Early Beginner sheet music for piano, free!
Sheet music for piano, free early beginner sheets.
Paper keyboards, scales, chords, exercises, and simple songs that focus on the notes around Middle C.
These are the first things I use with my students!
Three different printable keyboards are on this page.
Each prints out on an 8 x 11 sheet of paper.
These are a necessity for beginners, whether piano, guitar, or violin! Understanding the topography of the piano keyboard is the "Rosetta Stone" for musicians.
Shown is the first set of scales, which help to shape the beginner's hand while gradually increasing finger independence.
There is also a different set of scales on this page (not shown) to which my students progress after these ones.
These super-simple notes train students' fingers to follow their eyes, up, down, or stay in the same place!
VERY useful.
Just the Black Keys beginner book
This book with student and teacher accompaniment pieces will keep your young students busy for weeks & months learning new songs, before they are reading on the staff.
A good bet for younger children... and for families with older brothers & sisters who are beginning to be able to play on the black keys and can be the backup piano part for the beginners!
Black Notes songs - all on the black keys
Perfect for your little beginners and even older beginners, who will strengthen their fingers along with their counting abilities.
Lots of songs to choose from; your students will ask for a new one each week!
SO EASY TO READ.
Boil'em Cabbage Down free piano sheet music pdf
This melody is EASY to count, EASY to read, and EASY to play!
The chord symbols are really for a duet partner - this can be a solo, but it's more fun as a duet. And IT IS FUN!
C&B and C&D piano notes for beginners
Super-easy note-reading songs, just two notes in each.
Don't assume that these are too easy for your very young readers...
Dipping Donuts free kids sheet music
This simple-to-read song moves step by step, with notes familiar to beginners.
If desired, shape the hand into a pecking chicken shape - or a donut - and gently strike each key with a flexible wrist motion.
Dueling C's piano music for beginners
Both right and left hands want to play Middle C!
"B" and "D" also get involved in the action.
Much repetition of notes makes this an easy-success song!
A Middle C song about the bear with no hair. Very cute, with "musical surprise" in the form of quarter rests!
This one uses lettered notes, but there are other versions of Fuzzy Wuzzy on this page.
A pretty little melody with just 5 notes, this is an old traditional song with lyrics that would be understood on a farm!
This is the CHORDS, not the melody.
After your students can make the second kind of scales plus chords, they will be ready to start this beautiful piece.
Notice that the chord symbols are placed above the music, so there is no need to read the actual notes, if you understand the pattern.
A huge favorite with my students.
It does not sound like a beginner piece, but trust me, it is!
Also available with AlphaNotes (notes with letter names inside the heads).
Familiar songs are always rewarding to students.
This tune is welcomed by starting students even in July!
Several arrangements of this well-known song. This is not hard for a child who knows the tune.
Lavender's Blue, with the Cinderella song lyrics!
Very popular with young girls, particularly if you share the Cinderella videos on this page with them!
This graphic shows an arrangement with "AlphaNotes," but I also have versions on this page without the helper notes.
This piece is essential (in my studio) for understanding the relationship of the I, IV, and V chords. VERY FUN.
You will find some lettered notes in this version, pictured.
Use this music AFTER your student can easily play scales with triads.
Foundational.
Students will transpose this, change it from major to minor, add chords to it, and use it as a foundation from year to year as they progress to new chord patterns.
This creepy-sounding song moves step-by-step with lots of repetition.
It is part of a set of Halloween Songs for beginners.
Music Alphabet song with easy piano notes for kids
From A below Middle C up to G above, each note is played multiple times in a row, forward and backward, with words to sing along!
Kids are happy to learn this famous song by Beethoven.
Partly it is the familiarity of this tune, and partly, I guess, it's because it remains a great melody!
Even EASIER versions can be found on this page.
Peck! Peck! Peck! beginner piano sheet music
This little song about chickens getting their breakfast stays very close to Middle C, moving step-wise in a predictable (but cute) fashion.
The Perfect Start for Note Reading
This is a great way to start young beginners on the music staffs.
Just 2 notes at a time, for about 6 pages, then add a 3rd note... for about 6 more pages!
Good repetition. And excellent for sightreading.
Scales for Right Hand & Left Hand too
Two kinds of scales just right for beginners.
Four pages; treble clef and bass clef.
Sharks - known as the "Jaws theme song" at my studio!
This song has a familiar theme... very ominous-sounding, even with just three notes.
Snakes piano sheet music for beginners
This set of exercises is like "Wormies" but with lots more notes.
Also called "Crickets Go Hopping", as a young students re-christened this page of exercises.
A more complicated version of "Snakes," this exercise adds skips, first one, then two, then three, then four skips. Students enjoy trying to spot them!
The famous tune all children know, very useful for transposing and also chord study
One slow note at a time, play up or down - or the same note again.
With this page of exercises, you will KNOW if your piano student understands movement on the staff.
And remember...
Dianna:
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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.
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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!
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