FolkPremium
Greensleeves
Traditional
Simplified arrangement
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Length
- 0:56
- 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
- A minor melody with G♯ and F♯
- Long-short dotted rhythms in 3/4
- A left hand that holds one bass note per bar
Where to put your hands
Right thumb on E above middle C to start; your hand moves up for the high G in the second half. Left hand: low A, G and E.
Tips
- 1Every “long-short” pair is a dotted quarter then an eighth: lean on the long note.
- 2The second half starts on the highest note. Prepare your hand during the long A before it.
Parts of the song
Alas, my loveYou do me wrongGreensleevesWas all my joy