Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Nursery · 1700s · Traditional (French melody, English lyrics 1806)
Sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with pitch feedback
“Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” is transcribed here with its tonic on C4 at 100 bpm in 4 beats to the bar. The 14 notes span C4 to A4 — 9 semitones — which rates Medium to sing, and a full 4-pass session runs about 0:38.
9 semitones as transcribed. The practice room transposes it to sit in your own range.
- One time through
- 0:10 at 100 bpm
- A full session
- 0:38 — 4 passes
- Leaps of a third or more
- 1
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star lyrics, as transcribed here
- Twinkle twinkle little star
- how I wonder what you are
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
Melody from the French air “Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman” (1761); English lyrics by Jane Taylor (1806). Both long out of copyright.
- Attribution
- Traditional (French melody, English lyrics 1806)
- 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 — “first song” is the reason to pick it on a given day.