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We Three Kings of Orient Are Violin Sheet Music & Notes
- Composer
- John Henry Hopkins Jr.
- Year
- 1863
- Key
- Am
- Time
- 6/8
- Tempo
- 144 BPM
- Difficulty
- Easy · ★★
- First note
- E4
We Three Kings of Orient Are 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.
John Henry Hopkins Jr., 1863 — public domain.
How to practise this on violin
We Three Kings of Orient Are is written in Am and opens on E4, 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 144 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 62 notes across 16 bars, from G3 up to G4 in 6/8 time.
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The same melody is graded across 6 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the We Three Kings of Orient Are cross-instrument hub.
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