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Best Broadway Musicals List - My Top Favorite Shows
This Broadway musicals list features the songs I've found to be most singable, easily learned, & beloved among my own students. Also, warnings of some pitfalls!
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Classical Piano Sheet Music: Download Free PDF Pieces
Classical piano sheet music - 1 or 2 page intros, & some longer. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & more - bite-size classics for beginning & advancing players.
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Cinderella Song Lyrics & Sheet Music Lavender's Blue
Cinderella song lyrics & sheet music for voice & piano. The movie is Disney, but this pretty lullaby in Cinderella (2015) is actually an old song from England!
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Russia Song of the Plains Meadowland Easy Sheet Music
A famous & powerful song from Russia, this Cavalry piece is frequently sung by a Red Army choir. Find here easy piano & lead sheets, & guitar tabs.
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Looking for music in certain keys
I am wondering if there is a way to find songs of certain key signatures on your site? In my Google Classroom for my students I have several Topics based
Old Gospel Hymns: Timeless Song "Come Ye Sinners"
Old gospel hymns: the lyrics "Come Ye Sinners" are used with two beautiful melodies. This version is light & flowing. Guitar tabs, piano, & lead sheets, free!
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Waltzing Matilda Song: Lyrics, Melody & Guitar Tabs
Waltzing Matilda is a popular Australian song in my studio. Guitar players, singers, & pianists all love it! Download free sheet music & guitar tabs PDFs here.
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The Wild Mountain Thyme Song: Sheet Music for Guitar, Voice, & Piano
The Wild Mountain Thyme song has appealing Irish lyrics, and a beautiful melody. Download free tabs & sheet music for yourself or your students!
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Baby Shark Sheet Music: Easy PDF 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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Imperial March Epic Theme from Star Wars for Piano!
Imperial March Star Wars easy piano arrangement of Darth Vader's Theme! Fraught with power & significance, your students will love this EASY approach.
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I'll Love My Love Piano/Violin Duet Sheet Music PDF
A gorgeous piece from Gustav Holst's Second Suite for Band, arranged for two violins. Perfect for players learning 3rd position, wanting a lovely song. Free PDF
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Free Blank Guitar Chords Charts for Your Own Chords!
Free guitar chord chart blanks for guitar teachers: fill in these printable blank chord charts for your guitar students.
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The Wellerman Sea Shanty Sheet Music: Piano & Leads!
The Wellerman sheet music: tabs, chords & lyrics for piano, guitar, & lead! A fun sea shanty to sing & play - 7 versions, including one with note names.
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My singer is not properly caring for their voice
Hi, I’m Ms. Edinbourough, and I have a beautiful singer who is promising, and a star, but who isn’t taking care of her voice. She is not even able to sing
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Free & Easy Beginner Piano Songs Sheet Music PDFs
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 piano duet!
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Old Joe Clark Boogie Piano Sheet Music for Beginners
Old Joe Clark piano music for beginners is a winner! With goofy yrics, a step-wise melody, & great rhythm, it's a fun solo or duet. Bonus: it's easy to play!
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Unchained Melody Piano Sheet Music, Chords & Lyrics
Unchained Melody: an intermediate-level arrangement that captures the beauty & power of this song, in a version suited to piano. What do I mean? No triplets!
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Thank you so much for the rounds!
Hi Dana, I am just writing to thank you for the free rounds for singing -- I have put up my hand to lead folk songs and hymns for my Christian homeschool
Teacher
I stumbled upon this site by accident, and am very glad I did. As a bumbling untrained music teacher, I like your hints about how to teach - although I
Auld Lang Syne Sheet Music PDFs: for All Instruments & Singers!
Auld Lang Syne sheet music for New Year's Eve & other gatherings! Piano arrangements, guitar tabs, & lead sheets with chords in many keys, for all singers.
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Favorite Christmas Songs: Duet Vocal Sheet Music
The best duet Christmas songs are those ones you knew & loved as a child! This set of 14 "a capella" carols arranged for 2 voices is just right for caroling!
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"Walking In the Air" Piano Music from The Snowman
This sparkling piano arrangement of the main musical theme from The Snowman will win your students' hearts and imaginations, too, with its soaring beauty!
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Moonlight Sonata: How to Play Beethoven's Lovely Piece
Moonlight Sonata: How to play this beautiful but difficult piece full of black keys & triplets? With larger-than-usual notes, & letters inside the note heads!
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Singing In a Round: "Come Away" Has Six Possible Parts!
Singing in a round is a fun challenge for voice students! This pretty song, "Come Away," can be sung with as few as 2 voices, or as many as 6. Free PDFs!!
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How to Teach Voice Lessons for the First-Time Teacher
How to teach voice lessons, when you are a beginning teacher? Get some tips to quell your fears at this new venture! Warmups, rounds, duets, & solos, free!
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Find Home School & Other Students, & Teach Them Music!
Let me give you suggestions on how to find music students in a new town. Parents want qualified, fun teachers for their kids - meet them where they are!
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Traditional Irish Sheet Music: White, Orange & Green
Free Irish sheet music, the beautiful White, Orange, & Green tells the story of a daring young Irish girl, who defends her country's flag!
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Vocalises for Beginners: Encouraging Them to Sing With Resonance!
Vocalises for beginners to help them sing with resonance. Encourage students to imitate weird but useful sounds to bring "ringiness" to their voice!
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Blow Ye Winds: a Sea Shanty Arranged for Piano Solos & Duet!
Blow Ye Winds is an old whaling song with a robust melody. Get free piano solo & duet sheet music for beginners to intermediate students!
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How to Remember Guitar String Names: a Guide for Kids
How to remember the guitar's string names? Give kids a printable acrostic guide they can look at each lesson and practice session until they have memorized it!
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Piano Music Sheets for Beginners: I'm a Pirate for Piano
Piano music sheets for beginners "I'm a Pirate", with beginner & elementary solo piano arrangements, and also piano duets!
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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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nice blog, I take attention to my national music songs and I love it connects with my emotions & moods also
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 so many 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.
Comments: Do you have a story or a question about music teaching? Share it!
Please note that all comments are moderated, and will not appear until I have approved them. Also, IF YOU ARE ASKING FOR MUSIC THAT IS NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, YOUR REQUEST WILL BE IGNORED. That's pretty much any music written in the last 75 years...
What Other Visitors Have Said
Click below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...
the music sheets are awesome Not rated yet
nice blog, I take attention to my national music songs and I love it connects with my emotions & moods also
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Best Broadway Musicals List - My Top Favorite Shows
This Broadway musicals list features the songs I've found to be most singable, easily learned, & beloved among my own students. Also, warnings of some pitfalls! -
Classical Piano Sheet Music: Download Free PDF Pieces
Classical piano sheet music - 1 or 2 page intros, & some longer. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart & more - bite-size classics for beginning & advancing players.