Home on the Range
Folk · 1800s · Poem “My Western Home” by Dr. Brewster Higley, 1873; melody by Daniel E. Kelley, 1873
Sing Home on the Range with pitch feedback
“Home on the Range” is transcribed here with its tonic on C4 at 96 bpm in 3 beats to the bar. The 5 notes span D4 to G4 — 5 semitones — which rates Easy to sing, and a full 4-pass session runs about 0:23.
5 semitones as transcribed. The practice room transposes it to sit in your own range.
- One time through
- 0:06 at 96 bpm
- A full session
- 0:23 — 4 passes
- Leaps of a third or more
- 0
Home on the Range lyrics, as transcribed here
- Home, home on the range,
The songbook transcribes the opening phrase rather than the whole song, because 4 tight repetitions of a phrase you can hear yourself improve on beats one distracted run at the full thing.
Origin and copyright status
Higley’s poem and Kelley’s melody were both published in 1873; Higley died in 1911 and Kelley in 1905 — long out of copyright.
- Attribution
- Poem “My Western Home” by Dr. Brewster Higley, 1873; melody by Daniel E. Kelley, 1873
- Language
- English
Every melody in the songbook is public domain, which is why the whole thing can be sung in a browser without a licence. A specific recording or arrangement of the same tune can still be under copyright — this is our own transcription of the melody.
Genre, era and what it drills
Tags describe what the melody asks of a voice, not what it sounds like — “cowboy song” is the reason to pick it on a given day.