- Rangefifth
- Notes28, 4 different
- ScaleNatural minor
- Length hereabout 26 s
About Sakura Sakura
A Japanese melody from the Edo period, known as a beginnerβs piece for the koto before it was published in the 1880s in a collection for teaching that instrument. It is the tune most often used abroad to stand for Japan.
It is built on a five-note scale with two half-steps in it, which gives it the sound Western ears hear as minor; written against a major scale it lives on the sixth, the seventh, the tonic and the fourth.
Play Sakura Sakura on your instrument
26 of the 27 playable instruments here have every note it needs. 26 play it where the library writes it; the rest move it to another key or octave, and each page says which. Every page has the instrument itself, with the song loaded, above the notes.
- Kalimba tabs
- Piano letter notes
- Mbira tabs
- Handpan tabs
- Oud notes
- Violin notes
- Cello notes
- Erhu notes
- Dulcimer tab
- Xylophone letter notes
- Marimba letter notes
- Glockenspiel letter notes
- Steel Drum letter notes
- Ocarina notes
- Harmonica tabs
- Trumpet notes
- Clarinet notes
- Saxophone notes
- Flute notes
- Recorder notes
- Tuba notes
- Euphonium notes
- Trombone notes
- Accordion letter notes
- Harp letter notes
- Lyre tabs
Instruments that cannot play it
- Guzheng β it would need G4, Cβ―5, which it does not have in any size or key here.
Sakura Sakura letter notes
Written in A minor, from F4 to C5, with each noteβs number in the scale under it β the form that transfers to any instrument. A dash holds a note another beat, an underline is half a beat, and each line is one phrase.
Sakura Sakura (γγγγγγ) β letter notes Β· tonalics.com
Where these notes come from
Japanese traditional, Edo period; first published in the 1880s. Public domain.
No lyrics are printed on this page or any other here: these pages are about a melody and how to play it.