Learn Silent Night 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 Silent Night on the glass harp
A slow rocking lullaby in six. Let the long notes ring and it sings itself. Franz Xaver Gruber, 1818.
- Key
- C major
- Time
- 6/8
- Tempo
- 84 BPM
- Notes
- 46
- Level
- Medium
- Listen. Press Listen above to hear it at 84 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.
- G4Si-A4 G4lentE4nightG4ho-A4 G4lyE4night
- D5AllD5isB4calmC5allC5isG4bright
- A4RoundA4yonC5vir-B4 A4ginG4mo-A4therG4andE4child
- A4Ho-A4lyC5in-B4fantA4soG4ten-A4derG4andE4mild
- D5SleepD5inF5hea-D5ven-B4lyC5peaceE5Sleep
- C5inG4 E4hea-G4ven-F4lyD4 C4peace