Very easy clarinet music with simple piano accompaniments. Here, you will find pieces for a beginner's very first lesson to Grade 1 standard of UK music exams. Available, in downloadable PDF format.

The 'Clarinets Start Here' series provides attractive repertoire which dovetails with popular methods. The pieces, or 'songs', are carefully graded with this in mind. 

'Sheet Music Starters' consists  of further easy music for clarinet, all suitable for the 1st-year player. 

Flexible arrangements for groups of instruments, with clarinet parts entirely within the chalumeau register, will be found on the Easy Ensembles page.

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Clarinets Start Here

Make a song and dance of those first lessons with our 
2-and 3- note, accompanied, pieces!

Clarinets in C play from the same music but the accompaniment 
needs to be transposed (+2)

These scores supplement beginner method books with tuneful repertoire, at each step. They are graded, from the very beginning, up to a Grade 1 standard (UK exams)

Once you have purchased a clarinet part, you will be able to return and play along with the online piano part, whenever you wish. 

 

PCS005 Clarinets Start Here-1/Piano Score

Clarinets Start Here - 1 Listen

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PCS005A  Clarinets Start Here -1 / Clarinet in Bb
Notes: E & D

Includes:
Pitch notation reminder  Warm-up exercises

Well, Let's Get Cracking!
Wind & Rain
Strike Up the Band!
Shall We Dance?

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PCS004  Clarinets Start Here-2/ Piano Score

Clarinets Start Here - 2  Listen

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PCS004A  Clarinets Start Here - 2 / Clarinet in Bb
Notes: C D E

Includes:
Pitch notation reminder  Warm-up exercises

A First Song
Strange Bells
Just Strolling
Merrily

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PCS007  Clarinets Start Here-3/ Piano Score Clarinets Start Here - 3

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PCS007A  Clarinets Start Here -3 / Clarinet in Bb
Notes: C D E 

Includes:
Pitch notation reminder  Warm-up exercises

Get in the Groove!
Lonely Walk
Dancing Partners

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PCS008  Clarinets Start Here-4/Piano Score

Clarinets Start Here -4 Listen

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PCS008A  Clarinets Start Here -4 / Clarinet in Bb
Notes: C D E F

Includes:
Pitch notation reminder  Warm-up exercises

Ring, Joyful Bells!
Country Dance
Ghostly Voices
Yesterday's Games

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PCS010  Clarinets Start Here-5/ Piano Score  

Clarinets Start Here - 5  Listen

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PCS010A  Clarinets Start Here - 5 / Clarinet in Bb
Notes: C D E F G

Includes:
Pitch notation reminder  Warm-up exercises

Five Note Fun
Down By the Danube
Stirring the Pudding

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PCS011  Clarinets Start Herte-6/Piano Score
Clarinets Start Here - 6, "Old Country Scenes" Listen

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PCS011A  Clarinets Start Here - 6 / Clarinet in Bb
Notes: C DE F G

Includes:
Pitch notation reminder  
Warm-up exercises

Old Country Scenes:
Springtime in the Copse
At Work in the Fields
Harvest Dance

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Also for this stage( notes C-G), see "Stars From the Start"

 

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PCS012 Clarinets Start Here-7/ Piano Score


Clarinets Start Here -7

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PCS012A  Clarinets Start Here -7 / Clarinet in Bb
Notes: B C D E F G

Includes:
Pitch notation reminder  Warm-up exercises

What Care I?
Phrygian Buglers
Windmills

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PCS013  Clarinets Start Here-8/ Piano Score  

Clarinets Start Here -8, "Gaelic Scenes"  Listen

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PCS013A  Clarinets Start Here -8 / Clarinet
Notes: G A B C D E F G

Includes:
Pitch notation reminder  Warm-up exercises

Gaelic Scenes:
Hush Now, Wee Laddie!
Coming Home

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PCS014  Clarinets Start Here-9/ Piano Score

Clarinets Start Here -9, "Donning the Tartan" Listen

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PCS014A  Clarinets Start Here -9 / Clarinet
Notes:  G A B D E F# G A

Includes:
Donning the Tartan:
When Old Friends Gather
Thoughts of Home
Taking the Floor

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PCS015  Clarinets Start Here-10

Clarinets Start Here -10, "A Summer Day"

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PCS015A  Clarinets Start Here -10 / Clarinet
Notes:  F G A Bb C D E F

A Summer Day - 1:
Waking Early
Out & About

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Sheet Music Starters

PCS001P  Sun & Shadows/ Cl & Pno Parts Sun & Shadows; Drifting Downstream Listen

Clarinet range G-G

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PCS006A  Two Folk Tunes/ Clarinet

Two Folk tunes / Clarinet Listen
Range: G-E

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PCS009  Hot Cross Buns/ Clarinet

Hot Cross Buns / Clarinet Solo
Range: G-G. Improvisation suggestion 

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PCS003P By the River/ Clarinet & Piano  

By the River / Clarinet & Piano  Listen

Range: G-G. Lots of dynamic variation, optional trills (E-F & D-E)

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PCS002P  Hip Hippopotamus/ Piano & Clarinet Parts
Hip Hippopotamus / Clarinet & Piano  Listen

For 'jazzers' - learn the rhythms by ear! Lyrics are provided in the clarinet part, purely for the entertainment of the player.This piece is Grade 1 level and, like other on this page, does not cross 'the break'.

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PCS020  Podmore: Fireworks/ Clarinet Round 
Fireworks - A Round  Listen
Chalumeau register F major, 1 octave .

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