Piano Notes for Kids
The Music Alphabet
Piano notes for kids in the song "The Music Alphabet" can help beginners relate note reading to the piano keyboard!
I wrote this little song for someone who is brand-new to note reading and even the names of the piano keys, but who has an analytical mind, and finds exercises intriguing rather than tedious!
My husband, in other words, whose brain is ahead of his fingers.
A new musician, he is struggling to combine fingers with piano keyboard with note reading! So perhaps "Piano Notes for Kids" should be changed to "for kids of all ages... "
Please scroll down the page for the download links.
Okay - how should this song be attempted for a beginner piano player? Simple as this song is, to be able to play The Music Alphabet, students must:
- Be able to find Middle C on the piano keyboard
- Be able to identify Middle C on the grand staff
- Understand the layout of the grand staff, and where left & right hand "territories" lie
- Be able to follow a line of notes up and down (for help with that, acquaint them with "Wormies")
- Be able to read at least well enough to say "A, B, C, D, E, F, G!"
And you can probably think of more things...
So how would I start with this piece? Although the words of the song say "Place your thumbs on Middle D," it doesn't have to happen that way.
A student could just play the whole song with "pointer" finger, with one hand. That might make sense.
I said "thumbs on middle D" because I know what happens when the thumbs share Middle C; the right hand always plays the C even if it is written for the bass clef to play.
My husband thought this was fun to play; what I think is fun is being able to recite the musical alphabet forwards and backwards 3 times in a row very fast, so that you can carry that skill to the piano keyboard and look at the piano keys and know what the names of the keys are, going left down the keyboard.
Hope some of your students find this piece helpful and even a little bit fun!
The link for the piano music:
Download piano notes for kids song "The Music Alphabet"
More songs especially for new beginners:
Black Keys songs - songs set to lyrics and poems, all on black keys!
God Is So Good - a sweet song with just five notes.
Monsters Everywhere - this is a very easy Halloween song that moves carefully in steps.
Interested in songs from the Bible for your students or church? Check out my other website, SingTheBibleStory.com!
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All the first-year material I give my beginner students.
Piano keyboard sheets, scales, chords, note-reading exercises, and over 256 pages of music!
This beautiful song book for piano & voice "Esther, For Such a Time as This", available as a digital download, tells the riveting story of the time when Jews in ancient Persia faced a foe named Haman, and how a brave young queen risked her life to save her people.
A good choice for a singing story-teller, an operatic group, a short theater production, or a class of children!
This book is also available from Amazon as a paperback.
This book is available as a digital download from this site. Visit this page to see some free examples from the book.
It is also available from Amazon as a paperback!
This is the perfect easy start for little pianists.
And when they start reading white-key notes on the staff, this is a fun easy resource to say each week, "Choose a new black-key song at home this week and figure it out to show me next lesson!" They will be spending more time at the piano.
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!
Fro So:
You've done here a very good job! The most useful website for beginners in teaching!
Caroline:
I was looking for some easy (classical) pieces to play that wouldn't require much prep.
I hit the jackpot here with classical and other, Celtic, lovely tunes! Thanks again!
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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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