The Wellerman Sheet Music
The Wellerman: sheet music, guitar tabs & lyrics for guitar, piano & other instruments. Now with an alphanote arrangement for piano students still struggling with the bass clef notes.
An arrangement for early intermediate piano
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This is such a fun, high-energy song to sing & play!
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For the bass line, before you have elementary students try to figure out the left hand, have them just play single bass notes whenever they see a chord symbol. That is a good way to warm up to a 2-handed arrangement.
An arrangement with lettered notes
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This song went viral
This is SOOO fabulous! Your students, once they've heard it, are going to be singing it and wanting to play it.
A version with guitar tabs
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An easy melody for guitar, and only one "hard" chord! A good opportunity to practice the F chord.
Lead sheets in 2 keys, Am & Dm
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A goofy video with a cat
This rendition of The Wellerman is not as polished as the one above, but it's so fun - perhaps my favorite!
Hidden chord shapes in the melody
Keep your eye on the chord outlines that make up this melody, and point them out to your students - or say to them, "Look at me play this part... what did I just play?"
A A A C E E E.... F D D F A... There are several places like that, and only one real scale, the descending passage at the ends of the verses and chorus. Knowing these, and seeing these, may help your student more easily conquer this melody with its thirds and fourths and fifths.
The melody for beginners
How nice - this melody fits beautifully the Middle C area for a beginner, with the right hand thumb on Middle D instead of C.
You can find the Middle C version of The Wellerman with note names in all the note heads on the page Note-Naming Worksheets.
Ask your students to sing along
It helps VERY MUCH to sing or even speak the words as you are playing the melody; even little boys in a hurry will notice if they have missed a note or two when they are trying to match the lyrics, and may slow down to fix that! (True story.)
The links for the piano music:
The Wellerman sheet music for piano and voice in Am
The piano arrangement with letters inside all the notes
The Wellerman song in the key of Dm
Middle C arrangement, shared-hands melody
The link for the guitar tabs arrangement:
Download the guitar tablature version, in Am
The links for the lead sheets:
Wellerman lead in the key of Dm
Dianna:
Your website is a light in the darkness. THANK YOU for all you do in helping to spread the love of music. It matters!
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