Easy Music for Piano Beginners

Piano for Beginners
Audio playback of our sheet music downloads
for 1st-year piano

Here you can listen to the music from the 'Piano for Beginners' section of our e-music catalogue. The sheet music is available, in downloadable PDF format (What's PDF?), from our online store

Arranged in progressive order, the very easy piano pieces in the Sheet Music Starters section are suitable for the 1st-year player, right from the beginning.

Stars From the Start are attractive pieces, all in middle C position, which are compatible with the online trio versions, providing opportunities to play with other instruments, at a very early stage.

Easy Christmas Music for Piano consists of very simple carols and songs for the beginner pianist.

(For digital sheet music for the second year, and beyond, click here: Music for Piano

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Stars From the Start

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These pieces, which do not go beyond the 'Middle C' hand position, are popular with beginners of all ages. Adults, though, seem to particularly enjoy performing these 'real recital pieces' for friends and family!

1. A Summer Shower

2. Best of Friends

3. We Just feel Like Dancing

4. Reassurance

5. Take Your Partners!

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For your convenience, we reproduce here the links to
Descants for Stars From the Start

A Summer Shower/ Descant

Best of Friends / Descant

We Just Feel Like Dancing / Descant

Reassurance / Descant

Take Your Partner / Descant

Sheet Music Starters
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Purchase your music and return to play along with our online scores! Learn any tricky rhythms by ear -our online pianist will never get tired of demonstrating!

P1.1 / The Piano Student; Drifting Downstream
G to G in Middle C Position, Hands separately

P1.2/ Seasons & Colours; Through the Glen
G to G in Middle C Position, Hands separately

P1.3 / What a Sight!
G to G in Middle C Position, Hands separately

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P1.4 / A Sea-Cave; Sun & Shadows
G to G in Middle C Position, Hands together

P1.5 / Sounds Like Sunday!
G to G in Middle C Position, Hands together

P1.6 Just Listening
Exploring seconds. Middle C Position. Hands together

P1.7 / Hot Cross Buns
G-G, in Middle C Position. Suggestion for improvisation/composition

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Winter, Goodbye
R.H. melody, C-G Left hand harmony notes. Middle C Position, extending L5 for low E. Improvisation idea.

Old MacDonald
Melody between hands, with optional left hand harmony notes. Middle C Position, extending L5 for low E.

Aura Lee
Melody between hands, with optional left hand harmony notes, extending L5 for low E.

Twinkle, Twinkle
Suggestion for octave change of simple left hand part. Middle C Position, extending L5 for low E

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When the Saints Go Marching In
R.H. melody, C-G Left hand harmony notes. Middle C Position, extending L5 for low E. Improvisation idea.

P2.1 / Janet's Dance
Keys of C major & A minor. Very suitable for a 'chord-approach'.

P2.2 / A Stately Dance
Keys of C major & A minor. Very suitable for a 'chord-approach'.

P2.3 / Maisie, Maisie!
'Jazzy' flavour. Very suitable for a 'chord-approach'.

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Pitch It Right! (Piano)
Description: Very simple songs, using the notes C-G, treble clef, for beginner readers. They were originally compiled for class teaching and teachers' notes are available, providing pages of games and activities for aural and rhythmic training. Pitch It Right! is ideal for teachers who adopt an aural approach to early tuition, or who use tonic solfa.

Includes:

Things Can Only Only Get Better!

All Fingers - And Feet!

Pardon Me!

Dancing Fingers

This Elephant Did Forget!

Christmas Music for 1st -year Pianists

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Rocking

The First Nowell

O Little Town of Bethlehem

O Little Town of Bethlehem (2)