The sheet music for “Air on the G String” is a available for download as a PDF. The transcription is a 2-Page lead sheet with chords as chord symbols and the melody in standard notation.

Air on the G String

“Air on the G String” is August Wilhelmj’s violin and piano arrangement of the second movement in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major. Bach wrote the suite between 1717 and 1723. In the late 1800s Wilhelmj transposed the piece to C major and dropped the melody down an octave to be able to play it entirely on the G string of the violin – the lowest string. From then on it’s been referred to as “Air on the G String.”

“Air on the G String” Sheet Music

The sheet music below is a lead sheet (melody & chords) for “Air on the G String.” The basic melody has been transcribed and arranged as a lead sheet with chord symbols.

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Trivia

The song “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Proco Harum uses part of the chord progression of “Air on the G String.”

Procol Harum’s lead singer Gary Brooker said this to Uncut magazine: “Things can be gifted. If you trace the chordal element, it does a bar or two of Bach’s ‘Air On A G String’ before it veers off. That spark was all it took. I wasn’t consciously combining Rock with Classical, it’s just that Bach’s music was in me.”

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