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Greensleeves Cello Sheet Music (Bass Clef)

Composer
Traditional
Year
Key
Am
Time
3/4
Tempo
72 BPM
Difficulty
Easy · ★★
First note
A3

Greensleeves on cello

The phrase Soloist Cello’s lesson teaches — an excerpt of the melody, not the full-length arrangement — rendered as engraved bass-clef staff you can read on screen or print for the stand, free.

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Traditional English melody; public domain.

In Soloist Cello this study switches to tenor clef where the line climbs above E4; on this page it stays in bass clef with ledger lines — the register every cellist reads first.

How to practise this on cello

This is bass clef — the cello's home register. The bottom line is G2, your open G string, and anything sitting two ledger lines below the staff is your open C. Greensleeves is in Am and opens on A3; tune carefully to the drone before you draw a bow, because on a fretless fingerboard every note in the piece rides on where that first finger lands. Play the opening phrase one bow-stroke per note and watch the pitch feedback rather than your hand — the app hears which notes drifted, which no mirror can show you.

Keep the bow parallel to the bridge and let arm weight, not pressure, make the tone. Set the metronome well under around 72 BPM and loop the bar that your take review marks red. Where the line shifts position, ghost the slide silently — finger the shift without bowing it — until the distance is in your arm, then bow it. By the numbers, this setting runs 10 notes across 4 bars, from G3 up to F4 in 3/4 time.

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The same melody is graded across 10 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Greensleeves cross-instrument hub.

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Soloist Cello reads this engraved bass-clef staff under the notation and grades your take on-device, note by note — free on iPhone, no ads, no account.

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