Beginner Piano Music for Kids -
Beginner Piano Music
You just can’t have too much beginner piano music! Supplement your piano method with free kids sheet music, and add some spice to your students’ music diet without breaking the bank.
New Beginners Indian Dance Mary Had a Little LambOde to JoySharks Snakes Snakes Go for a Walk Wormies
Middle C Music All the Pretty Little Horses Back and Forth Dipping DonutsFur EliseFuzzy Wuzzy In the Hall of the Mountain KingThe MoldauOld Joe Clark Peck! Peck! Peck!Snake Charmer Star of the County Down Swan Lake Waltzing Matilda The Water is Wide Yankee Doodle
Christmas Music Bring a Torch, easyChrist Child’s Lullaby Deck the Halls, easy Carol of the Bells, easyGreensleeves Duet, easy Greensleeves Solo Holly and Ivy Lo, I Bring You Tidings Ukrainian Bell Carol When Christ was Born
Halloween Music De BoselfHalloween Songs
After Year One Cowboy Song Fur Elise easy Medieval BellsThe MoldauOld Joe ClarkPachelbel Canon (in C)Sakura What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor easy
After Year Two Bach Minuet in GBach Prelude in CBrian Boru’s March Egyptian Dance Fur Elise original (part 1) Harp Ballad Irish WeddingPachelbel Canon in D longerWaltzing Matilda What Will We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Year Three and After The Moldau(Short)The Moldau (Long)
Ensembles for Piano and Keyboard Golden WeddingToccata from L’Orfeo
Hymns Amazing GraceFarther On Lo, I Bring You Tidings Softly and TenderlyTapsWhat Wondrous Love
Every kid, every situation is unique…some kids will happily play week after week from their piano method books, enjoying each turn of the page with its new challenge, while others find the books boring and dig in their heels as you attempt to drag them through their lesson book.
Some beginners move along quickly, while others need months and months to digest the small handful of notes around Middle C.
Some kids have heard classical piano music from the time they were born; with others, all they know is video game music.
All kids love to play what is familiar to them. You will have to stretch them, expanding their tastes, but you must still satisfy their desire to play what sounds like music to them (the reason they were excited to play piano in the first place!) or risk losing them as a student.
Never will I forget an account by the late John Holt (writer and early home-schooling advocate, and lover-if-not-master of the cello) in his book, Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story, about meeting another adult cello student. Like him, she was a beginner, and they were comparing notes (no pun intended). Holt was thoroughly enjoying himself with the growing number of real cello pieces he could play, even though he felt his abilities were quite modest. But the poor woman cellist was confined to scales by her teacher, week after week. At the end of each lesson this man would say something like, “I think you’re almost ready for a real piece…but no, we’d better continue with the scales.”
Yikes! Can you imagine? I don’t think too many of us would do that to our students, but the story is a useful reminder that LOVE, a sense of wonder, and excitement are what draw children to music, and we teachers must not forget that.
Scales? Yes. Exercises? Yes. Notereading? Of course. But always at least one FUN piece, a piece that gives the child something to look forward to at practice time. Keep looking until you find a piece they enjoy, and they will likely work on it happily until it is perfect.
So where do you find that perfect piece? It’s so easy to make a wrong choice for a picky student! And there’s the nagging little voice in the back of your mind reminding you that copying is definitely not legal…
If only there was a source of free kids’ sheet music, beginner piano music! Music with suggestions for teachers, and stories and tips. Well, now there is. I have a large and ever-expanding collection of beginner piano music, and what I offer here has been tried and found worthy of keeping! Much of it is supplemental to the beginner piano music method books I use, but a lot of it is music I consider essential for my students, to lay down a hands-on foundation of understanding music theory.
Help yourself to any of this beginner piano music that strikes your fancy.
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