Public-domain song
Yankee Doodle
- Key signature
- No sharps or flats
- Time signature
- 2/4
- Origin
- A marching tune of disputed origin, in print by the 1770s.
Public domain: a traditional tune, first published in 1775.
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, 14 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 100
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Range
- G4 to E5
- Note values
- 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, 55 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 116
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Range
- E4 to F5
- Note values
- quarter notes, dotted eighth notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes
Earn a star on the first part to open the complete song.
Lessons that use this song
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