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Jan 15, 2021
Basic Piano Chords, Inversions, & Scales with Lettered Notes
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!
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Dec 02, 2020
Free Christmas Sheet Music "We Three Kings" Beginner - Intermediate
Free Christmas sheet music "We Three Kings" - Now 6 Arrangements! From VERY EASY to intermediate, there is an arrangement suitable for your student here!
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Dec 01, 2020
Wassail, Wassail for Piano & Voice
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!
Nov 21, 2020
Free Christmas Songs for Piano, Guitar, & Leads: Deck the Halls
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!
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Nov 15, 2020
Thanksgiving Song Lyrics & Music - Over the River & Through the Woods
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.
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Nov 07, 2020
Piano Party! Kids Need FUN!
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!
Nov 03, 2020
Thanksgiving Song "For the Beauty of the Earth", Free Downloads
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.
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Nov 02, 2020
Hark the Herald Angels Sing Lyrics & Sheet Music
Hark the Herald Angels Sing - an easy Middle C piano arrangement, pretty elementary & intermediate versions, & a guitar tab arrangement too!
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Oct 30, 2020
Classical Piano Sheet Music - a Collection of Short Introductions
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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Sep 28, 2020
Toreador Piano Sheet Music - Easy Late Elementary Arrangements!
Toreador: Piano sheet music of this famous opera music! These energetic arrangements are EASIER than they sound.
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Sep 26, 2020
Songs Old and Songs New: A Collection for Beginning Piano
Songs Old and Songs New is a simple & easy way to start your beginner piano students - from piano keyboard sheets & scales & chords, to 265+ pages of music!
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Aug 28, 2020
Kate Emht's Piano Music, at Music-for-Music-Teachers
Kate Emht is a piano teacher in the United States. See what she composes and arranges for her students!
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Aug 27, 2020
Piano Chord Patterns for Beginners
Piano chord patterns for beginners to learn broken chords. Help them gain EASE & familiarity with this musical tool!
Aug 26, 2020
Canon Sheet Music for Beginner Piano Students
Canon sheet music for your early piano student. The newest version may be THE EASIEST CANON arrangement in the world! Six different versions, & a duet secondo.
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Aug 20, 2020
Staff Paper PDFs - Download Free Staff Paper
Staff paper PDFs for your music lessons, FREE. Big horizontal & vertical staff pages with & without clef symbols! Download printable staff paper of all types
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Aug 14, 2020
Sweet Betsy From Pike Guitar Chords & Tabs
Sweet Betsy From Pike guitar chords, tabs, and lyrics will make this an EASY song for your beginner guitar player to learn! Check out the free sheet music here.
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Aug 13, 2020
Sweet Betsy from Pike Easy Piano Sheets & Worksheet for Beginners
Sweet Betsy from Pike is a great old-fashioned song with a story to sing! Easy piano arrangements, lead sheets, and a worksheet too!
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Aug 08, 2020
Chopsticks Music for Piano - Easy Duets and Solos!
Chopsticks music is easy to play by rote - incorrectly! NOW with Parts 2 & 3. Sharpen up your students' abilities with duets & solos with accurate melodies.
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Aug 06, 2020
Free Printable Piano Music In the Hall of the Mountain King
This EASY free printable piano music for beginners will be an excellent first exposure to the wonderfully spooky piece "In the Hall of the Mountain King!"
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Jul 26, 2020
Choosing a Piano Teacher - HOW?
Choosing a piano teacher may seem to be a difficult task. Follow these SIMPLE GUIDELINES for success.
Jul 23, 2020
Go Tell Aunt Rhody Lyrics & Sheet Music
Go Tell Aunt Rhody is a great beginner song for piano players and violinists, too! See several simple versions of this EASY children's music.
Jul 22, 2020
Free Kids Sheet Music, Dipping Donuts for Beginning Piano
Free kids sheet music "Dipping Donuts" is a beginner exercise for flexible wrists. EASY piano music, it's fun too!
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Jul 12, 2020
Fiddle Sheet Music for Beginners: Scottish Trio "Ale is Dear"
Fiddle sheet music for beginners from Scotland "Ale is Dear" arranged for violin trio! This free & EASY ensemble is catchy and fun to play!
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Jul 03, 2020
Deep In The Heart of Texas Sheet Music, Lyrics, Chords & Tabs
Deep in the Heart of Texas, sheet music for piano duet partners. EASY primo and accessible secondo with bouncy chords make this a VERY FUN DUET!
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Jun 26, 2020
Beginner Piano Songs - Found a Peanut!
Beginner piano songs for young kids are even EASIER when the tune is familiar, and the words are fun or even silly! "Found a Peanut" fits the bill.
Jun 18, 2020
God is Good Lyrics and Sheet Music
God is So Good lyrics and sheet music, now with two new versions. This simple and sweet hymn is perfect for beginning musicians.
Jun 08, 2020
Ants Go Marching Lyrics & Sheet Music
The Ants Go Marching lyrics & sheet music for beginning piano. This lead sheet is EASY to read, with a single melody line and chord symbols. Very fun!
May 19, 2020
Storybook Love - "The Princess Bride" Movie Soundtrack Music
Storybook Love - Mark Knopfler's "The Princess Bride" movie soundtrack music is one of the prettiest movie themes ever. Now in the key of Am/C as well as Bm/D!
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May 15, 2020
Printable Piano Music What Do You Do With a Drunken or GRUMPY Sailor
What Do You Do with a GRUMPY (or Drunken) Sailor, now with an EASY lead sheet! Free printable piano music that may be your student's favorite for a long time!
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May 12, 2020
Raggle Taggle Gypsies
The Raggle-Taggle Gypsies is an exciting song for your singers! Your piano players will like it too. It is an old song, with a catchy melody easy to learn.
May 04, 2020
Easy Piano Sheet Music Free for Kids The Snake Charmer with Chords
Easy piano sheet music FREE, The Snake Charmer, now with an easier-to-read arrangement just for young, socially distant students! Mysterious-sounding & FUN.
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Apr 24, 2020
Social Distance in the Life of a Music Teacher
A journal of adapting day by day to social distance as a music teacher - how to easily teach piano, voice, guitar by phone or laptop?
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Apr 09, 2020
Queen Esther in the Bible: A Musical Re-telling of the Story
"Esther-For Such a Time as This", now with an EASY PIANO arrangement. Sing the riveting true story from long ago of how a young queen saved her people.
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Apr 04, 2020
The Erie Canal Song - Guitar Tabs, Easy Piano Sheets, & Lead Sheets
The Erie Canal Song, still popular after all these years! NOW with 2 easy Middle C arrangements for beginners! Simple piano, lead, & guitar tabs too.
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Mar 31, 2020
THANK YOU SO MUCH
I want to express my appreciation for all of the free resources you have posted, with an unimaginable amount of time spent on your part. This is a treasure!
Mar 25, 2020
Book written about teaching autistics piano students
Hi. My name is Susan Rancer. I am a Music Therapist and have been working with autistics and other disabilities all of my 44 years of my career. A
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Mar 22, 2020
Just the Black Keys, for the Younger Pianist
"Just the Black Keys" is a new piano book for young beginners who need more time with simple music. Make that simple music FUN!
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Mar 04, 2020
Bach Minuet in G Classical Piano Music - Original & Easy Arrangements
The Bach Minuet in G is a famous piece that kids enjoy playing - & now there is an EASY shared-hands arrangement to give your students as well as the original!
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Feb 27, 2020
Loch Lomond Lyrics, Sheet Music & Guitar Tabs, Easy!
Loch Lomond lyrics and sheet music for all your music students, with arrangements for beginners through advanced, plus lead sheets and guitar tabs!
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Feb 25, 2020
Dinosaur Song Lyrics & An Easy Melody for Beginning Piano
Dinosaur song lyrics describing a T-rex hunting other dinosaurs from the shadows... but NOT catching them! With easy piano notes and ominous sounds.
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Feb 20, 2020
Free Printable Sheet Music for Piano Students: Irish Wedding
Free printable sheet music "Irish Wedding". TWO SIMPLE, intuitive versions for your 1st-year kids are the newest arrangements of this compelling piece!
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Feb 11, 2020
The Spanish Lady, Vocal & Piano Sheet Music & Guitar Tabs from Ireland
The Spanish Lady is a fun, pretty, and fast-moving song from Ireland. NOW with EASY beginner piano version & duet secondo, plus fiddle & guitar tabs!
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Feb 07, 2020
Celtic Music: Listen & Download Gaelic Song and Music
Celtic music - listen and download this beautiful Gaelic music for piano. NOW with an EASY-TO-READ lead sheet with chords for your students to improvise with.
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Feb 05, 2020
Free Guitar Tabs: Devil's Dream in Tablature and Standard Notation
FREE guitar tabs, now with an EASY-to-read 2-page version. These arrangements include standard treble clef notation as well.
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Jan 31, 2020
Download Piano Sheet Music Free for All the Pretty Little Horses
Download piano sheet music "All the Pretty Little Horses", now as a lead sheet for budding chord players. Also with beginner arrangements & a duet secondo!
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Jan 19, 2020
Come By the Hills Lyrics & Sheet Music
Come By the Hills is a pretty Gaelic song your singers will learn to sing EASILY and will love. NOW with piano, guitar tab, and lead sheet arrangements.
Jan 13, 2020
Jane Austen Emma Music for Piano
Jane Austen "Emma" music - a beautiful piano arrangement based on some of the themes from one of the Jane Austen movies. Hear a video of the piano music.
Jan 06, 2020
Time-saving list!
Thank you so much for this list! You saved me a great deal of time for me, not to have to reinvent the wheel! I’m going to teach a beginning singing
Jan 02, 2020
Aragorn and Arwen's Theme at Rivendell Sheet Music
Aragorn and Arwen, in The Fellowship of the Ring, commit themselves to each other while the beautiful music "Aniron" - "I Desire" - is sung.
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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!
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About the Author
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.
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Basic Piano Chords, Inversions, & Scales with Lettered Notes
Jan 15, 21 02:00 AM
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!
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Free Christmas Sheet Music "We Three Kings" Beginner - Intermediate
Dec 02, 20 11:55 AM
Free Christmas sheet music "We Three Kings" - Now 6 Arrangements! From VERY EASY to intermediate, there is an arrangement suitable for your student here!
