Piano Music Sheets for Beginners - "I'm a Pirate"
Piano music sheets for beginners "I'm a Pirate!" with SOLO arrangements for later elementary students..
"I'm a Pirate" also has a Secondo part for an older sibling (or a teacher) to go with the beginner arrangement, for a very fun duet!
First, the solos:
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A harder arrangement
And here is a much more difficult left hand part (showing just the first page of this two-page song):
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This arrangement is very fun!
You may think your young students won't play something with a leaping left hand like this. They might, if you have gotten them to put I Love the Mountains hands together!
On that page, I talk about using a bass note in the left hand, then a full triad in the right hand. But the final goal is to use the right hand to play just the melody, while left hand does the bass note PLUS the triad.
Letters in some of the noteheads
Piano music with letters takes the fear out of trying new music, and turns it into a challenging game. For earlier beginners, here is the first of three versions - with just a few alphanotes, and the rest standard notation:
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Learning to read the "music map"
Note that the song returns to the beginning of the piece at the bottom of the page and ends with the Fine at the end of line two. This is an opportunity to teach your little guys something new about "interpreting THE MAP" - the music page.
Da capo? From "the head" of the piece (as in "decapitate"). Fi-ne? The "Finish". Those are my crude translations of the D.C. and Fine instructions, but they are easy for children to remember.
Beginner version, no lettered notes
And below is the same song for more confident beginning piano students:
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I wrote this song for a little guy whose older brother has already taken all the "good" songs... he needs some that only he has played!
A Pirate duet!
Here's the same song, with a duet part below, entirely with letters in the notes:
Page 2, below, shows the "helper" version, with only a few lettered notes. Notice that the bass clef notes are almost entirely made-easy notes, though:
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The duet, for more confident note-readers
And here is the regular duet, with no lettered notes at all:
The links to the Pirate sheet music:
Download I'm a Pirate solo with easy left hand chords, Am
Download I'm a Pirate solo with fancy left hand, in Am
Download Middle C arrangement of Pirate piano music with letters in every note-head
Download Middle C piano music sheets for beginners "I'm a Pirate" with a few lettered notes
Download Middle C keyboard music notes for "I'm a Pirate" (no letters in the notes)
Download easy piano duet with alphanotes in both parts
Download beginner piano duet with some helper lettered notes
Download duet "I'm a Pirate" with regular standard notation
Check out more easy free songs with a reach of just 6 or 7 notes:
Canoe Song - full of energy and a feeling of the mystery of the woodlands of Canada.
Egyptian Dance - not as hard as it sounds! Very mysterious & beautiful.
I'm a Pirate - a good song for imaginative young kids! Several settings.
Indian Dance - one of the most popular & accessible songs for beginners here
Irish Wedding (easy version) - all my students want to play this high-energy song!
Kum Ba Yah - very pretty and easy - just 6 notes.
Lavender's Blue - young girls love this music, especially if they have seen Lily James' Cinderella!
Winds in the Willow - scale practice disguised as a mysterious, pretty minor melody.
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There are an incredible amount of people online who just want to be heard, but very few who have given what you have so clearly. Regarding instruction for those of us who can't afford lessons,your site has been a real gift to stumble across. I'm looking forward to now removing a few bad habits. My humblest thanks from Australia.
Carol:
I wanted to thank you.
Several of the songs on this site work so well for some of my picky students and the ones who don't practice a lot.
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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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