Hava Nagila
This is not particularly a Russian tune but many people asked for Jewish tunes and I will be releasing them from time to time as well.
The melody was taken from an Ukrainian folk dance-song from Bukovina (a variant of Hora). It uses the Phrygian dominant scale, common in music of Romania and Western Ukraine. The commonly used text was probably composed by Abraham Zevi (Zvi) Idelsohn in 1918 to celebrate the British victory in Palestine during World War I as well as the Balfour Declaration.
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Practice tracks
Slow 110 bpm
Fast 220 bpm