Air (Orchestral Suite No. 3)

Air (Orchestral Suite No. 3) is a piece by Bach, first published in 1717. In Freano it is rated “Medium” and is one of the app's 48 free public-domain pieces.

The app plays it at 60 beats per minute. The melody has 12 notes and takes about 32 seconds at full speed, so you can play it through several times in one short practice session.

It uses 5 different keys, from G4 to D5 — a span of 7 semitones.

Everything is on the white keys, which makes it a good choice in your first weeks.

The fastest notes are quarter notes.

In Freano it is a right-hand melody; there is no left-hand part for it yet.

This melody was published in 1717, more than a hundred years ago, and is in the public domain. Freano only includes music that is at least a century old, enters the melody itself rather than copying anyone's arrangement, and writes its own left-hand parts.