- Rangefifth
- Notes33, 5 different
- ScaleMajor, no accidentals
- Length hereabout 28 s
About When the Saints Go Marching In
An American spiritual of uncertain authorship, in print by the 1890s. In New Orleans it was played slowly on the way to a funeral and fast on the way back, and after Louis Armstrong recorded it in 1938 it became one of the best-known tunes in jazz.
Its opening is three notes climbing to a long fourth one, played three times, and the whole melody stays inside five notes of the scale.
Play When the Saints Go Marching In 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 — it would need G4, which it does not have in any size or key here.
When the Saints Go Marching In letter notes
Written in C major, from C4 to G4, with each note’s number in the scale under it — 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.
When the Saints Go Marching In — letter notes · tonalics.com
Where these notes come from
Traditional American spiritual, published 1896. Public domain.
No lyrics are printed on this page or any other here: these pages are about a melody and how to play it.