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Aura Lee Motif Ocarina Fingerings
- Composer
- George R. Poulton
- Year
- 1861
- Key
- C
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 76 BPM
- Difficulty
- Intermediate · ★★★
- First note
- G5
Aura Lee Motif on ocarina
An excerpt of the melody, not the full-length tune, rendered as 12-hole ocarina fingering you can read on screen or print for the stand, free.
George R. Poulton, 1861; 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. Aura Lee Motif 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 — a chromatic tuner shows the moment a note drifts. Take it at around 76 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 11 notes across 4 bars, from E5 up to C6 in 4/4 time.
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Play Aura Lee in Ocarina Studio — graded note by note.
Ocarina Studio's song library has its own version of Aura Lee, included with Ocarina Studio Pro. Play along with the 12-hole fingering on screen and get an on-device verdict on every note of your take. No ads, no account.
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