Public-domain song
Jingle Bells
- Key signature
- No sharps or flats
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Origin
- The whole chorus, as it is sung today; Part 1 is its opening phrase. The song was published in 1857 as “One Horse Open Sleigh”.
Public domain: by James Lord Pierpont, who died in 1893; first published in 1857.
Written out here note by note as a melody only: no lyrics and no accompaniment.
The two parts
Part 1
The phrase people know, short enough to learn in a sitting.
- Length
- 4 bars, 11 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 104
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Range
- C4 to G4
- Note values
- whole notes, half notes, dotted quarter notes, quarter notes, eighth notes
Part 2: the complete song
The whole tune: its melody once through to its end, without the repeats a performance would add.
- Length
- 16 bars, 51 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 120
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Range
- C4 to G4
- Note values
- whole notes, half notes, dotted quarter notes, quarter notes, eighth notes
Earn a star on the first part to open the complete song.
Lessons that use this song
Each of these lessons opens the first part.