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Sweet Hour of Prayer Hymn Sheet Music for Late Elementary Piano

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Sweet Hour of Prayer hymn music has been around a long time, and is greatly loved still. Check out 3 arrangements for beginning to elementary piano!

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Vivaldi "Spring" Piano Sheet Music for Elementary Piano

The Four Seasons Spring Vivaldi

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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12 Major Scales Free Download for Piano: Chords, Arpeggios & Scales

Key of C chords & 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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Printable Piano Music What Do You Do With a Drunken or GRUMPY Sailor

Sea chanty song

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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The Wellerman Sheet Music: Easy Piano & Lead Sheets!

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The Wellerman: sheet music & lyrics for piano & other instruments. Such a fun, high-energy song to sing & play - learn it fast with letters in the notes!

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Free Piano Sheet Music PDF for Beginners: Boil'em Cabbage Down

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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!

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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

Clouds song 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Jolly Old Saint Nick piano music

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

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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!

Bible song sheet music

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!

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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!

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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!

Singing duet Silent Night

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 sheet music

Braveheart soundtrack music is among the most expressive & beautiful film music ever. Discover an exciting new 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

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

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

Canoe Song with 6 notes

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 lead sheet

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 piano

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 hymn

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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Play The Secret Garden: Music from the Secret Garden Movie

Piano music Secret Garden

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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Free Classical Sheet Music: Egyptian Dance for Beginning Pianists!

Free classical sheet music

Free classical sheet music Egyptian Dance, for beginner & elementary piano. With a beautiful eastern-sounding melody, an easy left hand, & a new LEAD sheet.

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Gospel Song Jesus Loves Me: Beginner & Easy Piano, Plus Lead Sheets!

Song Jesus Loves Me

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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There is a Happy Land: Sheet Music from The Sacred Harp Tradition

Happy Land music for piano

There is a Happy Land, a hymn from the 1800's, was a favorite of Ma Ingalls. With its pleasing melody & joyful lyrics, it may become a favorite with you!

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Beautiful Free Hymn Sheet Music, Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling

Hymn duet Softly & Tenderly

Free hymn sheet music "Softly and Tenderly" is about going home -- the final home. Beginner to advanced arrangements, a new duet, lead sheet, & guitar tabs.

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How to Use This Website - Finding the Sheet Music PDF Download!

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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

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Rise Up, O Flame is a pretty, minor round for singers. The harmonies are lovely.

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Ah Poor Bird: an Easy Singing Round & Piano Solo Too

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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!

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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!

Swan Lake easy piano music

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 piano 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 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 from Ireland

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 & a Happy New Year music

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

Pachelbel Canon for beginners

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

'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 piano arrangement key of F

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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All My Trials & Hold On: Two EASY Traditional Pieces for Piano!

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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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Best Piano Books: According to This Piano Teacher!

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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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Sleepsong Sheet Music for Piano, Voice, & Lead Instrument

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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The Adventures of Tonsta, Volume 1, is a book about a young boy travelling over mountains and fjords from village to village, encountering trolls and helping folk in distress.

The Adventures of Tonsta

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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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.

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