PlaysoloistStringsViolinSongsThe Twelve Days of Christmas
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The Twelve Days of Christmas Violin Sheet Music & Notes
- Composer
- Traditional
- Year
- 1780
- Key
- C
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 100 BPM
- Difficulty
- Beginner · ★
- First note
- G3
The Twelve Days of Christmas 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.
Trad. English, 1780 — public domain (first-verse pattern).
How to practise this on violin
The Twelve Days of Christmas is written in C and opens on G3, 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 100 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 42 notes across 9 bars, from G3 up to A4 in 4/4 time.
Also playable on
The same melody is graded across 6 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the The Twelve Days of Christmas cross-instrument hub.
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