Learn Scarborough Fair 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
—
Songs
Settings
100 BPM
singingplay this next
Space listen or stop · Esc stop
How to play Scarborough Fair on the glass harp
An eerie ballad in true Dorian mode — slow, floating, and modal. English ballad, traditional.
- Key
- E Dorian
- Time
- 3/4
- Tempo
- 96 BPM
- Notes
- 50
- Level
- Medium
- Listen. Press Listen above to hear it at 96 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.
- E4doE4doB4solA4faB4solC♯5laB4solA4faG4me
- E4doE4doD4teE4do· E4doE4doB4solA4faB4sol
- C♯5laB4solA4faG4meE4doF♯4reG4meF♯4reE4do
- D4te· D4teG4meG4meA4faG4meF♯4reE4do
- F♯4reB4solA4faB4sol· E5doB4solA4faB4solC♯5la
- B4solA4faG4meE4doF♯4reE4do