Easy Piano Songs for Beginners
How Doth the Little Crocodile
Easy piano songs for beginners with creepy lyrics...
How Doth the Little Crocodile, by Lewis Carroll! The melody is creepy too! You can almost hear the crocodile slowly sneaking up.
A famous bit of literature
I have always relished this short poem from "Alice in Wonderland," and enjoyed Alice's bemusement at not being able to remember the CORRECT poem about a busy little bee.
One of my young students feels just the same way as I, and decided to recite it for me.
As he spoke the words, the tune built itself in my head! I had to write it down, and the following 3 arrangements are the result.
Several arrangements for piano
Please scroll down the page for the links to the free printable music.
You can hear the crocodile creeping closer
On page 2, both hands drop down an octave, and I thinned out the left hand accompaniment a bit so as not to be too heavy. By the way, there is nothing particularly EASY about this little arrangement.
Here is the same basic arrangement, just a single page:
A much easier left hand
A shared-hands arrangement
Here is a transposed shared-hands version of the song:
I like to use these simplified Middle C arrangements of songs as a kind of note-naming, note-WRITING homework for my students.
They take a sheet home, together with a helper page to identify the notes from Low C to High C, and write the names on the page with pencil.
More often than not, they will also spend a little time trying this new song out!
The links for the easy piano songs:
Download How Doth the Little Crocodile easy piano songs for beginners, hardest solo version
Download simpler arrangement of the Crocodile song
Download easy Middle C arrangement for young beginners of How Doth the Little Crocodile
Download helper version of easy beginner Middle C arrangement of the Crocodile song (not shown)
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