The Ash Grove, with bass clef, treble clef and viola clef lead sheets, as well as two easy Middle-C shared-hands melody versions for beginner piano students! And yes, a PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT for singers.
See the lead sheets and beginning piano versions below.
The vocal music with piano accompaniment and the guitar tabs are farther down the page.
Please scroll down the page for the links to the free downloadable PDFs.
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This hand arrangement works out perfectly - as a 10-finger song - as long as the right hand does not try to play Middle C (a definite temptation for your beginners).
Here is the same arrangement, using lettered keyboard music notes:
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This song will make a beautiful piano duet, if the secondo players follows the chord symbols above the lines of music (and knows how to use chords...)
Now the lead sheets:
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The key of Bb seems particularly beautiful on the piano, to me...
And lead sheets for bass clef instruments (my cello!):
Let's have a look at the viola clef free lead sheets, page 1:
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Now... for the vocal and guitar sheets!
Ever since seeing Elizabeth Bennett singing the Ash Grove (in one of the BBC versions of Pride and Prejudice), I have loved this song. It is not very difficult, but it has a few features that make it one of those songs that teach vocalists how to sing better.
For example, on page 2, the second line has a bit of a rallentando, and the temptation is to drop the energy of the voice just when it needs to be carrying through, even surging, at "the joy of my heart..."
Also, there are long phrases in the first half of the song, where beginning singers will want to take lots of breaths.
Don't let them! Teach them what "breathing for singing" means, by encouraging them to make their air last all the way to "meander," and again until after "rove."
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I like to have songs available in several different keys, as I plan the singing for beginners whose range may be quite limited at first.
Here is a version with tablature for guitar:
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Here is a choir singing The Ash Grove in Welsh. Go here to see the Welsh lyrics and read comments for this video...
The links for the Middle C shared-hands melody arrangement for beginner piano:
Print out "Down yonder green valley" for beginning piano
Ash Grove with note names in the music notes
The links for the lead sheet PDFs:
Download Welsh song lead sheet in A
Download Welsh song "Down yonder green valleys" in Bb
Download "Down yonder green valleys" lead in C
Download lead sheet for song "Down yonder green valleys" in D
Download "Down yonder green valleys" in the key of F lead sheet
Download Welsh song lead in the key of G
Links for the lead sheets in bass clef:
Download the Ash Grove for bass clef in D
Download the Ash Grove for bass clef in G
The links for the viola clef leads:
Download the Ash Grove viola clef lead sheet in D
Download the Ash Grove viola clef lead sheet in G
The links for the vocals with piano accompaniment:
Download free vocal sheet music The Ash Grove in the key of A
Download free piano and vocal sheet music in the key of F
Download free piano/vocal music in the key of G
And the link for the guitar tablature for this lovely song:
The Ash Grove for guitar, in the key of G
This is an old melody that continues to live -- I hope you and your students enjoy it!
Basic piano chords in the keys of C & G, showing root position chords and all inversions from the root chord - plus a diatonic scale - all with lettered notes!
Free Christmas sheet music "We Three Kings" - Now 6 Arrangements! From VERY EASY to intermediate, there is an arrangement suitable for your student here!
Wassail, Wassail All Over the Town, now with an EASY & FUN duet arrangement for early beginners! This is a rousing, irresistible song for the Yuletide!
Free Christmas Songs: Deck the Halls, with a new easy-to-read lead sheet! For piano, guitar, & lead instruments. Kids enjoy this energetic Christmas carol!
Thanksgiving song lyrics & sheet music for Over the River & Through the Woods, an old-fashioned song kids will love to play & sing! EASY solos & duets.
Piano Party! I decided it was time for my students to get together for some low-stress performances, some cookies, punch & company! Kids need FUN!
Thanksgiving song for school, church, or your own pleasure! Now with a new EASY version for piano, 2 NEW piano arrangements, plus voice & other instruments.
Hark the Herald Angels Sing - an easy Middle C piano arrangement, pretty elementary & intermediate versions, & a guitar tab arrangement too!
Classical piano sheet music - Fun, one-page intros! Check out the newest addition - Burgmuller's "Arabesque", with its easy scale-wise melody!
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All the first-year material I give my beginner students.
Piano keyboard sheets, scales, chords, note-reading exercises, and over 256 pages of music!
This beautiful song book for piano & voice "Esther, For Such a Time as This", available as a digital download, tells the riveting story of the time when Jews in ancient Persia faced a foe named Haman, and how a brave young queen risked her life to save her people.
A good choice for a singing story-teller, an operatic group, a short theater production, or a class of children!
This book is also available from Amazon as a paperback.
This book is available as a digital download from this site. Visit this page to see some free examples from the book.
It is also available from Amazon as a paperback!
This is the perfect easy start for little pianists.
And when they start reading white-key notes on the staff, this is a fun easy resource to say each week, "Choose a new black-key song at home this week and figure it out to show me next lesson!" They will be spending more time at the piano.
A perfect read aloud storybook
for little boys or girls.
The Adventures of Tonsta highlight the travels of a very young boy with a good heart, who goes about helping folk in trouble.
With a red cap on his head and a sack of tools slung over his shoulder, Tonsta seems to meet people in distress wherever he goes.
Lots of trolls in this book - including one who gives him a Christmas gift!
Toni:
Thank you for your wonderful website. I also teach piano, voice and guitar - spooky! My absolute passion is opera, and have opened many a singing student's ear to the beautiful melodies and voices in the repertoire.
Thank you for the wonderful warm-ups which I have downloaded, and will be using at the earliest opportunity - I will let you know how they go! Looking forward to more warm up ideas, too.
Jane:
I just came across your website. Thank you for your wonderful generosity in sharing all these tools and tips! I am 78 years old, have sung solos and in choirs all my life and am currently appearing in our local Mary Poppins production as the Bird Woman.
The mother of one of our very young actors (7) has asked me if I would teach her to sing. I am not sure I am qualified, but with all the tools you have provided, I am considering it.
Hi, I'm Dana! (Say that like "Anna".) I'm the owner of Music-for-Music-Teachers.com, and a newer site, SingTheBibleStory.com.
Like some of you, I've been playing the piano since early childhood, and have added a few other instruments along the way, plus an interest in arranging and composing music.
You can find out more about me and the reason for this website at my About Me page.