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 .

The arrangements in Christmas: Songs on the Black Keys are great for new beginner piano students who can read using finger numbers on the black keys, but aren\'t ready to make the jump to reading with all alpha notes. For example, songs like \"O Christmas Tree\" introduce the B and F keys, but keeps the rest of the fingers on the black keys.

Every song has an illustration of the hand position. Notes are color-coded by hand-- green for right hand and red for left hand. Illustrations of each hand are also included at the start of each song which is vital for those pre-school kids that still have trouble telling right from left. The result is a set of songs attractive and playable for beginners of all ages.

Lyrics included with most songs. Some songs contain religious content. Check my profile for the secular version.

26 pages, landscape. Easy for pre-readers and beginners.

Preschool. Finger numbers. Pre-staff / prestaff, pre-reader / prereader, pre-reading / prereading. Beginner. Late beginners.


Contents:
1. Jolly Old St. Nicholas
2. Up on the Housetop
3. Go Tell It on the Mountain
4. Jingle Bells
5. We Three Kings
6. O Christmas Tree
7. O Come All Ye Faithful
8. Dance of the Reed Flutes
9. Arabian Dance - duet
10. Chinese Dance - duet
11. Deck the Halls

A collection of EASY piano arrangements of Christmas Carols suitable for beginning piano students. These arrangements all include detailed fingering to help the students--especially in those spots where crossing under/over or extended positions are used. There's a total of 17 traditional carols including: Angels We Have Heard on High, Away in a Manger, Deck the Halls, The First Noel, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Good King Wenceslas, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, Jingle Bells, Joy to the World, O Christmas Tree, O Come All Ye Faithful, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Silent Night, We Three Kings, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, and What Child Is This?

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.

This collection includes nine familiar Christmas favorites: Jingle Bells, We Three Kings, O Christmas Tree, Russian Dance (from "The Nutcracker"), Deck the Halls, Joy to the World, Away in a Manger, Silent Night, and Carol of the Bells. These student-friendly arrangements feature large print and have fingerings clearly marked.

This collection is appropriate for students in level 1 and 2 of most method books. Some of the concepts encountered include: simple position shifts, finger crossings, intervals up to a fifth, root position chords, and eighth notes. There is also one piece each in F major, G major, and A minor. See samples of each piece and hear each piece performed in its entirety in the sample video.

Need an even easier Christmas collection? Take a look at my "First Christmas Favorites" for beginner piano!