Beginning pianists will love these 20 holiday favorites, including Silent Night; O, Come All Ye Faithful; Jingle Bells; and more. Each of the melodies features a free MP3 download.
A fun and easy way to learn to play the piano or keyboard, with helpful instruction on classic and favorite songs. Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced piano teacher, the Play It! books teaches how to play the piano or keyboard in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include piano sheets of popular and favorite songs as well as a primer on how to read sheet music and some basic techniques. For beginners ages 5 and up, Play It! is the perfect companion on your musical journey.
(Faber Piano Adventures ). Written for ages 5 and 6, My First Piano Adventure captures the child's playful spirit. Fun-filled songs, rhythm games and technique activities develop beginning keyboard skills. Three distinguishing features of the Lesson Book A make it unique and effective for the young 5-6 year old beginner. 1. A strong focus on technique embedded in the book through playful technique games, chants, and carefully-composed pieces that gently lead the child into pianistic motions. 2. An outstanding CD for the young student to listen, sing, tap, and play along with at the piano. The orchestrated songs on the CD feature children singing the lyrics, which has great appeal to the 5-6 year old beginner. The CD becomes a ready-made practice partner that guides the student and parent for all the pieces and activities in the books. 3. The fanciful art features five multi-cultural children who are also learning to play. These friends at the piano introduce basic rhythms, white key names, and a variety of white and black-key songs that span classical, folk, and blues. Young students will listen, sing, create, and play more musically with Nancy and Randall Faber s My First Piano Adventure, Lesson Book A. The Lesson Book introduces directional pre-reading, elementary music theory and technique with engaging songs, games, and creative discovery at the keyboard. Young students will enjoy the multi-cultural "friends at the piano" who introduce white-key names, basic rhythms, and a variety of songs which span classical, folk, and blues. Ear-training and eye-training are also part of the curriculum. The Fabers' instructional theory "ACE" - Analysis, Creativity, and Expression, guides the pedagogy of My First Piano Adventure. Analysis leads to understanding, creativity leads to self-discovery, and expression develops personal artistry. The CD for this book offers a unique listening experience with outstanding orchestrations and vocals. The recordings demonstrate a key principle of the course: when children listen, sing, tap, and move to their piano music, they play more musically. View Helpful Introductory Videos Here
Easy Piano Sheet Music for Kids is a great first songbook for beginners. Songs on every page page have letters above each note to help children who are yet to learn how to read sheet music. Inside you will find 40 familiar favorites that are some of the most popular tunes for those beginning on piano or keyboard and are new to lessons. The following pieces are included: Mary Had a Little Lamb Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Happy Birthday Are You Sleeping? The Wheels on the Bus Itsy Bitsy Spider London Bridge Humpty Dumpty Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes When the Saints Go Marching In This Little Light of Mine I'm a Little Teapot This Old Man Jingle Bells Rock-A-Bye Baby Old MacDonald Had a Farm The Muffin Man Row, Row, Row Your Boat She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain Three Blind Mice Hickory, Dickory, Dock Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Bingo Ring a Ring of Roses If You're Happy and You Know It Rain, Rain, Go Away Silent Night Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Hot Cross Buns Pop Goes the Weasel Sing a Song of Sixpence For He's a Jolly Good Fellow Take Me Out to the Ballgame Yankee Doodle Hey Diddle Diddle We Wish You a Merry Christmas Skip to My Lou Polly Put the Kettle On I've Been Working on the Railroad Hush, Little Baby This is a great addition to your young one's beginner instruction as they start learning notes. For example, this works best for a toddler that has taken a piano lesson and then wants to play some childrens songs. Nursery rhyme primer books are great for kid keyboards and pianos alike. Beginners of all ages are welcome!
Easy Keyboard Sheet Music For Beginners simple and popular Christmas carols chords for the left hand finger numbers beautiful illustrations perfect for beginners great gift Contents: Angels from the Realms of Glory Angels We Have Heard On High As with Gladness Men of Old Auld Lang Syne Away in a Manger Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella Christ Was Born On Christmas Day Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus Coventry Carol Deck The Halls Ding Dong! Merrily on High! Go Tell It on the Mountain God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Good King Wenceslas Hark! The Herald Angel Sings I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day I Saw Three Ships In the Bleak Midwinter It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Jingle Bells Jolly Old St. Nicholas Joy to the World Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming O Christmas Tree O Come, All Ye Faithful O Come, Little Children O Come, O Come, Emmanuel O Holy Night O Little Town Of Bethlehem Once in Royal David's City Pat-a-Pan Silent Night The First Noel The Friendly Beasts The Holly and the Ivy Up on the Housetop We Three Kings Of Orient Are We Wish You a Merry Christmas What Child Is This? While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks Scroll Up and Buy Now ;)
(Fake Book). The 5th edition of this bestseller features 275 traditional and contemporary Christmas hits! Includes the melody line, lyrics and chords for: Away in a Manger * Blue Christmas * The Christmas Shoes * The Christmas Song * Coventry Carol * Deck the Hall * Do You Hear What I Hear * Feliz Navidad * Frosty the Snow Man * Fum, Fum, Fum * Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer * Happy Holiday * A Holly Jolly Christmas * I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day * I'll Be Home for Christmas * Jingle-Bell Rock * Jingle Bells * Joy to the World * Little Saint Nick * Merry Christmas, Darling * Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer * Silent Night * Silver Bells * Up on the Housetop * What Child Is This? * Wonderful Christmastime * more.
The dramatic overture had its beginnings in Renaissance court entertainments, which often began with a flourish of trumpets. It reached a high point of inspiration in the overtures that George Frideric Handel (1685 1759) composed for his operas and oratorios. This volume presents 60 Handel overtures and sinfonias, originally scored for orchestra, superbly arranged for solo keyboard. They have been reprinted from an extremely rare edition originally printed, probably in the 1750s, by Handel's London publisher, John Walsh. Happily, these brilliant works have lost nothing in translation of their Handelian vitality and interest. Many of them, such as the overtures to "Messiah, Acis and Galatea, Alexander s Feast, Julius Caesar, "the second overture in "Solomon" (known as the "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"), and the so-called Water Musick, are very familiar to music lovers. Some will be fresh discoveries for keyboard players. Together they demonstrate Handel s exciting theatrical sense, his technical virtuosity in composition, and his dazzling mastery of musical forms, which he often combined into his own unique creations. This edition preserves the original keyboard notation, amazingly precise in its elegant execution and, of course, entirely legible to present-day performers."
This book presents extended solo piano settings of eight Christmas favorites plus a new take on “Brahms’ Lullaby,” all with a touch of country keyboard technique. Each intermediate to advanced arrangement is replete with anticipatory grace notes, a bit of western swing harmony and rhythm in the classic country style popularized by Floyd Cramer. Author/arranger Devan Archer has added his own brand of challenging counterpoint. The “Nashville Sound” has long been a presence in gospel, pop and rock music but appears here in a Christmas repertoire, perhaps for the first time. “Good King Wenceslas” and “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” have never swung so hard! Includes access to online electronic audio.
My First Spirituals offers 12 delightful songs featuring 14 traditional spirituals with actions and activities for young children, ages 3-8. Here are some of the most beloved spirituals of all time, arranged for unison voices with keyboard and/or guitar accompaniment. Great for children's choir, Sunday school, Christian school, vacation Bible school or summer camp! Your children will love singing them both as informal fun songs" and in worship or chapel throughout the year! Reproducible lyric/coloring sheets included."