Can-Can
Printable Piano Sheet Music

Can-Can is instantly recognizable by most people -- even by your students who don't listen to classical music at home. This energetic piece by Offenbach is pretty easy to play, too, in three different versions: with left hand whole-note chords, with left hand half-note chords, and lastly, with fast-moving split chords. Here is a funny video of a piano duet version of this Offenbach music your students may enjoy -- a piano duet played, and conducted, all by the same person!

One of the bonuses of this music (which is only a part of a much longer piece) is the descending C major scale -- perhaps your student's first real piano piece in which to use the whole C scale! This version with whole-notes in the left hand is an easy way to approach it.


Downloand printable sheet music for Can-Can

Version 2 picks up a bit of energy with half-note chords in the left hand:



Download printable sheet music with left hand half-note chords

Here's the hardest version: not too hard at all, if they have mastered the chords and right-hand melody in version 1 or 2.



Download music by Offenbach

This is a good piece for metronome races -- not to beat the metronome, but to see how fast the student can get and still keep an even tempo. Fun!