When the Saints Go Marching In

When the Saints Go Marching In is a traditional melody dating from around 1896. In Freano it is rated “Easy” and is one of the app's 48 free public-domain pieces.

The app plays it at 116 beats per minute. The melody has 23 notes and takes about 23 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.

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

It also appears in the course as a lesson in “4. Play a piece”, where you play it one note at a time with the key lit up on the screen.

This melody was published in 1896, 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.