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Flight of the Bumblebee Violin Sheet Music & Notes

Composer
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Year
1900
Key
Am
Time
2/4
Tempo
120 BPM
Difficulty
Intermediate · ★★★
First note
A5

Flight of the Bumblebee on violin

The full melody, rendered as engraved treble-clef staff you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1900) — public domain.

How to practise this on violin

Flight of the Bumblebee is written in Am and opens on A5, so tune that string true before you draw a bow — on a fretless fingerboard the whole piece rides on where your first finger lands. Play the opening phrase slowly, one clean bow-stroke per note, and watch the pitch feedback rather than your hand: the app hears which notes drifted sharp or flat, which is the one thing a mirror can never show you.

Keep the bow parallel to the bridge and draw from the middle third for an even tone. Set the metronome well under around 120 BPM and don't raise it until you've been graded clean on two takes in a row. When a bar comes back red, loop just that bar — intonation improves fastest on the phrase you keep missing, not on replaying the whole piece from the top. By the numbers, this setting runs 161 notes across 21 bars, from E4 up to A5 in 2/4 time.

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