PlaysoloistKeys & ReedPianoSongsI'll Tell Me Ma
piano song · Keys & Reed
I'll Tell Me Ma Piano Sheet Music & Notes
- Composer
- Traditional
- Year
- —
- Key
- G
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 132 BPM
- Difficulty
- Beginner · ★
- First note
- B4
I'll Tell Me Ma on piano
The full melody, rendered as engraved grand-staff notation (both hands) you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.
Trad. Irish children's song, 19th c. — public domain.
How to practise this on piano
Read the grand staff the way your hands divide it: the top staff is your right hand, the bottom staff your left — always by hand, never by pitch. I'll Tell Me Ma is in G; find the first note (B4) and anchor your right-hand thumb near it before you play anything. Learn the hands separately first: right hand alone until it grades clean, then the left alone, then together at half tempo — the app hears exactly which hand drifted, which is the thing your own ear glosses over.
Keep your eyes on the score, not the keys; your hands learn the geography faster than you expect. Set the metronome well under around 132 BPM and only raise it after two clean takes. When hands-together breaks down, don't start over — drop back to hands-separate for the one bar your take review marks, rebuild it, and splice it back in. By the numbers, this arrangement runs 42 right-hand notes over 12 left-hand notes across 8 bars, the right hand from G4 up to D5 and the left hand reaching down to G2 in 4/4 time.
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The same melody is graded across 6 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the I'll Tell Me Ma cross-instrument hub.
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