Kum Ba Yah Sheet Music
Kum Ba Yah is a familiar church & camp song - give this easy & pretty music to your students!
- Several versions for piano,
- three keys for guitar, and
- lead sheets in six keys.
Please scroll down the page for the download links.
This is a very simple piano arrangement of Kum Ba Yah, with plain basic piano chords and inversions.
It's good practice for using these basic and necessary chords. If your student can play the easy version of Lavender's Blue hands together, she can play this too.
Middle C arrangements
For students wanting to play this melody who are just beginners, try the easy arrangements below. Shown is the "helper" version, with a few notes containing letter names:
Please scroll down the page for the download links.
Just 3 chords plus tabs make it easy for guitar
For beginning guitar players, this is a great learning song.
Except for the "F" chord in the key of C, all chords used in these three arrangements are EASY. Plus, the song is slow enough that beginning finger-pickers can get some practice, for the sake of variety from verse to verse.
Please scroll down the page for the download links.
Lead sheets for treble instruments
Below are lead sheets with chords in seven keys:
The links for the piano music:
Download easy piano music for Kum Ba Ya
Download Middle C arrangement of Kum Ba Yah
Download same arrangement with AlphaNotes (letters in the noteheads)
Download version with just a few letters in the notes
The links to the guitar tabs:
Download sheet with guitar tablature for Kum Ba Yah in the key of C
Download music for guitar in the key of D
Download Kum Ba Ya for guitar in the key of G
The lead sheet links:
Download lead sheet music for Kum Ba Yah in the key of A
Download lead sheet in the key of Bb
Download Kum Ba Yah lead sheet in the key of C
Download lead sheet music in D
Download Kum Ba Ya sheet music in the key of Eb
Download sheet music for Kum Ba Yah in the key of F
Download lead Kum Ba Yah in the key of G
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