Your beginner students need Christmas songs they can play, by Christmas!
Here’s an idea! On this page, I have a number of limited-range piano songs with note names inside the note heads. They are mostly set around Middle C, just where your beginners are probably working right now.
A list of easy-to-fairly-easy Christmas songs you’ll find there:
Hark How the Bells, beginner version.
Jingle Bells, of course...
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
O Christmas Tree, which uses treble A, and also ledger line D above Middle C. A learning opportunity!
Up On the Housetop
We Wish You a Merry Christmas - goes down to G
A sneak peek:
This beginner arrangement of the Ukrainian Bell Carol is HIGHLY POPULAR - I’ve never had a student turn it down. They work hard at it, too. (To many children, this is still known as “The Home-Alone” song!)
Old-fashioned, but charming.
More songs:
Deck the Halls, First Noel, God Rest You Merry Gentlemen, O Holy Night, Silent Night, and What Child is This are there as well, but have some difficulties for early beginners.
This music is all free to download, at Music-for-Music-Teachers.com, “Note-Naming Worksheets.”
Thank you Dana for these songs. The Bell Carol with that RH harmony is especially a new one for me, I look forward to trying it out.
Roni, UK