Here are 12 Public Domain piano songs as adapted from
The Public Domain Songbook by David Berger and Chuck
Israel. Follow along in their book to learn to read music!
Many new cool features including note for note playing
with the ability to go backwards to play notes again.
Note names shown as on the score and as played in a
key signature.
Songs with lyrics:
I’m Alway Chasing Rainbows
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Low Bridge Everybody Down
Oh! Danny Boy
Pack Up Your Trouble in Yoy Kit Bag
Nearer My God to Thee
Columbia the Gem of the Ocean
Look for the Silver Lining
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Greensleeves
It’s a Long Way to Tipperary
Suitable for a sing along.
This program play a song.
You can change the key.
It also plays the song in random keys (there are 12 major keys)
so you can hear the differences the keys make.
Much music can be made of the twelve notes of the scale.
This program does this:
Shows a scale of notes.
Plays the notes one by one with its note lit up in red.
The purpose of this program:
Familiarizes you with the notes and their pitches.
You should be able to recognize which note is being played.
This will make it so you can read music from notes on a scale.
WHY AM I WRITING MUSIC PROGRAMS? SKITTONE 2023
Many people sing and hum; however; the musical score is a barrier
to many. Have you even looked at a sheet of music and tried to read it?
What I intend to do is make programs to aid in playing the piano:
Which key to press to make what sound. I think of it like learning touch
typing. There is a good dose of rote learning in it. The kind of thing a
computer can aid in. Sight reading of notes; playing are composing are
goals
On the way; I will have to teach the computer to read music too. The
computer must have sounds that come out in response to some sort of notation system that is computer like.
In this program, you pick the notes you hear.
The program plays one of these notes.
You pick which note was played.
The answer is give.
It has auto play which plays notes automatically.
This is ear training; you will gain the ability to distinguish
what note is being played.
Because you can pick notes further apart, it is easier.
You may want to pick notes one octave apart, etc.
12 more great simple piano songs.
program uses wav files from a Steinway piano.
Key and octave changes possible.
Continuous play.
Original lyrics with bouncing ball.
Learn about the major scales.
Program code in BBC included.
Easy and fun.
Songs included:
AFTER YOU’VE GONE
ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND
APRIL SHOWERS
THE BAND PLAYED ON
BILL BAILEY, WON’T YOU PLEASE COME HOME
BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
BY THE BEAUTIFUL SEA
THE BOWERY
BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON
CAROLINA IN THE MORNING
CHICAGO (THAT TODDLIN’ TOWN)
YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU