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Amazing Grace Ocarina Fingerings
- Composer
- Traditional
- Year
- —
- Key
- C
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 66 BPM
- Difficulty
- Easy · ★★
- First note
- G5
Amazing Grace on ocarina
The phrase Soloist Ocarina’s lesson teaches — an excerpt of the melody, not the full-length arrangement — rendered as 12-hole ocarina fingering you can read on screen or print for the stand, free.
Traditional American melody “New Britain”; hymn words by John Newton, 1779 — public domain.
How to practise this on ocarina
Each diagram is your ocarina seen from the front — a filled hole is covered, the two small marks on the left are the subholes, and the dashed pair are the thumb holes on the back. Amazing Grace starts on G5. Because an ocarina's pitch comes from the total open hole area, your breath pressure is your tuning: push harder and the note sharpens, ease off and it flattens.
Climb the fingerings in the order shown instead of hunting for holes, and keep your air steady so the pitch sits still — the app will tell you the moment a note drifts. Take it at around 66 BPM to begin, walking slowly through the phrase, and only lift the tempo once two takes in a row come back clean. By the numbers, this setting runs 10 notes across 4 bars, from G5 up to E6 in 4/4 time.
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The same melody is graded across 10 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the Amazing Grace cross-instrument hub.
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