Deck the Halls

Deck the Halls is a traditional melody dating from around 1862. In Freano it is rated “Easy” and is one of the app's 48 free public-domain pieces.

The app plays it at 112 beats per minute. The melody has 28 notes and takes about 16 seconds at full speed, so you can play it through several times in one short practice session.

It uses 5 different keys, from C4 to G4 — 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.

It comes with a left-hand part in a block chords pattern that we wrote ourselves. Learn the right hand first, then the left, then put them together — the piece waits until you press both keys.

This melody was published in 1862, 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.