Traditional Irish Song
"Galway Piper"

Traditional Irish songs tend to be either bouncy, or tender & sweet. Galway Piper falls into the bouncy, fun-to-play camp!

Irish song

The melody is composed almost entirely of scale patterns, with a few chord-based skips here and there.  It's easy to spot the G chord fragments, which will help with memorizing the piece.

Irish kid's song

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Page two, right hand, is a repeat of page one, but the left hand drops down an octave and uses open fifths, giving us a bigger sound.

Almost every bit of the left hand is a G or D chord shape - very easy!

The same arrangement, with lettered notes

Galway Piper piano music

Your students may not need the help of any of these lettered notes - but if some of your pianists play much better than they can read - very common! - then this version with lettered notes might save them LOTS OF TIME.  And you, too!

Eventually, they will memorize these notes, particularly when they appear over and over again as in the phrases of Galway Piper.

Irish piano song

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For beginners, a Middle C arrangement

Easy piano Irish song

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The timing is different

You will notice that the rhythm appears quite different.  Commonly, I do double the note values for beginner students so that they are able to count the notes out at home for themselves.  It's not as if they will be able to play it quickly at first, anyway!  

By the time they get faster at it, they will no longer need to be counting.

Chord symbols - why?

Use the chord symbols to make a duet for you and your student.  You can trade places with them on the piano bench, too, and have them play chords while you play the melody!

I like to use open 5ths for Irish-sounding music, but if this is a bit of a stretch for your student, then single bass notes instead of two or three note chords will also sound impressive to your pupil.

Duets are fun!  And fun is why kids want to take piano lessons, don't you think?


The piano arrangement shown in the video:


Download Galway Piper traditional Irish song for piano


The AlphaNotes version for elementary piano:


Download Irish kid's song with lettered notes


The first-year student arrangement:


Download Galway Piper with shared-hands melody


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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