Learn Ode to Joy 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.

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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100 BPM
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How to play Ode to Joy on the glass harp

Almost entirely stepwise — the melody everyone can hum. Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, 1824.

Key
C major
Time
4/4
Tempo
100 BPM
Notes
30
Level
Easy
  1. Listen. Press Listen above to hear it at 100 BPM. You can slow it down in Settings.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

  1. E4Joy-E4ful,F4joy-G4ful,G4weF4a-E4doreD4theeC4GodC4ofD4glo-E4ry,E4LordD4ofD4love
  2. E4HeartsE4un-F4foldG4likeG4flowersF4be-E4foreD4theeC4op-C4eningD4toE4theD4sunC4a-C4bove