Best Piano Songs To Learn: For Children & Adults

Here are popular piano songs to learn on the piano, suitable for children as well as adults. We start with the easy songs and have also suggested songs for intermediate/advanced players

Easy Songs For Beginners to Learn on the Piano

Very easy songs that can be learnt and played on the piano.

• Chopsticks: Can be played with just two fingers.
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star/The Alphabet Song: These two songs have similar melody, so if if you learn to play one, you will also know how to play the oher one. The melody requires you to play six white notes.
• Jingle Bells: The first half is very easy to play. The complete song will take some time to learn
• Happy Birthday to You: slightly challenging the above ones, but it will make you the life of the party if you learn to play it.

In one of our earlier posts, I have mentioned how you should learn to play any new song on the piano.

More Popular Songs to Learn on the Piano

Here we’ll take a look at popular piano songs that you can start learning on the keyboard/piano.

There are many songs around the world that are ageless and also easy to play. songs like ‘My heart will go on’, ‘Somewhere out there’, ‘Unchained melody’, are just some of the timeless wonders but are actually simple compositions.

Here are some more cool piano songs to learn on the piano.

Take my Breath Away – Berlin
Easy to play (classic 80’s anthem) but sounds cool. Here’s a simple version that you can use.

Watch: Berlin – Take My Breath Away

Love me Tender – Elvis Presley
This is one of those popular, yet easy piano songs, that you can play from start to finish when you’re starting out, and of course its a great feeling and you get a great sense of achievement when you’re able to do that as a beginner.

Watch: Elvis Presley Love Me Tender

Bach/Gounod – Ave Maria
Top songs to learn on piano should also include classical, and not just popular songs. And this one if one of the most famous and recognized classical pieces in the whole piano repertoire. The original arrangement is quite long, but you can always play the opening and main theme.

Watch: Ave Maria – Bach/Gounod

Popular Classical Pieces to Learn on Piano

Easy classical songs / pieces that you can learn & play on the piano. Even if you are a newbie to classical music, you can still learn some beginner classical pieces, provided you can play beginner level songs on the piano.

Looking for more piano songs to learn in the classical genre? Here are some. These easy to play classical songs can be learnt in a short time. These songs are very melodious as well to hear. If you have the recordings of these songs, you can even listen to them during your study/work breaks to soothe and calm your mind.

• [easyazon_link identifier=”0739036882″ locale=”US” tag=”keytarhq04-20″ cart=”n”]’Notebook for Anna Magdalena'[/easyazon_link] (collection of keyboard music) by J.S. Bach (from the Baroque period). It contains several short pieces that can be used by students for keyboard study.
• [easyazon_link identifier=”B001EJGAZ0″ locale=”US” tag=”keytarhq04-20″ cart=”n”]Fur Elise by Beethoven[/easyazon_link] straddles the Classical as well as the Romantic worlds. Almost every piano student learns to play the famous Fur Elise (the main theme at least) and even the Moonlight Sonata (seems easy, but is lengthy for beginners).
• [easyazon_link identifier=”0793525969″ locale=”US” tag=”keytarhq04-20″ cart=”n”]’Songs Without Words’ by Mendelssohn[/easyazon_link] is a beautiful romantic solo work, suitable for intermediate level players (you may require to learn for 2-3 years before attempting this).
• [easyazon_link identifier=”B000FTP11E” locale=”US” tag=”keytarhq04-20″ cart=”n”]’Mikrokosmos’ by Bela Bartok[/easyazon_link] (twentieth century composer) has over a hundred and fifty modern pieces that provide keyboard players with unique rhythmic and harmonic challenges (keyboard students love lessons in harmony).

Here are some more.

• Clair de Lune (Easy Piano No.2) by Claude Debussy. Sheet Music for Easy Piano.
• The Blue Danube (Easy Piano No. 42) by Johann Strauss, Jr. Sheet Music for Easy Piano.
• Fur Elise – Easy Piano By Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), edited by Dale Tucker. Single piece for easy solo piano.
• Canon In D – Easy Piano By Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), arranged by Dan Coates. Single piece for easy solo piano.
• Easy Piano Classics Edited by James Bastien. Collection of solo piano for the older beginner.
• Twilight: The Score [SOUNDTRACK Audio CD] by Carter Burwell (Composer)

From the much talked about movie Twilight, this includes the hauntingly beautiful main theme – Bella’s lullaby

Bella’s Lullaby (from Twilight) By Carter Burwell.
Arranged by Paul Murtha. Score and full set of parts!

See Also
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Small Wins Keeps You Motivated

Here’s why its important to have a collection of easy Piano Songs handy. After all, its the small wins that keeps you motivated and also gives the confidence to attempt difficult piano pieces.

If you’ve started running, you just don’t attempt the marathon all of a sudden right? In a similar way, having access to some easy piano songs to play on your piano can be very useful for you piano practice.

Here are some of the reasons why you should have access to some easy to learn piano songs:

Gain Confidence
This is an important reason why you should attempt easy piano songs. To learn the piano you need to start with simpler pieces, and once you gain the confidence, you should attempt the bigger/greater piano works. Most songs in beginner piano books (at least the first few pages) have pieces that’re about eight-bars long; and then they start introducing the advanced concepts!

Learn the Basics
Most easy piano songs can be learned using just three or four chords (easy to manage with your left hand). Also, these songs make you accustomed to the commonly used keys & chords that are used in such tunes. For instance, ‘Chop sticks’, an easy piano classic is ideal for beginners as it teaches several important concepts, that can be used to play complicated compositions later on.

Expand Your Repertoire
Easy way to expand your existing repertoire. If you’re asked to play for an event in a few weeks, a couple of new simpler pieces can shore up our repertoire list without putting too much performance stress on ourselves.

Learn a New Genre
Simpler music works best when studying a new style or genre. It makes it easier to understand the style’s characteristics, scales, rhythms and arrangement techniques.

Sight Reading
A collection of easy songs to learn on piano also helps to in sight reading. Its best to have a big fat collection of piano works, consisting of few hundred simple pieces as well, that will provide you with a variety of sight reading material for your practice sessions.

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