Amazing Grace on Piano — Letter Notes & Play Online

Amazing Grace — Piano Letter Notes

Amazing Grace (the first half of the verse), written out for the piano as easy letter notes for the right hand, with do-re-mi under every note and set up above on the 61 keys. Press Play to hear it, Practice to learn it one note at a time — the piano waits for you — or Play along to keep time with it.

Notes16, 6 pitches
RangeG4–G5
Key hereC major
Tempo76 bpm · about 17 s
LevelIntermediate

Can a piano play Amazing Grace?

Yes — every size on this page plays it. The check is made note by note against what each one can actually sound. Where the tune does not fit as the library writes it, another key or octave is tried, and the table says which; where nothing fits, it names the notes that are missing.

49 keys✓ Plays as writtenIn C major, G4–G5 · load it
61 keys✓ Plays as writtenIn C major, G4–G5 · loaded above
88 keys✓ Plays as writtenIn C major, G4–G5 · load it

Amazing Grace: piano letter notes

The large line is the key’s letter; a dot over it is the octave above middle C’s, a dot under it the octave below; the small line under it is the same note in do-re-mi. A dash holds the note another beat, an underline is half a beat, and a dot beside a note makes it half as long again. Each line is one phrase.

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Amazing Grace — piano letter notes (61 keys) · tonalics.com

GSolC•Do–E•MiC•DoE•Mi–D•ReC•Do–

ALaGSol–GSolC•Do–E•MiC•DoE•Mi–D•ReG•Sol––

Amazing Grace letter notes as text

The same notes as plain text, one phrase to a line, to copy into a message or a document. A letter on its own is in the octave that starts on the C above middle C (C5). A letter with a number is in that numbered octave: B4 is the B just below the C above middle C. A comma marks a long note.

G4 C E C E D C
A4 G4 G4 C E C E D G

Is there a both-hands version?

Not of Amazing Grace, on this page. The left hand here is made by rule — three chords, one hand position — and it is only offered where that rule can be checked against a published harmonisation and agrees with it on most bars. This melody has no barred score in its sources to hang the chords on. The right hand above is the whole tune.

The 6 notes it uses

Lowest to highest, with how many times each is played. Learn these 6 and you can play the whole tune.

GSol×3
ALa×1
C•Do×5
D•Re×2
E•Mi×4
G•Sol×1

What to expect on a piano

It runs from G4 to G5, an octave, using 6 different notes. That leaves 31 semitones unused below and 17 above.
33% of its moves are a step or a repeated note. The widest is a fourth, G4 to C5, at note 2.
It is played on the white keys only.
It covers 8 white keys, more than the five a hand rests on, so the right hand has to move or stretch — by a key or two.

About the tune

The words are John Newton’s, written in England in the 1770s; the tune they are sung to is an American folk melody called “New Britain”, joined to them by William Walker in his shape-note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1835.

Traditional; "New Britain" melody, published 1835. Public domain. The first half of the verse. More about Amazing Grace →

Amazing Grace on other instruments

The same melody, in each instrument’s own notation. It is not offered for the handpan or ocarina, which do not have the notes.

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