Description

This pre-staff Christmas piano sheet music collection, “Nutcracker Suite”, includes 9 pieces from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.

Each piece in this Nutcracker Suite pre-staff piano sheet music collection has been carefully arranged and edited especially for beginning piano students and introduces students to the beautiful music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

With titles such as Miniature Overture, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Dance of the Reed Flutes, Waltz of the Flowers, and more, this piano book is designed to provide a solid foundation for beginning piano students while offering a festive, Christmas-themed learning experience.

The entire collection of pre-reading solos can be performed by one student or a group of students in the order presented in the book, or any order of your choosing.

The pieces can also be performed individually and are fantastic options for a Christmas piano recital.

 

Key Features of this Nutcracker Suite Pre-Staff Piano Sheet Music:

• 9 pre-staff arrangements from The Nutcracker Suite, with letters inside the note heads:
  • No staff with and without clipart
  • On staff with and without clipart
• Clean, distraction-free layout with ample white space
• One colorful graphic per page (black and white version has no clipart)
• Simplified notation for early beginners
• 5 pieces are 16 measures and 4 pieces are 32 measures

 

Titles of the Nutcracker Piano Solos:

• Miniature Overture
• March
• Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
• Spanish Dance (Chocolate)
• Russian Dance (Trepak)
• Arabian Dance (Coffee)
• Chinese Dance (Tea)
• Dance of the Reed Flutes
• Waltz of the Flowers

 

Musical Elements Included in the Nutcracker Suite Pre-Staff Piano Sheet Music:

• Note values: Quarter, half, dotted half, and whole notes
• Rests: Quarter and half rests
• Helper letters (Alphanotes, letters inside the note heads) for easy note identification
• Barlines, double barlines, repeat signs
• Ties
• Sharps and flats (finger numbers are suggested but may be changed at the teacher’s discretion)
• Right hand (stem-up) and left hand (stem-down) notation
• Minimal finger numbers within each piece
• Keyboard diagram shows finger numbers for the piano keys that are used in each piece

 

Nutcracker Suite Pre-Staff Piano Sheet Music Characteristics:  

• Single-note melodies
• Steps and skips within each hand
• Leaps between hands
• Leaps within the hand

 

Customization Options for this Nutcracker Suite Pre-Staff Piano Sheet Music:

Teachers may add the following elements at their discretion:

• Clefs (book uses R.H. and L.H. indicators instead)
• Dynamics
• Articulation marks
• RH./L.H. reading aid: Have students circle R.H. (stem-up) notes with one color, and L.H. (stem-down) notes with another color

 

Teach Beginners to Play Musically with 3 Music Rules

I firmly believe that all students are musical.

Even if they don’t know how to play musically at first, they can be taught how to play musically.

We just need to provide them with the necessary information and tools at their level in ways that are easy for them to understand and use.

To help my beginners play musically from the very beginning, I introduce them to 3 Music Rules.

You can learn more about these rules and download a set of free posters by reading 3 Simple Rules to Help Your Piano Students Play Musically.

Use the 3 Music Rules to teach your students to play the pieces from this set of pre-staff Christmas piano sheet music musically.

 

Why your piano students will love this Nutcracker Suite pre-staff piano sheet music:

• 9 beautiful pieces to play
• Lovely set of familiar Christmas pre-staff piano sheet music
• Large notation with easy-to-read letters inside the note heads
• Plenty of white space on each page eliminates distractions and helps students maintain focus on what’s important.
• Your online students will love this pre-staff sheet music as much as your in-person students will.
• Easy to 3-hole punch and keep in their piano binders or bind with my favorite binding machine and reusable binding spines.

 

❤️ Related resources you’ll love!

• 5 Sight-Reading Games for Piano – Feed the Nutcracker Pre-Staff to Intermediate Bundle
• Nutcracker Piano Keys Are A Breeze – Christmas Piano Keyboard Music Worksheets
• Easy Christmas Piano Practice Craft – Gnome For The Holidays Practice Chart

 

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