Easy Piano Sheet Music
Swan Lake 

Easy piano sheet music Swan Lake solos & duets, with lyrics in the beginner arrangements for dreamy students who love imagining... A new SHORT arrangement with broken chords for any child who loves the mysterious sound of the minor scale.

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In addition to this version using mysterious lyrics, I have here a couple of lovely and satisfying arrangements: 

• two late elementary/early intermediate versions with broken chords and some chord inversions, and
• a duet secondo part to go with the easy arrangement for beginners.

The main theme, with broken chords

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Any child who has mastered the first part of the page Basic Piano Chords will be able to understand the Am to Dm inversion broken chords shown above.  It's just like the C chord moving to F/C, where C stays in the bass and the top notes move.

The melody is easily mastered, as the right hand never has to move!

The main theme plus development

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Starting on measure 16, the right hand melody climbs and climbs up to high B, in measure 23.  It may look confusing to music readers who aren't familiar with these higher notes.

Sometimes good fingering can be magical

Here is a fingering which takes you all the way from initial note A up to high B:

1 2 3 4, 1 2 3...!

What do I mean?  I mean, instead of tucking under after finger 3 as we ordinarily do with ascending right hand scales, tuck under after finger 4, and you are set!  The way BACK DOWN will require a bit more imagination... that's one reason that I left fingering off.

The left hand is easy also

Although the left hand picks up and moves, almost every chord is a root position, making this part easier than it looks.

The Swan Lake theme

Page 2 of the early intermediate version

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Here is a close-up look at page one, the beginning:

Here is the bottom of the page, where the theme changes, and the chord progressions move more quickly:

Here is a beginner's arrangement of this classical piece from the ballet repertoire of Tchaikovsky, sent to me by Tabitha S. Kierszka.

Tabitha is a piano teacher, arranger and composer from the Netherlands, where Swan Lake is called "Het Zwanenmeer." This easy arrangement lays nicely in the hands of a beginner.  

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Though this version of the ballet Swan Lake theme is so simple, the mind of a child can supply all the mystery of the orchestral background as their fingers move over the keys -- especially if you introduce them to it. 

Even lovelier as a duet

To turn this piece into a duet, try broken Am chords played quickly from left to right and held, followed by an F broken chord, and ending with a deep Am again.

Another beautiful harmonization is the progression Am - Dm - Am - Dm - Am.

When your student plays Swan Lake at home, the ear of the imagination will fill in the missing harmony. (At least I think it will -- I could always hear the missing orchestra in my head as a kid! How about you?) 

An easy version with a touch of harmony

Now here is my own easy piano sheet music or duet primo for Swan Lake: unlike Tabitha, I didn't add any dynamic markings.  But this arrangement differs by adding an Am chord every few measures:

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Full of skips (intervals of thirds), but pretty easy!

And here is a duet, with both primo and secondo on the same sheet:

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Look at all those rolled chords!  Actually, just TWO rolled chords, again and again.

A good duet for siblings

The secondo part will require some skill with chord inversions - excellent practice for an intermediate-level older sister or brother, to play along with a younger sibling.

Notice how the rolled chords climb from the bass clef up into the treble clef in measure four, then jump back down to bass clef again:

The secondo looks harder than it really is; the hands are parallel all the way through.

I hope your students enjoy these arrangements of Swan Lake!

The links to the piano music:

Download beginner arrangement with lyrics

Download short version of Swan Lake with broken chords

Download Swan Lake intermediate solo with broken chords

Download free beginner sheet music Swan Lake from Tabitha in the Netherlands

Download easy piano sheet music Swan Lake with a bit of harmony

Download Swan Lake duet with both primo and secondo on the page

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