Sunday School songs, free! Download "The B-I-B-L-E", a great song for shouting at Vacation Bible School or Children's Church.
Just kidding. But it is a vigorous little song, allowing for the challenge of jumping up and spelling quickly! Very fun.
Here is The B-I-B-L-E for second-year piano players:
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Notice there is just one RH finger replacement, then the rest of the fingering is a piece of cake. The LH, too, stays with a simple I - IV - V chord inversion pattern that is quickly conquered - but notice that the LH pinky dips down to a "B" instead of a "D" in the penultimate measure.
Below is an easy arrangement of this fun song, for beginners who know their way around the Middle C notes:
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Here is the easy Middle C version written like music note drawings; each notehead has the letter name inside of it, and the F# is written out instead of hiding in a key signature as in the arrangement above:
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And the Sunday School songs free downloads of lead sheets, for other instruments or for other keys, for those pianists among you who can interpret chords:
Now what's this sheet of chords below? It's a simple way for kids who are brand new to solid chords to be able to "play" The B-I-B-L-E" at home for a week or so. This will probably only work for your student if he or she already knows the song!
The child plays the C to F to G chords (it doesn't matter which hand plays the chords - and the notes are really to help YOU, the teacher, understand what I'm saying), using the rhythm of the song's melody.
So easy. It's fun, and I like that it uses the three main chords of the key of C - in order! - which I want students to grasp early on.
The links to the piano music:
Download Sunday School song The B-I-B-L-E for elementary piano
Download Middle C arrangement of the Bible song for Sunday School
Download The B-I-B-L-E with made easy notes
The links to the lead sheets:
Sunday School songs free download lead sheet in Bb
Sunday School song download lead sheet in D
The B-I-B-L-E lead in the key of Eb
The B-I-B-L-E song in the key of G
The link to the sheet of chords:
Download sheet of chords for the Bible song
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!
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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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