Learn Frère Jacques (Are You Sleeping?) 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 Frère Jacques (Are You Sleeping?) on the glass harp
Every phrase plays twice, so you learn it in half the time. It works as a round, too. French nursery round, 18th century.
- Key
- C major
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 108 BPM
- Notes
- 32
- Level
- Easy
- Listen. Press Listen above to hear it at 108 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.
- C5AreD5youE5sleep-C5ingC5areD5youE5sleep-C5ingE5Bro-F5therG5JohnE5Bro-F5therG5John
- G5Morn-A5ingG5bellsF5areE5ring-C5ingG5morn-A5ingG5bellsF5areE5ring-C5ingC5DingG4dangC5dongC5dingG4dangC5dong