How to play Shenandoah on piano
The broad, rolling American river song, three verses in G major, with a soaring leap to high G over a flowing broken-chord left hand. Learn it step by step in your browser: the music waits for you on every note, then you speed it up.
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Works with a MIDI keyboard, the on-screen keys or your computer keyboard.
Level3 of 5
ComposerTraditional American (river shanty)
KeyG major
Time signature4/4
Tempo66 bpm
HandsBoth hands
VersionFull song
AccessPremium
The first notes
Right hand, first bars. The small numbers are finger numbers (1 = thumb, 5 = little finger).
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In the app you see these notes falling onto the keyboard and on sheet music at the same time, with the right key lit up.
How to learn it fast
- Listen first: Listen mode plays the whole piece.
- Learn mode: the music stops and waits until you press the right key, one hand at a time.
- Play mode at 60–70% speed: real-time feedback on every note, early or late.
- Loop the hard bars: the coach finds them for you and speeds them up as you improve.
- Hands together at full speed.
New to piano? This song fits best after Unit 8: Rhythm Power of the free course path.
More songs at level 3
- Brahms' Lullaby Johannes Brahms (Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4)
- Canon in D (Simplified) Johann Pachelbel
- Eine kleine Nachtmusik (1st Theme) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Greensleeves Traditional (English)
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Felix Mendelssohn (1840); words Charles Wesley
- Largo “Goin' Home” (New World Symphony) Antonín Dvořák
- Melody Robert Schumann (Album for the Young, Op. 68 No. 1)
- Minuet in G Christian Petzold (from the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook)
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