Footsteps: hymn tune in Tonic Solfa
Footsteps, the hymn tune by Asa Brooks Everett, in Tonic Solfa (doh is Eb): the solfa line by line, staff notation and a piano to sing along with.
- Key
- Eb major
- Doh
- Eb
- Time
- 4/4
- Starts on
- m (G)
- Range
- d to l (E♭ to C, a sixth)
- Metre
- 9.4.9.4 + i
- Music
- Asa Brooks Everett
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune FOOTSTEPS by Asa Brooks Everett (1828–1875). Sources and licences.
The solfa
| m-m-m-m-,r | d-l-l-s- |
| s---m-d- | r------- |
| m-m-m-m-,r | d-l-l-s- |
| d---m-r- | d------- |
| l---f-l- | l---s-s- |
| s-l-s-m- | r------- |
| m-m-m-m-,r | d-l-l-s- |
| d---m-r- | d------- |
The solfa line by line
The same solfa as plain text, easy to copy into your own notes or a WhatsApp message to the choir.
Doh is Eb · 4/4
Staff notation
The melody on the treble staff in Eb major.
The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.
About the tune
- Music (1871): Asa Brooks Everett (1828–1875)
Metre: 9.4.9.4 + i.
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune FOOTSTEPS by Asa Brooks Everett (1828–1875). The CCEH gives its tunes as four-part scores; this page has the melody only, read from its MIDI file and checked against its incipit, and NoteFusion's engine wrote the solfa from the notes. It has not yet been checked against a printed hymn book.
New to solfa? Read how to read Tonic Solfa and how to find the doh of a song.
Questions about Footsteps
What is the doh of Footsteps?
In this version, in Eb major, doh is Eb. If your choir sings it in another key, doh moves to the new key note and every solfa syllable stays the same — that is what movable doh means.
What note does Footsteps start on?
It starts on m (G in Eb major). Find doh first, then sing up or down to m.
What words can be sung to Footsteps?
Footsteps is in the metre 9.4.9.4 + i: lines of 9, 4, 9, 4,, then, i syllables. Words written in the same metre fit it; check where the stresses fall before you sing them together.
Is Footsteps in the public domain?
Yes. Asa Brooks Everett died in 1875; the tune was first published in 1871. Everyone named died before 1955 and it was published before 1929, so the tune is out of copyright in Nigeria, the UK, the EU and the United States. Modern arrangements of it can still be under copyright.