot, meaning it lasts for all three beats of the 3/4 bar.
  2. Practise the right-hand octave leaps in bars 9 and 13 on their own before adding the bass.
  3. Let the final bar ring for a full three counts.

About this score

Transposed to C major with an original dotted-minim C/F/G bass line supporting the complete 16-bar verse.

Composed by Johannes Brahms (1868); simplified C-major teaching arrangement by NotePlayMusic. Public domain composition (published 1868). Teaching arrangement by NotePlayMusic.

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