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Für Elise
Ludwig van Beethoven
Simplified excerpt · opening theme
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Length
- 0:29
- Key
- A minor
Ready to play?
Watch it once, then it’s your turn. Notes fall toward the keys, and the song waits for you until you’re ready to keep time.
- Speed 1 to 10
- Loop any part
- Right, left or both hands
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How to learn this song
What you’ll learn
- The famous rocking E–D♯ figure
- Passing the melody between hands
- A brighter middle section in C major
Where to put your hands
Right hand starts high: finger 4 on the E in the top space of the treble staff, 3 on the D♯ just below it. Left hand plays rolling A minor and E major shapes low down.
Tips
- 1Keep the E–D♯ rocking light and even, like a gentle sigh.
- 2Each left-hand arpeggio flows straight into the right hand, so it sounds like one hand.
Parts of the song
ThemeMiddleTheme returns