Free Christmas sheet music "We Three Kings", now in SIX levels!
What's new? Along with a lead sheet with just a few helper notes (letters inside the notes), here is a simplified version of the smaller hand arrangement.
Note that when the hands play together on page one, the left hand STOPS on beat 2, and waits for the right hand to execute beat 3 alone.
You might think that this small change would not matter much in the ease of playing this song, but think again! It makes a LOT of difference.
When I was a child, this Christmas song held a kind of mystery for me. The strange words combined with the minor plaintiveness of the melody seemed so beautiful, that I loved to sing it.
Together, the verses create a mood as they hint of the whole life-and-death drama of the Christ Child's story by weaving a tapestry of pictures and feelings.
Listen to this lovely choral version of We Three Kings of Orient by the King's College singers:
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Here is the new "Middle C" version for beginners.
It has just TWO "helper" notes to remind students where to start, and then they're on their own. As the melody is mostly moving in a stepwise fashion, they should do alright, especially if they've heard this song before.
As for fingering, you'll need to help them decide. I had good luck with a young student today by telling him that the thumbs were "taking turns" with Middle C; that seemed logical to him! And indeed, in The Perfect Start for Note Reading, a book I use with beginning note-readers, that is done constantly.
I'm sorry I didn't take the time to put chord symbols above the music. They would be easy to pencil in, if you desire to turn this into a duet.
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Below is a "fancy" arrangement, very pretty, for small hands. This is the harder version of the arrangement shown at the very top of this page:
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Here is a similar arrangement, but easier... no moving thirds in the right hand.
I'm not showing page 2, because IT IS JUST THE SAME as the previous arrangement. I will admit that page 2 is NOT EASY compared to page 1, in this arrangement.
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The version for beginning intermediate piano below is the first one I arranged, a few years ago.
You may notice (on the second page, which I've since rearranged a bit) that the grammar has improved in the lyrics - there is one tiny error (it's for "its").
I'm not going to bother fixing it, since this music is FREE, and it is REALLY TIME-CONSUMING to change. Perhaps you can use this opportunity to point out to your students this common grammatical mistake!
(Also, if you're curious about why there is a single rest at the beginning of the three newer arrangements above, it is because of a software glitch with my ordinarily superb Finale music-writing software...
I started this arrangement off of another one that had a single-beat pick-up note, and I couldn't delete the measure or hide it.
I would have had to copy and paste onto a whole new document. Too time-consuming, at least for right now! )
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This piano arrangement will be easy for students who have already played Harp Ballad or Brian Boru's March. It moves slowly enough that the parallel thirds in the right hand will not be difficult.
In the chorus, chord inversions are used in both hands (but again, slowly) so that familiarity with those is useful. See my page Twelve Major Keys Chords and Scales, and download "The Key of C" if this concept is new to you.
Download arrangements from early beginning through early intermediate piano. All of the Christmas song lyrics are included so you can sing as well as play the music!
The lead sheet link:
Download lead sheet arrangement of We Three Kings
The link for the beginner arrangement on Middle C:
Download free Christmas music We Three Kings, Middle C arrangement
The links for the piano solos:
Download fancy piano arrangement for small hands, with parallel thirds in the right hand
Download easy two-hand arrangement of We Three Kings, with single melody notes
Download free Christmas sheet music "We Three Kings" with long left hand chords in page one
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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
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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!
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