Greensleeves
Greensleeves is a traditional English folk song whose composer is unknown. The song is probably Elizabethan (1558–1603) in origin, and is based on an Italian style of composition. At least seven ballads with the name "Greensleeves" included in their title were registered at the London Stationer's Company in 1580 and 1581. The earliest known source of the tune is William Ballet's lute book (Trinity College at Dublin, manuscript D. I. 21, c. 1580). The tune is found in several late 16th-century and early 17th-century sources, as well as in various manuscripts preserved at the Cambridge University libraries.
Greensleeves has been used or revised by numerous musicians, including Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924), Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934), Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872–1958), Jacques Brel (1929 - 1978), Leonard Cohen (born in 1934), and John Coltrane (1926 - 1967). In William Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor, published in 1602, the character Mistress Ford refers twice to the tune of Greensleeves, and Falstaff later exclaims: "Let the sky rain potatoes! Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves!"
Tutorials
Version 1 Sheetmusic
Complete Tutorial (regular tempo, then eight measures at a time)
Slower
Part 1: Right Hand, Left Hand, Both Hands
Part 2: Right Hand, Left Hand, Both Hands
Part 3: Right Hand, Left Hand, Both Hands
Part 4: Right Hand, Left Hand, Both Hands
Complete Song at tempo Above all 2009
Version 2 2013