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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing ocarina tabs

Mendelssohn’s tune in F: a B♭ in most lines and a climb to high D on “Christ is born”.

Level
Intermediate
Time
4/4
Tempo
100 beats a minute
Length
20 bars
Notes
CDEFGAA♯high Chigh D

The tabs

Read from left to right, as sheet music. Each note sits on the staff, with a picture of the ocarina under it: terracotta holes are covered, and the two small circles are the thumb holes. The note’s name is under the picture. A hollow head is a long note and a filled one a short one; a dot makes a note half as long again. For every fingering in detail, see the fingering chart.

Plays the tune at the ocarina’s own pitch.

CFFEFAAG

The rest of Hark! The Herald Angels Sing is in the app

Ocarina Quest plays the whole song with you, listens while you play and shows which notes were off.

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing is one of the app’s Pro songs.

Coming soon to Google Play

About this song

Origin: Felix Mendelssohn, 1840, adapted by William H. Cummings, 1855

Where it sits on the learning path

You can play this after the unit “B♭ (A♯)” of the app’s course.