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Despite the skips in the melody, All the Pretty Little Horses (also known as All the Pretty Little Ponies) is really easy to play. I use it as a sightreading piece, but also, always, turn it into a duet. Here is version one, using eighth notes:
Download piano sheet music All the Pretty Little Horses
And here is an easy-to-count version, with no eighth notes:
Free kids sheet music for All the Pretty Little Horses
After students have conquered the melody, we look at the chords. Usually, they play just plain block chords the first week, hands together, while I take my turn playing the "singing part" (my term to explain what a melody is). Then comes the fun part! I show them how to play the beautiful chord pattern illustrated below:
However, I don't expect them to read these notes! I don't write out the notes at all; instead, relying on their knowledge of what Am, Dm, and G triads look like on the piano, I show them the pattern using finger numbers. LH = 5-1, RH = 53-1. Making sure to draw that pattern somewhere on the top of their music, we try it with each chord, then play through the song.
Knowing how to make beautiful chord patterns like this has led to greater spontaneity among my students, I have found, both in composing their own music, and in getting together on their own to play duets. For piano students, this is a real motivator, because piano playing tends to be very solitary... and music is more fun when it is shared!
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