A Christmas favorite arranged with jazzy flair! First- or second-year students with a solid grasp of rhythm and note reading will love learning this performance-ready rendition filled with syncopation, staccatos, and mini chromatic passages. Jingle Bell Jazz is an excellent choice for beginner students performing at a Christmas recital or for their families during the holiday season.
Deck the Halls is a popular Christmas carol even among young pianists. The familiar tune is a great tool for teaching dotted quarter note rhythms. Written in C Major position (with some RH movement), this arrangement is perfect for a beginner playing at their first Christmas recital.
The Cradle Song melody by William Kirkpatrick celebrates the arrival of the baby Jesus in the stable at Bethlehem. This arrangement is perfect for a beginner student’s first Christmas performance, with a single-note melody, an 8va repeat, and a few harmonies at the finish.
In this traditional arrangement, the heavenly hosts can be heard in joyous salute heralding the first Christmas. Perfect for a first-year student as a solo recital piece or simply to celebrate the season.
Enjoy this FREE Halloween- and autumn-related image that helps new musicians identify their basic rhythms! This hand-drawn image helps with recognition of basic rhythms, including whole, half, and quarter notes and rests.
Comes as two PDF digital downloads: one with American standard terms (whole, half, quarter) and a second one using UK/International rhythm terms (semibreve, minim, crotchet).
This Product comes with a studio license that allows you as a teacher to share this copy with any number of your own students through the coming years. May not be shared with other teachers or non-students.
Get 10 Color By Note images in the Halloween Bundle!
Enjoy this FREE Halloween image that helps new musicians identify their bass clef note names! This hand-drawn image helps with recognition of the Bass Clef notes Middle C, B, A, G, and F.
Comes as two PDF digital downloads: one with American spelling (“Color”) and a second one with UK/Australian spelling (“Colour”).
This Product comes with a studio license that allows you as a teacher to share this copy with any number of your own students through the coming years. May not be shared with other teachers or non-students.
Get 10 Color By Note images in the Halloween Bundle!
Enjoy this FREE Halloween- and autumn-related image that helps new musicians identify their treble clef note names! This hand-drawn image helps with recognition of the Treble Clef notes Middle C, D, E, F, and G. These notes appear as different note values (whole, half, or quarter notes) for an added challenge.
Comes as two PDF digital downloads: one with American spelling (“Color”) and a second one with UK/Australian spelling (“Colour”).
This Product comes with a studio license that allows you as a teacher to share this copy with any number of your own students through the coming years. May not be shared with other teachers or non-students.
Get 10 Color By Note images in the Halloween Bundle!
Celebrate Halloween with 10 “Color By Note” music theory pages of Halloween- and autumn-related images to help musicians identify note names and rhythm values!
All images are hand-drawn and have been enthusiastically received by students in my own music studio and others.
UK/International Terms version available (see below).
Bundle includes:
* 5 note-name images have only one note value while the other 4 images include various note values for an added challenge.
All theory pages are in black & white / grayscale. No color ink required. (Color ink recommended for printing Answer Key.)
This Product comes with a studio license that allows you as a teacher to share these pages with any number of your own students through the coming years. May not be shared with other teachers or non-students.
One of the most well-known Christmas carols in the modern world, Jingle Bells is played at almost every Christmas piano recital anywhere. With the verse in Middle C Position and the chorus in C Major Position, this classic take on Jingle Bells is ideal for beginners learning to navigate their way around the keys.
Who doesn’t love the thrill of finding that one perfect pumpkin and planning how you’ll carve the best Jack-O-Lantern in your neighborhood? To help new pianists not “fear” a challenging key signature, “Pumpkin Patch” combines a rhythmic staccato feel with a catchy melody and lyrics that remind you of everything fun about visiting the pumpkin patch in autumn.
With flickering eyes like witch hats and a fearsome pointy-toothed grin, Jack-O-Lantern chants his scary song from the front porch steps as All Hallow’s Eve begins. This composition combines bass Left Hand minor melody, black keys, spooky seconds, minor triads, and staccatos to capture the delightfully frightful spirit of the holiday.
Whether they’re raiding your candy bag or tying your shoelaces together, these mischievous little hobgoblins put the “trick” in “trick-or-treat”! You might feel a little hobgoblin coming out in you when you play this delightfully spooky composition.
What’s that sound?! In a haunted house, you never know what might be lurking around the corner about to jump out and petrify you. This composition will have your fingers taking turns tiptoeing, jumping, and shouting with fright.
Like a spider busily spinning its web, the fingers of the right hand chromatically spin their way up and down the keys. The Left Hand accompaniment is simple so that the beginner pianist can focus on fingering and speed in this chromatic composition.
This ethereal minor lullaby heralds the arrival of All Hallow’s Eve. Even very early beginners can play this composition written with single-note melody, stepwise reading, one black key, and one RH crossover at the end.
These wide-eyed, spiky-backed creatures cause trouble for machinists, inventors, and the whole modern world. A short composition that’s just right for early beginners, Gremlins introduces eighth notes, accidentals, steps, and skip patterns with directional reading.
This traditional English carol tells the story of that first Christmas night long ago. This arrangement performs well as a lovely piano solo for a late beginner pianist and helps with pedaling, different rhythms in the left/right hands, and right hand scale fingering.
This arrangement comes in two different versions: one in D Major and one transposed to C Major. The Single-User License is available in either key. The Studio License comes with both versions.
The hypnotic powers of this archetypal vampire will capture the minds of your listeners as you play his portentous waltz. This composition featuring bass Left Hand melody is for any Halloween-loving pianist who wants something fun and easy to learn.
As the monsters, bats, ghouls, and more come out to roam, this composition will get you right in the October spirit. Skips, thirds, and Left Hand/Right Hand unison teach valuable fingering techniques in a fun-spirited way through this song filled with Halloween rhymes for Halloween-times.
Chromatic passages in the right hand feel like a spider spinning its web while supported by ominous three-note chords in the left hand. (Just keep an eye out for those tricky passages that look chromatic but aren’t!)
From the California Coast to the harbors of Maine, America the Beautiful stands as a symbol of American patriotism. Perfect for the 4th of July (or any day of the year!), this arrangement embodies the patriotic spirit with bold dynamics and full four-note chords that inspire a bright future of freedom and brotherhood.
A spinoff of the classic 12-bar blues, “Tombstone Boos” helps newer pianists swing their way into the Halloween season. A spine-tingling jazzy chord closes out this late beginner number filled with syncopation, swing rhythm, hand movement, and more.
* The Studio License comes with two versions: one with the C minor key signature and one with no key signature (all accidentals). The Single-User License comes with one version that has no key signature (all accidentals). Both versions sound the same when played.
A classic take on a popular short carol, this arrangement starts with single-note melody and adds accompaniment little by little, building to a fuller sound. It all comes together with a final dramatic molto ritardando, fermata, and octave jumps to finish with a flair.
“Double, double, toil and trouble…” Witches of all ages will love brewing up a magic potion that will surely bring all listeners under their power! This spellbinding composition is written with a mysterious melody floating high above the treble clef while the left hand waltzes below in minor.