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Molly Malone (Cockles and Mussels) Piano Sheet Music & Notes

Composer
Traditional
Year
Key
C
Time
3/4
Tempo
116 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
C5

Molly Malone (Cockles and Mussels) 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.

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Trad. Irish, 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. Molly Malone (Cockles and Mussels) is in C; find the first note (C5) 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 116 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 59 right-hand notes over 28 left-hand notes across 26 bars, the right hand from B4 up to A5 and the left hand reaching down to G2 in 3/4 time.

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