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Greensleeves Ocarina Fingerings

Composer
Traditional
Year
Key
D
Time
3/4
Tempo
76 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
D5

Greensleeves 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 English melody; 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. Greensleeves starts on D5. 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 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 17 notes across 8 bars, from C5 up to B♭5 in 3/4 time.

Also playable on

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 Ocarina reads this 12-hole ocarina fingering under the notation and grades your take on-device, note by note — free on iPhone, no ads, no account.

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