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How to Use This Website - Finding the Sheet Music PDF Download!
How to use this website? Where is the sheet music that I want to download? Don't take screenshots - find the PDF!
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Rise Up, O Flame: a Fast-Moving Singing Round
Rise Up, O Flame is a pretty, minor round for singers. The harmonies are lovely.
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Play The Secret Garden: Music from the Secret Garden Movie
Play The Secret Garden! This soaring melody from The Secret Garden movie 1993 will become a favorite of your piano students. Easy piano, in Am or Bm.
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Ah Poor Bird: an Easy Singing Round & Piano Solo Too
Ah Poor Bird is one of the easiest and loveliest rounds for singers. Let your piano players discover this lovely song too, with a new arrangement!
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How to Practice Reading Music - Painlessly!
How to practice reading music... PAINLESSLY. Sheet music reading practice that is more like a game than an exercise - these sheets are FUN.
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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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Joy to the World: Lyrics, Guitar Tabs & Sheet Music!
Joy to the World lyrics, guitar tabs, & sheet music for Christmas! Piano solos, an ensemble, & guitar tabs.
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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: a Prayer That is Now a Song for Piano
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep is a childhood prayer, now a song to sing and play for your beginners.
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Wexford Carol Lyrics & Sheet Music: New Beginner & Lead Sheet Versions
Wexford Carol lyrics & sheet music, in time for Christmas! A very elegant arrangement in several keys, plus new easy arrangements for beginners!
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Merry Merry Christmas Singing Round: Short, Sweet, Energetic!
Merry Merry Christmas singing round is fast & pretty, and you may have never heard it before! Super simple lyrics. Get the free sheet music here.
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Canon Sheet Music for Beginner Piano Students
Canon sheet music for beginners. Maybe THE EASIEST CANON arrangement in the world, with broken chords! Seven different versions, & a duet arrangement.
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas Sheet Music for Piano & Voice, Free!
'Twas the Night Before Christmas sheet music for early piano. The entire poem by Clement C. Moore is here, with a rhythmic melody that is easy to play & sing!
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Down to the River to Pray Sheet Music & Lyrics: Free PDF Downloads
Down to the River to Pray, sheet music in the keys of F & G, piano & lead sheets. A satisfying & pretty early intermediate piano arrangement!
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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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All My Trials & Hold On: Two EASY Traditional Pieces for Piano!
All My Trials & Hold On - whether these are gospel or spiritual songs, they are bluesy in feeling, & satisfying to play! See what your students think.
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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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Best Piano Books: According to This Piano Teacher!
Best piano books - or at least, the ones I find myself using over and over again in my music studio! Here are my favorites.
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Beautiful Free Hymn Sheet Music, Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling
Free hymn sheet music to touch hearts, "Softly and Tenderly" is about going home -- the final home. Easy & advanced piano versions, lead sheet & guitar tabs.
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Sleepsong Sheet Music for Piano, Voice, & Lead Instrument
Sleepsong for voice,piano, & lead sheet. A Celtic-style piano arrangement imitates Secret Garden's soloist. This beautiful song will motivate your vocalists!
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Piano Sheet Music for Kids "Kookaburra": 6 Easy Versions
Piano sheet music for kids "Kookaburra" is also a singing round! Now with 2 beginner Middle C arrangements, 2 solo piano versions, & vocal rounds in 2 keys.
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Baby Shark Sheet Music: Easy, Familiar, & Fun! For Early Piano
Baby Shark sheet music is surprisingly easy, with a repeating melody in the right hand, and simple chord tones in the left hand. A WINNER with young students.
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Greensleeves Free Sheet Music for Piano: Easy, Beautiful, Motivating
Greensleeves chords & melody: This beginner arrangement of flowing broken chords will be a favorite of students - & parents - for a long time.
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Ants Go Marching Lyrics & Sheet Music: Two Easy Arrangements for Piano
The Ants Go Marching lyrics & sheet music for beginning piano. A Middle C beginner version, plus a lead sheet, EASY to read, and very fun!
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Beginner Keyboard Music Sheets: Download The Water is Wide for Piano!
Beginner keyboard music sheets as beautiful as The Water is Wide will win the hearts of your students. Download this free sheet music to print, 4 versions!
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Beginner Guitar: Songs, Guitar Tabs, Guitar Chord Sheets & More!
For a child who is a beginner guitar player, making music can be BAFFLING. Teach them how to play guitar in small baby steps.
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Frere Jacques With Lyrics: French & English! Vocal rounds & Piano
Frere Jacques, with lyrics in both French & English. Versions for voice (the vocal round), and for piano.
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I Gave My Love a Cherry: The Riddle Song - 3 Easy Arrangements
I Gave My Love a Cherry (The Riddle Song) is a very pretty folk tune with clever lyrics. Download sheet music in 3 arrangements, 4 keys.
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Seek Ye First Lyrics & Chords: a Simple Arrangement for Voice & Piano
Seek Ye First lyrics, chords, & sheet music is written for early piano. This pretty melody happens all inside 5 fingers! An optional descant is also provided.
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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 students who are beginning to tuck fingers under in scales, or can JUMP.
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Ode to Joy Sheet Music for Piano: EASY & EARLY Beginner to Advanced
Ode to Joy, with not only advanced "BIG"-sounding arrangements, piano duets, "Joyful, joyful" lyrics, but also multiple EARLY and LATE beginner arrangements!
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Eensy Weensy Spider: 3 EASY Piano Arrangements!
Eensy Weensy Spider, a cute nursery rhyme lots of kids know! Download these free sheets in middle C position. Three arrangements, including one with lettered notes.
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To: Gabrielle, Address: Heaven. A "Goodbye Until Later" Song
To: Gabrielle, Address: Heaven, & a second song, Angel in the Sky, were written when a loved young girl died very suddenly. Music is necessary in these times.
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Chord Inversions for Piano: Two Easy Approaches for Your Students
Chord inversions for piano are a KEY to the door into the world of classical music! These sheets will get your students further along in this journey.
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Shortnin' Bread Sheet Music: an Easy Beginner Duet or Solo!
Shortnin' Bread sheet music for beginning piano students - fun and easy!
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Oh How Lovely is the Evening: Easy Sheet Music for Voice & Piano
Oh, How Lovely is the Evening is an old singing round with sweet lyrics and pretty harmonies. It is very short, and EASY to learn! Find it here in many keys.
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Easy Piano Songs for Kids "Goober Peas": 4 Beginner Arrangements
Easy piano songs for kids Goober Peas in 3 versions - Easy, Easier, and Easiest! With a funny story and singable tune, this Civil War song is a solo or duet!
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America the Beautiful, a Song of Thanksgiving
America the Beautiful expresses wonder & thanksgiving. Now with new EASY PIANO arrangements for young beginners!
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The Wellerman Sheet Music: Easy Piano Arrangements & Lead Sheets
The Wellerman: sheet music & lyrics for piano & other instruments. Such a fun, high-energy song to sing & play!
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Auld Lang Syne Sheet Music PDFs: for All Instruments & Singers!
Auld Lang Syne sheet music for New Year's Eve & other gatherings! Lead sheets with chords in many keys, to accommodate all singers.
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Nutcracker Music: Russian Dance for Intermediate Piano
Nutcracker music "Russian Dance" will perk up the ears of any young dancer who has participated in the Nutcracker ballet. A short & satisfying arrangement!
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Silent Night Sheet Music: EASY Piano Solos & Duets, Free!
Silent Night sheet music, NEW duets & solos! Help your music students get ready for the Christmas holidays, beginners too.
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Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer: Piano Sheet Music for Solo & Duet!
Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer piano duet or solo: engaging arrangements that are fun to play and sing along with!
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In the Mood Piano Big Band Arrangement
In the Mood piano arrangement of the Glenn Miller big band piece, with a full sound and energetic swing!
Beginner Sheet Music for Piano - "Deep Inside the Mountains"
Beginner sheet music for piano "Deep Inside the Mountains" describes a journey to a cavern filled with gems and gold... but also a DRAGON. Mysterious.
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Halloween Songs for Beginner Piano, with & without Lettered Notes!
Kids LOVE scary Halloween music. But the TRICK is finding Halloween theme music they can play quickly. NOW these easy songs are easier than ever, with your choice of plain notes, or lettered notes. What a TREAT!
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Imperial March Star Wars Theme - an Easy & Dramatic Piano Solo!
Imperial March Star Wars theme, Darth Vader's Theme! Ominous & dark, it seems fraught with power & significance. Your students will love this EASY approach.
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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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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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