Learn Happy Birthday 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 Happy Birthday on the glass harp
Short and useful. The big octave leap on the third "birthday" is the only stretch. Mildred and Patty Hill, "Good Morning to All", 1893.
- Key
- C major
- Time
- 3/4
- Tempo
- 100 BPM
- Notes
- 25
- Level
- Easy
- Listen. Press Listen above to hear it at 100 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.
- G4Hap-G4pyA4birth-G4dayC5toB4youG4Hap-G4pyA4birth-G4dayD5toC5you
- G4Hap-G4pyG5birth-E5dayC5dearB4friendA4 F5Hap-F5pyE5birth-C5dayD5toC5you