Pomp and Circumstance

Pomp and Circumstance is a piece by Elgar, first published in 1901. In Freano it is rated “Medium” and is one of the app's 48 free public-domain pieces.

The app plays it at 84 beats per minute. The melody has 13 notes and takes about 20 seconds at full speed, so you can play it through several times in one short practice session.

It uses 8 different keys, from C4 to C5 — a span of 12 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 1901, 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.