Tips for Finding Easy Piano Pieces to Play

Students always ask me where to find good piano pieces to play that are fun and aren’t too difficult to play. It can be challenging especially if you pick pieces that use techniques that you haven’t mastered yet.

Using the two main goals of…fun and easy… I’m going to provide you with some great resources today to help you find all the piano music you can imagine playing! You might want to bookmark these sites as you read through this so you can explore them more in depth at a later time; especially while watching the video at the end which will help you visually find and explore each one yourself.

1. Makingmusicfun.net is our first stop today.
   1. This site allows you to select which level of music you want to play starting with beginner all the way through advanced. Some pieces are free and others are very inexpensive if you choose to buy them. They do provide a great starting point for beginners with some familiar tunes that are very easy to play with both hands. You’ll also find more advanced version of some of the same pieces in the higher levels.
   2. The more advanced levels offer a wide variety of more popular tunes which are a lot of fun to learn and play. Many of them are free as well.
2. The next resource is everyones’ favorite research tool, Google.
   1. All you need to do is type “easy piano sheet music pdf” into your google search bar and you will come up with almost unlimited options.
   2. If you want to find just piano sheet music for beginners, then include that in your search title. Do the same for example if you want only free downloadable music, or a particular style of music.
   3. Musecore is one of the sites I really like that offers free piano sheet music. Try searching for the title of a song that you know you’d like to learn and see what they offer.
3. It can be especially helpful to pick up a course method book, such as Alfred’s Adult Piano Course. This series of three books combines technical ideas with easy pieces that incorporate the new technique as you play the piece so the information is reinforced in a fun way. These books are great for adults and really older children that are a little beyond the very beginning stage.

The best way to really utilize all of these resources to your best advantage is to take some time to find several different easy pieces to learn and play. Once you have them mastered then find several more and do the same thing. You don’t want to spend too much time just looking for pieces. After you’ve spent a week on the ones you first selected then it will be a fun reward to go and look at the same site as before or even a different one to find the next week’s treasure trove of what you’re going to practice on and accomplish that next week.

​Combined with steady work on your scales and exercises, this vast amount of pieces that you can access mostly for free with really enhance your hard practicing and make it fun to keep learning and growing.

I will show you these websites on the following video and you will see how to navigate through them to find the pieces that each one offers.

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