Flight of the Bumblebee – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Hard · 1:20Preview

This song's sheet music is in the app

Read and play Flight of the Bumblebee from the full sheet music in EzPiano.

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  • Sheet music with a cursor that follows you
  • Wait mode, slow practice and hands apart
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About this piece · More like this

Flight of the Bumblebee — Sheet music

  • Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Length: 1:20
  • Sheet
  • MIDI

Preview · 30 sThis page plays a 30-second preview. The full song and its sheet music are in the app.

About this piece

Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is one of the classical pieces in the EzPiano catalogue, arranged for piano at advanced level. What you can play here is the first 31 seconds (477 notes, about 15 a second); the whole arrangement lasts 1:20. Expect a count in 2/4 and a tempo near 156 bpm. The full arrangement spans F1 to A7, about 6½ octaves of the keyboard. About 29 % of the preview’s key presses sound two or more notes at once; the rest are single notes.

The opening is busy, about 15 notes a second: try it at 50 % speed in Wait mode before you play along.

Full song
1:20
Preview
the opening 31 s, 477 notes
Tempo
about 156 bpm
Time signature
2/4
Range (full song)
F1–A7 (about 6½ octaves)
Notes (full song)
1,334

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