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Waltzing Matilda Piano Sheet Music & Notes

Composer
Marie Cowan
Year
1903
Key
C
Time
4/4
Tempo
104 BPM
Difficulty
Easy · ★★
First note
C5

Waltzing Matilda 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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Marie Cowan after Christina Macpherson, 1903; words A. B. Paterson — 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. Waltzing Matilda 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 104 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 91 right-hand notes over 27 left-hand notes across 17 bars, the right hand from G4 up to C6 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 Waltzing Matilda cross-instrument hub.

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