Public-domain song
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
- Key signature
- 1 sharp: F♯
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Origin
- A folk song printed in "Tommy's Tunes" (1917), with earlier variants.
Public domain: a traditional tune, first published in 1917.
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, 12 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 95
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Range
- D4 to B4
- Note values
- whole notes, half notes, quarter 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, 59 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 110
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Range
- D4 to B4
- Note values
- whole notes, dotted half notes, half 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.