Learn Amazing Grace on the Steelpan
The tenor pan of Trinidad & Tobago, synthesized live in your browser. Strike the chrome — or pick a song and follow the lights.
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Play like a piano: Z X C … for the low octave, Q W E … for the high oneTap a pad to strike it. Low notes sit on the rim, high notes toward the centre.
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How to play Amazing Grace on the steelpan
A lilting hymn in three that climbs to a long, ringing D5. Hymn tune "New Britain", 1829.
- Key
- G major
- Time
- 3/4
- Tempo
- 72 BPM
- Notes
- 34
- Level
- Medium
- Listen. Press Listen above to hear it at 72 BPM. You can slow it down in Settings.
- Play along. Press Play along and the pad to strike 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.
Low notes sit on the rim and high notes toward the centre. Going round the rim, each pad is a fifth above the one before (C, G, D, A …), and the inner ring repeats the same pattern an octave higher.
The notes
Written as note names spelled with flats. A dot (·) is a rest.
- D4A-G4ma-B4zingG4 B4graceA4howG4sweetE4theD4sound
- D4thatG4savedB4aG4 B4wretchA4likeD5meD5IB4once
- G4wasB4 A4lostG4butE4nowD4amD4foundD4wasG4blind
- B4butG4 B4nowA4IG4seeD4 G4