Learn Jingle Bells 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.
Choose a songPick a song
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Songs
Settings
100 BPM
singingplay this next
Space listen or stop · Esc stop
How to play Jingle Bells on the glass harp
The chorus everyone knows. Mostly one note played three times, with a jump up for "hey!" James Lord Pierpont, 1857.
- Key
- C major
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 120 BPM
- Notes
- 51
- Level
- Easy
- Listen. Press Listen above to hear it at 120 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.
- E4Jin-E4gleE4bellsE4jin-E4gleE4bellsE4jin-G4gleC4allD4theE4way
- F4OhF4whatF4funF4itF4isE4toE4rideE4inE4aE4one-D4horseD4o-E4penD4sleighG4hey!
- E4Jin-E4gleE4bellsE4jin-E4gleE4bellsE4jin-G4gleC4allD4theE4way
- F4OhF4whatF4funF4itF4isE4toE4rideE4inE4aG4one-G4horseF4o-D4penC4sleigh