Symphony No. 5 — Fate motif

Symphony No. 5 — Fate motif is a piece by Beethoven, first published in 1808. In Freano it is rated “Easy” and is one of the app's 48 free public-domain pieces.

The app plays it at 108 beats per minute. The melody has 16 notes and takes about 11 seconds at full speed, so you can play it through several times in one short practice session.

It uses 4 different keys, from D4 to G4 — a span of 5 semitones.

It brings in the black keys D#, which makes it a good next step after the white-key pieces.

The fastest notes are eighth notes.

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

This melody was published in 1808, 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.