Learn Amazing Grace on the Glass Harp
Musical glasses, as Benjamin Franklin heard them. Press and circle a rim to make a glass sing — faster circles sing louder, several fingers make chords. More water, lower note.
—last glass
Tap for a ting · circle for a song · lift to let it ringHold keys like a piano: Z S X … Q 2 W …Swipe the empty top of the table to reach every glass.
Pick a song to practise, or just make the glasses sing.
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Songs
Settings
100 BPM
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Space listen or stop · Esc stop
How to play Amazing Grace on the glass harp
A lilting hymn in three that climbs to a long, ringing D5. Hymn tune "New Britain", 1829.
- Key
- G major
- Time
- 3/4
- Tempo
- 72 BPM
- Notes
- 34
- Level
- Medium
- Listen. Press Listen above to hear it at 72 BPM. You can slow it down in Settings.
- Play along. Press Play along and the glass to circle lights up. Play it and the next one lights. A wrong note is named, so you know what to change.
- Play it from the notes. Once it feels familiar, play it from the sheet below without the lights.
Press and circle a rim to make it sing. A quick tap only gives a ting, and circling faster makes it louder.
The notes
Written as the note names. A dot (·) is a rest.
- D4A-G4ma-B4zingG4 B4graceA4howG4sweetE4theD4sound
- D4thatG4savedB4aG4 B4wretchA4likeD5meD5IB4once
- G4wasB4 A4lostG4butE4nowD4amD4foundD4wasG4blind
- B4butG4 B4nowA4IG4seeD4 G4