Ode to Joy
This is Beethoven's tune from his Ninth Symphony. It has a dotted rhythm in bars 4 and 8.
- A dotted note is one and a half beats long. The short note after it is half a beat.
- Count “1, 2, 3-and, 4” for those bars.
- Left hand changes on the first beat of each bar.
Notes as text
- Bar 1
Right hand: E4, finger 3, 1 beat. E4, finger 3, 1 beat. F4, finger 4, 1 beat. G4, finger 5, 1 beat.
Left hand: C3, finger 5, 4 beats.
- Bar 2
Right hand: G4, finger 5, 1 beat. F4, finger 4, 1 beat. E4, finger 3, 1 beat. D4, finger 2, 1 beat.
Left hand: G3, finger 1, 4 beats.
- Bar 3
Right hand: Middle C, finger 1, 1 beat. Middle C, finger 1, 1 beat. D4, finger 2, 1 beat. E4, finger 3, 1 beat.
Left hand: C3, finger 5, 4 beats.
- Bar 4
Right hand: E4, finger 3, 1 and a half beats. D4, finger 2, half a beat. D4, finger 2, 2 beats.
Left hand: G3, finger 1, 4 beats.
- Bar 5
Right hand: E4, finger 3, 1 beat. E4, finger 3, 1 beat. F4, finger 4, 1 beat. G4, finger 5, 1 beat.
Left hand: C3, finger 5, 4 beats.
- Bar 6
Right hand: G4, finger 5, 1 beat. F4, finger 4, 1 beat. E4, finger 3, 1 beat. D4, finger 2, 1 beat.
Left hand: G3, finger 1, 4 beats.
- Bar 7
Right hand: Middle C, finger 1, 1 beat. Middle C, finger 1, 1 beat. D4, finger 2, 1 beat. E4, finger 3, 1 beat.
Left hand: C3, finger 5, 4 beats.
- Bar 8
Right hand: D4, finger 2, 1 and a half beats. Middle C, finger 1, half a beat. Middle C, finger 1, 2 beats.
Left hand: G3, finger 1, 2 beats. C3, finger 5, 2 beats.