First Songs — Level 4
C, F, G, D, or B♭ major
Market Bridge
Your first sixteenths, four inside a single beat — count them even rather than fast. D major arches like the bridge itself, up from A4 to one A5 in the fourth bar and straight back down again.
D Major · 4/4 · A4–A5 · whole notes, quarter notes, paired eighths, sixteenth runs, rests
Windfall
F major reaches its top note almost at once — the A5 in bar two — and then falls the rest of the way, spilling into four sixteenths on a beat until it touches C4, a ledger line below the staff, for exactly one quarter.
F Major · 4/4 · C4–A5 · whole notes, quarter notes, paired eighths, sixteenth runs, rests
Copper Kettle
The kettle simmers for five bars in a tight band between B♭4 and F5 before it boils over to a single A5 — roll the half-hole for every E♭5 on the way, and let the sixteenths stay even instead of hurrying.
B♭ Major · 4/4 · B♭4–A5 · whole notes, quarter notes, paired eighths, sixteenth runs, rests
Long Ladder
A climb rung by rung in G major from G4: each two-bar phrase reaches higher than the one before it, the four-sixteenth group is the stretch for the next rung, and the top note — a single A5 — waits until bar seven.
G Major · 4/4 · G4–A5 · whole notes, quarter notes, paired eighths, sixteenth runs, rests
Snowlight
A waltz that falls before it rises — three beats to a bar, sinking to D4 by the third bar, then climbing to a single G5 near the end. Keep the four-sixteenth groups light and even so they drift rather than rush.
C Major · 3/4 · D4–G5 · dotted half notes, half notes, quarter notes, paired eighths, sixteenth runs, rests