Hi, I just found some small notes for beginners, especially for children courtesy of
Gilbert DeBenedetti . Just keep adding more stuff. Hope you like them!
Part I: First Pieces
You barely need to know how to read music to play these
Hot Cross Buns
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Au Clair de la Lune
Rain, Rain, Go Away
Jingle Bells (Short Version)
Aura Lee (Love Me Tender)
A Tisket, A Tasket
Ode to Joy
Good King Wenceslas
Row, Row, Row your Boat
For Health and Strength
We Three Kings (Short Version)
Bridal March
Mexican Hat Dance
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
Fais Dodo
Part II: Primer pieces
London Bridge
Yankee Doodle
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
The Chimes
Old MacDonald
Away in a Manger
The First Noel
Clementine, OR: Found a Peanut
Amazing Grace
We Gather Together
Oh, When the Saints
Alouette
Row, Row Row your Boat
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Ode to Joy
Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)
Theme to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
I Have a Little Dreidle
Jingle Bells
Part III: Level one
America, the Beautiful
(Have You Ever Thought)
As the Hearse Goes By
La Cucaracha
Chopsticks
Ode to Joy
Do Your Ears Hang Low?
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
O Christmas Tree
Lightly Row
Oh, When the Saints
Deck the Halls
From The New World Symphony: "Going Home" --by Dvorak
Theme to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
Ainsi Font, Font, Font (How They Dance, Dance)
Skip to my Lou
Jingle Bells
I've Been Working on the Railroad (Practice in bass clef)
Part IV: Level Two
This Old Man
Au Clair de la Lune
Old MacDonald
Oh When the Saints
Sur le Pont d'Avignon
My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)
Bridal March
Ode to Joy
We Three Kings
Mexican Hat Dance
A Mighty Fortress is Our God
The Barn Cat
NEW! Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Morning Song -by Grieg
Silent Night
Joy to the World
The Star-Spangled Banner
Part V: Level three
O Canada!
Tete, Epaules, Genoux et Pieds (Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes)
Oh Hanukah
Brahms' Lullaby
Waltzing Matilda
Pachelbel's Canon (Canon in D)
Cripple Creek
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
My Grandfather's Clock
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Chinese Folk Song
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Shuha D-Maryam (A Song for the Virgin Mary)
Ave Maria
The Entertainer
The Moonlight Sonata (Shorter arrangement. See also Level 4.)
Part VI: Level four
Toreador from Carmen --by Bizet
Habanera from Carmen --by Bizet
Greensleeves
Rock Solid Blues A DeBenedetti Original!
The Four Seasons: Autumn --by Vivaldi
Amazing Grace
Carribean Cruise A DeBenedetti Original!
Moonlight Sonata (long arrangement)
Part VII: Keyboard Classics
From: Sonatina in C --by Latour
Minuet in F --by Leopold Mozart
Russian Folk Song -- by Beethoven
Minuet in G --by J.S. Bach Short version. See the complete Minuet below
Rondino --by Rameau
Musette --from the Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach
Für Elise --by Beethoven
Arabesque --by Burgmuller
Soldier's March --by Robert Schumann
Minuet in G (with arpeggios) from the notebook of A.M. Bach
Romanze (from Sonatina in G) --by Beethoven
Spinning Song --by Ellmenreich
Sonatina No.1, First Movement --by Muzio Clementi
Minuet in G (complete) from the Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach --by J. S. Bach
Prelude in C from the Well Tempered Clavier --by J.S. Bach
Ballade --by Burgmuller
