Description

This pre-staff piano Christmas sheet music collection, “Christmas Wonder”, includes 12 traditional Christmas songs for early beginners, written with finger numbers instead of note and rest values.

I arranged this pre-notation collection of finger number piano solos especially for my brand new 6-year-old student who started piano lessons in mid-November so she could participate in our Christmas recital in early December.

These pieces are great for very early beginners in their first few weeks of piano lessons, for preschoolers, or for anyone, including adults who don’t read music, who would like to play familiar Christmas songs with ease.

With titles such as Up On the Housetop, Jolly Old St. Nicholas, Away In A Manger, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Tchaikovsky’s Miniature Overture and Dance of the Reed Flutes from his Nutcracker Suite, and more, this pre-staff piano Christmas sheet music is designed to provide a solid foundation for early beginning piano students while offering a festive, Christmas-themed learning experience.

The pieces are fantastic options for a Christmas piano recital, winter performance, and more.

 

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

• 12 early pre-staff arrangements with finger numbers instead of note and rest values
• Clean, distraction-free layout with ample white space
• Presented in 4 ways:
  • With R.H. and L.H. color bars: red for R.H. and green for L.H., plus red and green finger numbers
  • With R.H. and L.H. color bars: red for R.H. and green for L.H., plus black finger numbers
  • Red and green finger numbers without R.H. and L.H. color bars
  • Black finger numbers without R.H. and L.H. color bars
• One colorful graphic per page
• Extremely simplified notation for very early beginners

 

Titles of the Finger Number Christmas Songs:

• Jolly Old St. Nicholas
• Up On the Housetop
• Deck the Halls
• Good King Wenceslas
• Angels We Have Heard On High
• Away In A Manger
• Go, Tell It On the Mountain
• In the Frosty Winter
• We Wish You A Merry Christmas
• Miniature Overture (from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker)
• Chinese Dance (Tea) (from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker)
• Dance of the Reed Flutes (from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker)

 

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

• Note values: Indicated by finger numbers with dashes. Each dash indicates to hold for one beat.
• Barlines, double barlines
• Keyboard diagram shows finger numbers for the piano keys that are used in each piece

 

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 Pre-Staff Piano Christmas Sheet Music:

Teachers may add the following elements at their discretion:

• Clefs (book uses R.H. and L.H. color indicators instead: red for R.H. and green for L.H.)
• Dynamics

 

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 solos musically.

 

Why your piano students will love this pre-staff piano Christmas 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!

• Nutcracker Piano Keys Are A Breeze – Christmas Piano Keyboard Music Worksheets
• Easy Christmas Piano Practice Craft – Gnome For The Holidays Practice Chart
• Nutcracker Suite Pre-Staff Piano Sheet Music – 9 Pre-Reading Solos for Christmas

 

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