Description

This studio-licensed pre-staff Christmas piano sheet music collection, “Snowflakes Sing”, includes 4 original pre-reading solos and 6 traditional solos for beginning piano students.

This collection of pre-staff Christmas solos includes a variety of familiar and original, secular and sacred, and serious and fun songs.

I’ve included 6 familiar songs that children love and want to play, including “Up on the Housetop”, “Deck the Halls”, and “Jolly Old St. Nicholas”.

This collection also includes 4 original pieces that I composed: “Candy Cane Crunch”, “Christmas Magic”, “Gingerbread Cookies”, and “Snowflakes Sing”.

Some of these songs are light and playful, such as “Candy Cane Crunch”, featuring lyrics that describe a child’s favorite aspects of eating a candy cane.

Others have a deeper message such as “Go, Tell It On the Mountain” and “Snowflakes Sing”, which celebrate the birth of Jesus.

 

Key Features of this Pre-Staff Christmas Piano Sheet Music:

• 4 original Christmas-themed pre-staff songs and 6 traditional songs:
  • 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

 

Titles of the Christmas Piano Solos:

• Jolly Old St. Nicholas
• Up On the Housetop
• Deck the Halls
• Good King Wenceslas
• Go, Tell It On the Mountain
• In the Frosty Winter
• Gingerbread Cookies
• Christmas Magic
• Candy Cane Crunch!
• Snowflakes Sing

 

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

• Note values: Quarter, half, dotted half, and whole notes
• Rests: Quarter and half rests
• Helper letters (Alphanotes) for easy note identification
• Barlines and double barlines
• Tie
• 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

 

Pre-Staff Christmas Piano Sheet Music Song Characteristics:

• Single-note melodies (except for harmonic 2nds in “Christmas Magic”)
• Steps and skips within each hand
• Leaps between hands
• Some songs include leaps within the hand
• Child-friendly lyrics

 

Customization Options for this Pre-Staff Christmas 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 orange, and L.H. (stem-down) notes with black

 

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 pre-staff Christmas piano sheet music:

• 6 traditional and 4 original Christmas songs to play
• Large notation with easy-to-read letters inside the note heads
• Lyrics written from a child’s perspective of Christmas
• Familiar and new Christmas songs to play
• 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 Christmas sheet music as much as your in-person students will.
• Easy to 3-hole punch and keep in their piano binders

 

❤️ Related resources you’ll love!

• Beginner Piano Keyboard Music Worksheets – Gingerbread Piano Keys Are A Breeze
• Easy Christmas Piano Practice Craft – Gnome For The Holidays Practice Chart
• Elementary Music Symbols Christmas Game – I Have Who Has? Holiday Piano Activity

 

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