Yankee Doodle
Patriotic · 1700s · Traditional tune of English/colonial origin, popularized in America during the Revolutionary War, 18th century
Sing Yankee Doodle with pitch feedback
“Yankee Doodle” is transcribed here with its tonic on C4 at 112 bpm in 4 beats to the bar. The 13 notes span B3 to E4 — 5 semitones — which rates Easy to sing, and a full 4-pass session runs about 0:34.
5 semitones as transcribed. The practice room transposes it to sit in your own range.
- One time through
- 0:09 at 112 bpm
- A full session
- 0:34 — 4 passes
- Leaps of a third or more
- 3
Yankee Doodle lyrics, as transcribed here
- Yankee Doodle went to town,
- riding on a pony
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
Traditional 18th-century march tune of unknown authorship, in circulation since well before the United States existed.
- Attribution
- Traditional tune of English/colonial origin, popularized in America during the Revolutionary War, 18th century
- 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 — “march” is the reason to pick it on a given day.