Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Traditional · 1917 · Easy

Easy 112 BPM Right hand 1917

Old MacDonald Had a Farm is a traditional melody dating from around 1917. 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 24 notes and takes about 17 seconds at full speed, so you can play it through several times in one short practice session.

It uses 5 different keys, from D4 to B4 — a span of 9 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.

How you learn it in Freano

Notes fall toward the keyboard and the key to press lights up. If you miss, the piece stops and waits — nothing runs away from you. Play at 50, 75 or 100% speed, with the metronome on if you like. The notes you missed are collected into a short exercise you can repeat right away. Use the on-screen keyboard, a microphone next to your piano, or a MIDI keyboard over USB or Bluetooth.

About the music rights

This melody was published in 1917, 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.

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