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Londonderry Air Motif Ocarina Fingerings
- Composer
- Traditional
- Year
- —
- Key
- D
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 68 BPM
- Difficulty
- Advanced · ★★★★
- First note
- D5
Londonderry Air Motif on ocarina
The full melody, rendered as 12-hole ocarina fingering you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.
Traditional Irish air, 19th century; public domain. The Londonderry Air melody only; the later ‘Danny Boy’ lyric is not part of this lesson.
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. Londonderry Air Motif 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 68 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 12 notes across 4 bars, from D5 up to D6 in 4/4 time.
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