Here?sa bright and attractive collection of twenty traditional Christmas songs andcarols intended for the elementary pianist or keyboard player. The notation is kept as simple as possible and musical elements such as dynamics,articulations, phrasing and slurs are omitted completely. The piano part,which also includes chords, is printed in large type.It's an ideal item for schools, and especially piano teachers for some seasonal sight-reading for students. The chords are printed below the stave rather than above, to allow space for fingering suggestions. Fingerings are omitted during repeated passages or when the fingering is considered obvious.

Elementarypianists rarely have the opportunity of playing in an ensemble. The mainfeature of Colin Kirkpatrick?s Really Easy Christmas Collectionis that it?s fully compatible with the Optional Instrumental Pack, a setof instrumental parts transposed for a selection of popular instruments. It is available here: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21394520 Whilethe Optional Instrumental Pack is primarily intended to play along withthe piano, the arrangements use flexible instrumentation and can be used entirely on their own without the keyboard part, thus giving you extra flexibility.

Thebook contains the following well-known Christmas carols and hymns: Angels fromthe Realms of Glory (Melody: Gloria); As with Gladness, Men of Old (Melody:Dix); Away in a Manger (Melody: Mueller); Deck the Halls (Melody: Nos Galan); Ding!Dong! Merrily on High (Melody: Bransle de l'Officiel); God Rest You Merry,Gentlemen (Melody: God Rest You Merry); Good Christians All Rejoice (Melody: InDulci Jubilo); Good King Wenceslas (Melody: Tempus Adest Floridum); Hark! TheHerald Angels Sing (Melody: Mendelssohn); I Saw Three Ships (Melody: I SawThree Ships); It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Melody: Carol); Joy to the World(Melody: Antioch); Oh Christmas Tree (Melody: Tannenbaum); Oh Come all yeFaithful (Melody: Adeste Fidelis); Once in Royal David's City (Melody: Irby); SilentNight (Melody: Stille Nacht); The First Nowell; The Holly and the Ivy (Melody:Holly and the Ivy); We Three Kings and WeWish You a Merry Christmas.

These 23 easy to play jazz chord arrangements, plus a bonus Sacred Holiday Medley, were created for the intermediate pianist. The melodies and rhythms are as you remember them, only the harmony has been changed from the traditional chords. Lyrics are included for sing-alongs. Finger numbers have been added to make learning even faster and easier. There is plenty of room left for the more advanced player to improvise. Please print with even numbered pages on the left and odd on the right. This will nearly eliminate page turns. The selections include: Angels We Have Heard on High , Auld Lang Syne, Away In A Manger, Deck The Halls, Go Tell It On The Mountain, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Good King Wenceslas, Hark, The Herald Angels Sing, Here We Come A-wassailing, I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, Jingle Bells, Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, Joy To The World, O Come, All Ye Faithful, Oh, Christmas Tree, Over the River and Through the Woods, Sacred Holiday Medley, Silent Night, The First Noel, Up On The Housetop, We Three Kings, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, and What Child Is This. There are 46 pages of music, 50 pages in all. If you enjoy these arrangements, please visit http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/Phil-Hamm-sheet-music/3002027 for all my offerings here at SheetMusicPlus. If you have any questions about this or my other arrangements, please contact me at my FaceBook page. https://www.facebook.com/phil.hamm.3 .