Learn Oh! Susanna 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 Oh! Susanna on the glass harp
A bouncy, syncopated campfire romp — quick eighth notes keep you honest. Stephen Foster, 1848.
- Key
- C major
- Time
- 2/4
- Tempo
- 120 BPM
- Notes
- 51
- Level
- Medium
- 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.
- C4ID4comeE4fromG4Al-G4a-A4ba-G4maE4withC4myD4ban-E4jo
- D4onC4myD4knee· C4I'mD4goin'E4toG4Lou-G4si-A4an-G4a
- E4myC4trueD4loveE4forD4toC4see· F4Oh!F4Su-
- A4san-A4naG4ohE4don'tC4youD4cryE4forD4me
- · C4ID4comeE4fromG4Al-G4a-A4ba-G4maE4withC4myD4ban-E4jo
- E4onD4myC4knee