piano sheet music and music lesson resources for the elementary pianist
The Piano Student is a music resource directory for teachers and beginning-intermediate level piano students. Below are a few of the most popular posts and the most active posts. I hope you enjoy the resources you find. If you are having trouble finding a particular resource, please let me know.
Updated on Jan 3, 2018
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I’ve always enjoyed I Can Only Image by Bart Millard of Christian band Mercy Me. With the movie out, based on the story behind the MercyMe song, it is currently the most downloaded song on MusicNotes.com. I Can Only Imagine was released in the United States on March 16, 2018, and has grossed $63 million worldwide. It remains the most played Christian radio single ever.
The sheet music is available to print on MusicNotes.com. You can transpose it 12 keys and give a listen before your print. The listen feature will also be useful when you start practicing.
I Can Only Image | Easy Piano Sheet Music
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2 Russian Folk Songs (Beethoven) | Easy Piano Sheet Music
Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven – 1st Movement | Easy Piano Sheet Music
Color-by-Note | Treble Clef Note Names Worksheet Bundle
Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music/Level 2
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 3
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 4
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 5
Choucoune is a nineteenth century Haitian song by Michel Mauléart Monton with lyrics by Oswald Durand. A calypso style arrangement was created by Norman Luboff for the Norman Luboff Choir with lyrics by Academy Award winning song writers, Alan and Marilyn Bergman. The adapted song was titled ‘Yellow Bird’ and was first recorded on Calypso Holiday (1957).
Yellow Bird for Easy Piano Solo
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
Did you lady friend leave the nest again?
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
You can fly away, in the sky away.
You’re more lucky than me.
More lyrics on AZLyrics.com
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On Top of Old Smoky – Easy Piano Sheet Music (Kids Song)
Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven – 1st Movement | Easy Piano Sheet Music
Color-by-Note | Treble Clef Note Names Worksheet Bundle
Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music/Level 2
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 3
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 4
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 5
The music from The Greatest Showman is pretty popular right now, and this piece is outselling everything in terms of sheet music downloads. The following piano sheet music arrangement is in G Major, and is perfect for younger students with at least two years of piano lessons. Older students might have success with this arrangement with only five or six months of lessons.
I close my eyes and I can see
The world that’s waiting up for me
That I call my own
Through the dark, through the door
Through where no one’s been before
But it feels like home
Get more lyrics on Genius.com
Check out the official video for ‘A Million Dreams’ from The Greatest Showman movie soundtrack.
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Moonlight Sonata | Easy Piano Sheet Music – Play and Learn™ Edition
Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven – 1st Movement | Easy Piano Sheet Music
This Is Me from Greatest Showman | Easy Piano Sheet Music (Digital)
Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music/Level 2
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 3
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 4
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 5
Ludwig van Beethoven wrote many pieces that are playable by your piano students, including these two Russian Folk Songs. Both piano solos are short and easy to learn for student with a few years of experience.
‘Russian Folk Song, Op. 107, No. 7’ for Easy Piano
‘Russian Folk Song, Op. 107, No. 3’ for Easy Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, 1 violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelio. Read more on Wikipedia
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Moonlight Sonata | Easy Piano Sheet Music – Play and Learn™ Edition
Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven – 1st Movement | Easy Piano Sheet Music
Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music/Level 1
Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music/Level 2
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 3
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 4
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 5
‘On Top of Old Smoky’ is a traditional American folk song. When it was recorded by The Weavers in 1951 the song reached the pop music charts.
I’ve linked to a great easy piano arrangement for kids and included lyrics for the original song and the parody, On Top of Spaghetti, below.
On top of old Smokey,
All covered with snow,
I lost my true lover,
For courtin’ so slow.
For courting’s a pleasure,
But parting is grief,
And the false hearted lover,
Is worse than a thief.
On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese.
I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed.
It rolled off the table, it rolled on the floor,
And then my poor meatball rolled out of the door.
It rolled in the garden and under a bush,
And then my poor meatball was nothing but mush.
The mush was as tasty as tasty could be,
And early next summer it grew to a tree.
The tree was all covered with beautiful moss.
It grew great big meatballs and tomato sauce.
So if you eat spaghetti all covered with cheese,
Hold on to your meatball and don’t ever sneeze.
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Flash Frog™ | Music Flash Cards for Beginners
Free Music Memory Game | Treble Clef Note Names
Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music/Level 1
Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music/Level 2
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 3
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 4
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 5
Here’s an arrangement of beginner piano sheet music that younger students might enjoy playing. This arrangement of Humpty Dumpty is in 3/4 meter and C Major. It also includes the words if you want to sign along.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a big fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland portrays Humpty Dumpty as an egg who met his end when he fell from a wall. The first Humpty Dumpty, however, was a cannon in use during the English Civil War (1642 – 1649). The nursery rhyme is one of the most popular rhymes in the English language and was first published in 1797.
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Flash Frog™ | Music Flash Cards for Beginners
Free Music Memory Game | Treble Clef Note Names
Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music/Level 1
Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music/Level 2
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 3
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 4
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 5
During the 65 years that Johann Sebastian Bach lived he wrote 1128 compositions and had 23 more in the works which are now lost or unfinished. Among them Musette in D is one of the very best. It provides piano students with an opportunity to work on music that offers a challenge to both hands, and be rewarded with the chance to enjoy playing a great piece once they have everything worked out.
About Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations, and vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. Read more on Wikipedia
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Bach | Meet the Composer Book – Easy Piano (Digital)
Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music/Level 1
Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music/Level 2
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 3
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 4
Free Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level 5
