Blow Ye Winds is an old whaling song with a robust melody.
Get free piano sheet music for beginners, elementary, and intermediate students, plus a piano duet as well!
This is a brand-new piece in my studio - I have yet to see how kids will like it.
The Blow Ye Winds lyrics are fun, and the music is full of energy, and that is generally a good combination.
There were LOTS more verses I could have included, but I chose to stay away from the actual descriptions of butchering the whale (!), and the racier kind of lyrics...
This is the most difficult version of Blow, Ye Winds for the piano:
Please scroll down the page for the links to the free downloadable PDFs.
The following arrangement is ALMOST the same as the first, but a little easier, with less movement (not much).
Here's a much easier left hand, same melody:
And now here's a "note-reader" version, with just a few "helper" notes to orient kids.
With a complicated melody like this, I find it can really help a student (who wants the harder version) to start simpler, until they KNOW the way the melody sounds.
Below is a duet arrangement - the notereader above is the Primo. This arrangement is robust, and fun!
The links for the piano solos:
Download Blow, Ye Winds hardest arrangement, free
Download early intermediate arrangement
Download easiest full melody with left hand
The links to the duet primo and secondo:
Download notereader version of sea shanty - which is the same as the duet primo
Download duet of Blow Ye Winds, with primo and secondo parts together
All the first-year material I give my beginner students.
Piano keyboard sheets, scales, chords, note-reading exercises, and over 256 pages of music!
This beautiful song book for piano & voice "Esther, For Such a Time as This", available as a digital download, tells the riveting story of the time when Jews in ancient Persia faced a foe named Haman, and how a brave young queen risked her life to save her people.
A good choice for a singing story-teller, an operatic group, a short theater production, or a class of children!
This book is also available from Amazon as a paperback.
This book is available as a digital download from this site. Visit this page to see some free examples from the book.
It is also available from Amazon as a paperback!
This is the perfect easy start for little pianists.
And when they start reading white-key notes on the staff, this is a fun easy resource to say each week, "Choose a new black-key song at home this week and figure it out to show me next lesson!" They will be spending more time at the piano.
A perfect read aloud storybook
for little boys or girls.
The Adventures of Tonsta highlight the travels of a very young boy with a good heart, who goes about helping folk in trouble.
With a red cap on his head and a sack of tools slung over his shoulder, Tonsta seems to meet people in distress wherever he goes.
Lots of trolls in this book - including one who gives him a Christmas gift!
Do you have a funny story about this music, or does it remind you of something you'd like to share with other readers? Do you have a question? I'd love to hear it!
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Hi, I'm Dana! (Say that like "Anna".) I'm the owner of Music-for-Music-Teachers.com, and a newer site, SingTheBibleStory.com.
Like some of you, I've been playing the piano since early childhood, and have added a few other instruments along the way, plus an interest in arranging and composing music.
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