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Feb 18, 2020
Queen Esther in the Bible: The Dramatic Story in Song
"Esther-For Such a Time as This" is music re-telling the riveting story from the Bible of an attempted genocide long ago & how a young queen saved her people.
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Feb 11, 2020
The Spanish Lady, Free Vocal Sheet Music and 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 22, 2020
Free Printable Sheet Music for Piano Students: Irish Wedding
Free printable sheet music "Irish Wedding". A SIMPLE, intuitive version for your 1st-year kids is the newest of the arrangements of this fun, pretty piece!
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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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Jan 01, 2020
Titanic Music for Intermediate Piano
This is the most famous "Titanic music" from Titanic the movie, arranged for intermediate piano. Not too easy, but very lovely.
Jan 01, 2020
Little Drummer Boy Lyrics and Sheet Music
Little Drummer Boy lyrics and sheet music for piano - this easy version has a full sound, a changing but predictable rhythm, & all the lyrics!
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Nov 21, 2019
Ding Dong Merrily On High, Free, for Piano and Voice
Ding Dong Merrily On High for voice, piano, & leads, with two new simpler versions. You will be surprised how EASY the elaborate-sounding chorus really is!
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Nov 15, 2019
America the Beautiful, a Song of Thanksgiving
America the Beautiful expresses wonder & thanksgiving. Now with a new EASY PIANO arrangement in two keys.
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Nov 08, 2019
WIN BIG With the Easy New Lake Pirates
TODAY gave one of my youngest students the newest and easiest version of The Lake Pirates. SCORE!!!
HE READ "THE LAKE PIRATES STRAIGHT" THROUGH. AMAZING. He was very excited about it, too! I almost had to push him off the piano bench to get him to stop playing it and go home. I think the lyrics had something to do with that:
"Hark! What's that in the morning fog? It's a SHIP in the morning fog! From the fog comes a ship with a flag on its mast. It's a black Jolly Roger flag. With the skull & the crossbones, the white on the black! Yes, the flag is a PIRATE FLAG!" etc.
This is a boy who is solidly in the first level of The Perfect Start to Note Reading, just the notes around Middle C. And even with a few helper alphanotes, The Lake Pirates LOOKS daunting. And sounds BIG. But he got it in one go. We'll see how he does with the rhythm this week, but I think the meter of the lyrics will be a natural help with those eighth notes (you don't find eighth notes in The Perfect Start to Note Reading).
Nov 07, 2019
Free Printable Piano Sheet Music - Three Versions, The Lake Pirates!
Free printable piano sheet music for early to late beginners. Now with a Middle C arrangement with pirate lyrics! Very easy to late elementary.
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Oct 26, 2019
The Snowman Theme: Walking In the Air Piano Music
This sparkling piano arrangement of the main musical theme from The Snowman will win your students' hearts and imaginations with its beauty.
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Oct 23, 2019
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 C!
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Oct 12, 2019
O Susanna Easy Piano & Guitar Sheet Music
O Susanna is a song from the olden days of gold panning, and it's still fun to sing and play! Get the sheet music for beginning piano, and easy tabs for guitar here.
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Oct 10, 2019
Toccata by Monteverdi for Piano Trio, or Piano Ensemble
Toccata, from an opera: vigorous & bright trio and ensemble arrangements with lots of rhythm - surprisingly EASY & FUN! With many rehearsal suggestions.
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Oct 01, 2019
Classical Piano Sheet Music - a Collection of Short Introductions
Classical piano sheet music collection - easy one-page introductions for note-writing practice & gaining familiarity with the literature!
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Sep 28, 2019
Should I Even Bother Trying to Re-Learn Piano, Or Is It a Waste of Time?
Comments or Questions: I was just reading about autism and music. I am recovering from a subarachnoid hemmorhage (bleeding in the brain) that ended up
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Sep 05, 2019
Skye Boat Song Vocal & Guitar Sheet Music
"Skye Boat Song" from Scotland, with a lovely NEW finger-picking version for guitar, as well as the 2 original EASY arrangements!
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Aug 06, 2019
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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Jul 17, 2019
Free Printable Piano Sheet Music Golden Wedding Solo, Duet & Trio!
Free printable piano sheet music for solo or keyboard/ piano class Golden Wedding with a lovely minor melody. EASY duet & trio; harder solo!
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Jul 16, 2019
Happy Birthday Free Sheet Music for Guitar, Piano, & Lead Instruments
Happy Birthday, with several NEW arrangements for piano solo & duet, and guitar tabs, some with a few lettered notes to make it easy for beginners.
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Jul 13, 2019
Ode to Joy Sheet Music for Piano, Easy Beginner to Advanced
Ode to Joy, now with advanced "BIG"-sounding arrangements, piano duets, "Joyful, joyful" lyrics, and multiple beginner and late beginner arrangements.
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Jul 07, 2019
Just As I Am Without One Plea Easy Piano Arrangement
Just As I Am, without one plea, is an old beloved hymn. Check out two very easy arrangements for your piano students.
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Jun 27, 2019
Education Music Resources - My Favorites! A Music Teacher's View
Education music resources: here is a list of my favorite materials, whether for piano, voice, guitar or violin student.
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Jun 21, 2019
Viva la Musica Song - a Round in Three Parts
Viva la musica is a very old round for singing. Find it here for treble and bass voices and for guitar.
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May 30, 2019
Zum Gali Gali Lyrics and Sheet Music
Zum Gali Gali lyrics and easy sheet music for piano, voice, guitar, and lead instruments.
May 30, 2019
Classical Guitar Sheet Music "Allegro" by Giuliani
Classical guitar sheet music from "Le Papillon" (The Butterfly) by Giuliani, now with guitar tablature - this classical piece is very EASY!
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May 08, 2019
Spanish Study Free Guitar Tabs for Beginning Classical Guitar
Spanish Study, with a new version showing all 3 pages of tablature. This is a simplified guitar version of the famous piece "Asturias."
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Apr 25, 2019
Star-Spangled Banner Free Sheet Music & Lyrics for All Instruments
Star-Spangled Banner free sheet music. Now with a singer's "find-your-pitch" exercise! America's national anthem in 7 keys, & lyrics for 1 or all 4 verses.
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Apr 11, 2019
Tarantelle, the Spider Dance, for Beginning Piano
Tarantelle, now with a shortened melody, and in Dm position! The Spider Dance is a vigorous and fun melody for beginning piano students.
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Mar 27, 2019
Easy Piano Sheet Music Swan Lake, Free!
Easy piano sheet music Swan Lake, now with a pretty intermediate arrangement and duet secondo! For students who love the mysterious sound of the minor scale.
Mar 22, 2019
Mozart Alla Turca PDF First Movement, for Beginners
Mozart all turca pdf - the slow first movement of this sonata for beginners. An easy and lovely introduction to this famous piano music!
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Feb 28, 2019
Beginner Guitar Song Boil'em Cabbage Down
Beginner guitar song Boil'em Cabbage Down - now with eighth notes for flat-picking readers. This is a great beginning technique song for strings!
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Feb 25, 2019
There Were Three Ravens Sat On a Tree PDF Score
There Were Three Ravens Sat On a Tree in five different keys! With all the lyrics, short and long versions.
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Feb 01, 2019
Free Fur Elise Sheet Music - Beautifully Readable Copies
Fur Elise sheet music in its entirety, with quarter notes for easy deciphering! These beautiful transcriptions are perfect for students who've just mastered coordination of right hand melody against left hand broken chords.
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Jan 24, 2019
What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor Chords & Guitar Tabs
What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor chords & guitar tabs, with standard notation for fiddle players too! A short solo and a fancy flatpicking duet!
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Jan 21, 2019
"I'll Fly Away" Free Fiddle Sheet Music & Easy Guitar Tabs
I'll Fly Away free fiddle sheet music, with an easy lettered version for beginners! Also, solos & harmonies for voice and guitar.
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Dec 20, 2018
Home on the Range Free Guitar Tabs & Sheet Music
Home on the Range, free guitar tabs are an easy way to show your guitar student how to dress up a song with secondary chords. First show them the simple version with 3 chords, then move on to the fancy arrangement!
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Dec 13, 2018
Hark the Herald Angels Sing Lyrics & Sheet Music
Hark the Herald Angels Sing - an easy Middle C piano arrangement for young students still learning to read notes, and a guitar tab arrangement too!
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Dec 05, 2018
Carol of the Bells Guitar Tab
Carol of the Bells guitar tab for your student who is beginning to stretch their abilities with classical or fingerstyle guitar playing. These tabs are LEGIBLE!
Dec 05, 2018
Oh Holy Night Sheet Music for Elementary Piano
Oh Holy Night sheet music for elementary piano - NOW with an EASIER secondo part that your intermediate students can play! The easy solo shares the melody between the two hands.
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Nov 14, 2018
Christmas Song Lyrics and Free Piano Sheet Music for Holly and Ivy
Christmas Song Lyrics & sheet music of "The Holly and the Ivy" for your intermediate & now BEGINNING piano players: 3 energetic arrangements with flowing left hand chords and one SIMPLE Middle C arrangement.
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Nov 13, 2018
Gabriel's Message: The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came
Gabriel's Message: "The Angel Gabriel from heaven came" is a beautiful Christmas song that is almost unknown. It makes a lovely vocal duet. - now updated and SIMPLIFIED.
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Nov 08, 2018
Teaching Young Singers Who Have No Music Background
Teaching young singers: what do you do with a non-musician who can't even read their own language, much less music notes? Here is some QUICK ADVICE!
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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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Hi, I'm Dana! (Say that like "Anna".) I'm the owner of Music-for-Music-Teachers.com.
Like some of you, I've been playing the piano since early childhood, and added a few other instruments along the way, plus an interest in arranging and composing music.
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