All piano beginners look forward to the day when all their hard work has paid off. Learning the simple and easy to play songs might be perhaps the only thing that inspires your learning and helps express your knowledge to family, friends or at the community holiday mini concerts where you have at least gained something from your practices. You will soon discover the three simple songs that I personally suggest to my piano students for a festive period like Christmas.
The simple trick to playing any song in the shortest amount of time is to play it slowly at first, then gradually pick up the tempo. The Christmas songs suggested in the following paragraphs are no exception. They are easy to play due to the moderate tempo and simple fingering progressions.
So here’s the trick…
First Song: Silent Night (Classical)
It doesn’t matter how little you got through your piano lessons before you could play this song at the classical level. They are common songs that you must have heard more than ten times already. So now it recognizes the melody (the important part of all music), and you’ll just have to trace it first, and then try the I, IV, and V chord to hear if it matches.
Song Two: Away in a Manger
Away in a manger is the second easy song that I know every piano beginner can play with ease. The two things to do with this song piece are:
1. Rethink your melody, practice all the notes and
2. Secondly, apply the I, IV and V chord in chord or arpeggio form.
Song Three: Auld Lang Syne
This song may not be perceived one hundred percent as a Christmas song, it is traditional. I love listening to it over the Christmas period. It’s as easy as two other songs suggested above. The Auld Lang Syne tune has already been used with many different word letters. You can get the sheet music and lyrics for the music by searching the internet, but here is the tonic solfeggio for you to use:
South Dakota:. d. d:m:r:. d. to: sir d:. d. m:s:l:-:-d:s:. mm:d:r:. d. to: sir d:. ll:s:d:-:-l:s:. Mister. ha ha ha:. dr:l:s m. m: s:l:-: of: s:- m. m:d:r:d. r: sir: d.:l. LSD:-:-
Beyond the limits, there are other songs that are relatively easy to play and have fun with. Here are some of them that you can also practice:
12 days of ChristmasAll I want for Christmas are my two front teeth, Grandma was run overI’ll be home for Christmas Swinging around the Christmas treesilver bulls, white Christmaswinter wonderland
Even the great pianist played Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” very slowly at first, before bringing it up to full tempo. I know the need to play fast like the tutor, but it’s also important to play with discipline and patiently approach any piece of music like ABC.