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Down In the Valley Song for Piano & Voice, Three Arrangements
Down In the Valley is an old-fashioned song with sweet lyrics and a strong melody. Resting around Middle C & using just 2 chords, it makes a fine duet or solo!
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Short Aria Nel cor piu non mi sento, with an Easy Piano Accompaniment
Short aria Nel cor with piano accompaniment in the keys of Eb, F, and G! This pretty little aria is perfect for students just venturing into classical music.
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Moonlight Sonata in Cm
Hello! Thank you for sharing the introduction to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in C minor! It will be a good trial for a certain student. Can you make
Farther On, a Beautiful Shape-Note Hymn: vocal ensemble & instruments
Farther On is a beautiful Shape-Note hymn in the Sacred Harp tradition. Download this free hymn sheet music for ensemble, guitar, piano, & lead sheet.
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12 Major Scales Free Download for Piano: Chords, Arpeggios & Scales
12 major scales & chords: free, printable downloads. One & two-octave scales, I, IV & V chords & inversions & arpeggios, & a new PART 2!
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Bach Minuet in G Piano Music: Arrangements for All Levels
The Bach Minuet in G is a famous piece that kids enjoy playing - now with six arrangements, all of your students can conquer this piece.
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Mary Had a Little Lamb for Beginner Piano: Learn How to Add Chords
There is so much you can do with Mary Had a Little Lamb! As piano music for kids, it is unbeatable for showing them how to use chords.
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Chords and Scales Part 2?
I love the Chords and Scales sheets and was wondering if the Part 2 had the remaining keys available? I know that I could just have students transpose
Wondering Why chords Don't Match the Note in the First Beat
You gave advice on finding chords matching the note in the first or third beat of the measure. I tried this on the The Road North by Alisdair Fraser but
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Love Me Tender Sheet Music: Aura Lee
Love Me Tender sheet music is actually an American Civil War era piece. Find the guitar tabs, chords, & lyrics to Love Me Tender, & a piano arrangement, free!
Angels We Have Heard on High - Free Christmas Songs Arrangements
Angels We Have Heard on High: children love the fancy "Gloria" chorus, and you can download multiple arrangements for piano, violin, & guitar!
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Gospel Song Jesus Loves Me: Beginner & Easy Piano, Plus Lead Sheets!
Gospel song "Jesus Loves Me" is well-known to many children. Here are easy arrangements to learn the music & each word to Jesus Loves Me, for early piano.
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Easy Piano Sheet Music Swan Lake -Beginners & Intermediate Pianists!
Easy piano sheet music Swan Lake, lovely solos & duets, with lyrics in the beginner arrangements for dreamy students who love imagining. New arrangements!
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The Wellerman Sheet Music: Easy Piano & Lead Sheets!
The Wellerman: Tabs, sheet music & lyrics for piano, guitar, & more! Such a fun, high-energy song to sing & play - learn it fast with letters in the notes!
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Christmas Carol Lyrics Song from the Bible: Free SATB and Guitar Tab
Christmas carol lyrics from the Bible and an old-fashioned carol-like tune combine in this free Christmas song for SATB choir or a solo vocalist with guitar.
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Traditional Irish Song "Galway Piper" with 3 Piano Arrangements!
Traditional Irish songs tend to be either bouncy, or tender & sweet. Galway Piper falls into the bouncy, fun-to-play camp!
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"Rose" Titanic Music for Piano: the Prettiest Titanic Song?
"Rose" Titanic song is perhaps the most beautiful of all the music from the Titanic movie. See and listen to a lovely piano arrangement!
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Down by the Salley Gardens: for Singers & Instrumentalists
Down By the Salley Gardens is a pretty song from the British Isles with poetry by William Butler Yeats. Download piano, vocal, & lead sheets for your students!
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Choir Sheet Music: Two Singing Rounds for Saying "Good Night!"
Choir sheet music for your singers, two lovely rounds: one is major, & the other is minor, but both have lyrics which say "Good Night!"
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Round Music "Come, Follow, Follow:" Download This Engaging Song Free!
Round Music "Come, Follow, Follow" is a pretty melody with surprisingly sweet harmony. Download the sheet music here, in 3 keys.
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Piano Notes for Kids: Learn & Play the Music Alphabet With a Fun Song
Piano notes for kids easy song "The Music Alphabet" helps beginners relate note reading to the piano keyboard. The notes match the song lyrics!
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Children and Music: How Much Practice Time is Enough?
Children and music: How much practice time is enough? Develop effective music practice strategies for your child!
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When He Cometh "Jewels" Hymn: Piano, Guitar, Vocal
When He Cometh or "Jewels" is an old-timey sounding hymn. Very sweet & very simple, this is one your piano students & vocalists can learn from!
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Moonlight Sonata: How to Play This Piece Full of Black Keys & Triplets
Moonlight Sonata: How to play this difficult piece full of black keys & triplets? Use large notes, lots of white space, & letters inside the note heads - easy!
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Bach Well-Known Pieces for Piano: the Musette in D, a Crowd-Pleaser!
Some of the best Bach well known pieces include those from the "Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach." Among piano pieces, "Musette" is perhaps the most joyous!
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Christ Arose Sheet Music: Resurrection Day Song for Piano or Guitar
"Christ Arose" sheet music is perfect for Easter, or as many Bible believers say, "Resurrection Sunday." Mixing somberness & triumph, this song explains Easter.
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Sweet Hour of Prayer Hymn Sheet Music for Late Elementary Piano
Sweet Hour of Prayer hymn music has been around a long time, and is greatly loved still. Check out 4 arrangements for beginning to elementary piano, & guitar!
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Vivaldi "Spring" Piano Sheet Music for Elementary Piano
Vivaldi Spring piano sheet music in two versions for early students, with and without note names. A nice introductory piece to the classical repertoire!
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Printable Piano Music What Do You Do With a Drunken or GRUMPY Sailor
Printable piano music What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor, late elementary & first-year sheets! This may be your student's favorite for a long time.
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Free Piano Sheet Music PDF for Beginners: Boil'em Cabbage Down
This free piano sheet music PDF for beginners is really a fiddle tune! But don't tell your piano players, as it makes a rambunctious, easy duet! Now with Part 2.
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Baby Bumblebee Song: a Fun Old Tune with Kid-friendly Lyrics!
Baby Bumblebee Song is actually "Arkansas Traveler" - a terrific melody that is fun to sing! Here are a couple EASY arrangements for beginner piano students!
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Wolken (Clouds): Dreamy Piano Sheet Music for Beginners
Wolken (Dutch for "Clouds") is a dreamy primer piece suitable for students who have not yet played hands together.
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I Love You, Lord: Sheet Music & Easy Tabs for Piano, Voice & Guitar
I Love You, Lord sheet music - a beautiful arrangement for advancing piano students, plus a guitar tabs sheet that is very easy. In the keys of F and G.
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Gabriel's Message: "The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came"-Piano & Voice
Gabriel's Message: "The Angel Gabriel from heaven came" is an unusually lovely carol, almost unknown. Find piano & vocal arrangements here, free!.
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Christmas Song Lyrics and Free Piano Sheet Music for Holly and Ivy
Christmas Song Lyrics & sheet music of "The Holly and the Ivy" for intermediate & BEGINNING pianists: with driving energy, this carol is so PRETTY!
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Printable Sheet Music for Christmas: When Christ was Born, 2 Versions
Printable Sheet Music "When Christ is Born" is haunting. This free piano sheet music is a beautiful piece for intermediate piano, with flowing broken chords .
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Free Print Out Sheet Music Jolly Old Saint Nick! Piano & Guitar Tabs
Free Print out sheet music for Jolly Old Saint Nicholas for beginning, elementary, & early intermediate piano, & guitar with tablature! Solos & a duet.
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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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Song of the Beatitudes - Matthew 5:3-12: All the Beatitudes!
This song, the Beatitudes, Matthew 5:3-12 in the KJV Bible, is not paraphrased, but composed to include ALL the beatitudes. Sheets for voice, piano, guitar.
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Free Piano Music for Beginners: Wabash Cannonball Solo or Duet!
Free piano music for beginners "Wabash Cannonball" is an energetic & easy solo or duet! This page features Primo & Secondo parts, & lyrics.
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Classical Songs for Young Voices: Oh False One!
Classical songs for young voices can be difficult to find, especially boy/girl duets. "Oh false one" by Gilbert & Sullivan is a winner! Full of comedy & energy.
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Sheet Music for Silent Night Vocal Duets!
Sheet music for Silent Night vocal duets for your young choirs or vocal students. With pretty harmonies, this is an easy Christmas duet for beginning singers.
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Braveheart: Soundtrack Music for Intermediate Piano
Braveheart soundtrack music is among the most expressive & beautiful film music ever. Discover this moving piano arrangement , for you or your students!
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Lullaby All Through the Night: Piano & Lead Sheets, & Guitar Tabs!
Lullaby "All Through the Night" is a lovely song with fresh-sounding harmonies. Almost unknown are some of the extra lyrics - 4 verses in all. Very sing-able!
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Canoe Song Chords & Lyrics: Guitar Tablature to a Great Canada Song
Canoe Song chords are easy - just the same Dm chord works beautifully with the guitar tabs melody. Download it here for free.
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Simple Piano Sheet Music "Canoe Song", an EASY round from Canada
This simple piano sheet music, Canoe Song, is high energy and singable. Just right for piano students beginning to tuck fingers under in scales!
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White Coral Bells: a Singing Round & Easy Piano Solo
White Coral Bells is a pretty round that many will remember from school days. Get it here as a round, or a piano solo, or a lead sheet!
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Yankee Doodle: Arrangements for Beginning & Intermediate Pianists
Yankee Doodle is a well-known melody with a strong beat -- that's the kind of song most fun for beginning piano students! See 5 free versions for piano.
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Just As I Am Without One Plea: Pretty & Easy Piano & Guitar Sheets
Just As I Am, without one plea, is an old beloved hymn. Check out three arrangements for your piano students, plus two sheets for guitar with tabs!
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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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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.
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Down In the Valley Song for Piano & Voice, Three Arrangements
Down In the Valley is an old-fashioned song with sweet lyrics and a strong melody. Resting around Middle C & using just 2 chords, it makes a fine duet or solo! -
Short Aria Nel cor piu non mi sento, with an Easy Piano Accompaniment
Short aria Nel cor with piano accompaniment in the keys of Eb, F, and G! This pretty little aria is perfect for students just venturing into classical music.