These easy piano songs are all in the public domain, and each one has its own page with free sheet music: the melody on a treble staff with the letter name printed under every note. The same notes are listed as plain letter notes and as the computer keys that play them, and a keyboard on the page can play the song for you or wait while you find each key. Search above by song title or composer, choose a level or type, or select White keys only to find an arrangement without black keys. The songs are grouped by kind and sorted from very easy to intermediate within each group.
What makes a song easy
The level on each song comes from a few simple things:
- How many different notes it uses. Hot Cross Buns needs three keys and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star six. Every extra key is one more thing to find.
- Whether it fits one hand position. In the C position your right thumb sits on middle C and each finger covers one white key up to G. Jingle Bells fits it completely, while Happy Birthday asks your hand to move more than once.
- Steps or leaps. A melody that moves to the next key is easier than one that jumps, because the next finger is already in place.
- Rhythm. Notes of one or two beats are the easiest to count; dotted notes, quick pairs and compound meters such as 6/8 take more attention.
- White keys or black keys. Most very easy and easy songs here use only white keys. Songs in other keys add sharps or flats, played on the black keys.
- Knowing the tune. A song you can already hum is easier to learn, because you can hear when a note is wrong.
A first set of printable scores
If you want piano sheet music for beginners, choose one score that adds just a little to the last one. Each link below opens the playable song and its printable staff with letters under the notes:
- Hot Cross Buns uses C, D and E. Learn where those three keys sit before worrying about a wider hand position.
- Mary Had a Little Lamb adds G and a few longer notes. The first song lesson spells out its fingers and counting.
- Jingle Bells keeps the familiar chorus in C position. Repeated notes make it good practice for an even beat.
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star reaches A above the five-finger position, so your hand has to move a little.
- Ode to Joy uses the five keys of C position for most of the melody and one low G outside it. It is a next step in reading rhythm and planning a hand change.
Print one at a time. The letters are there to check a note, while the staff shows which direction the melody moves and how long each note lasts. Most scores contain the melody. Twinkle Twinkle, Ode to Joy and Silent Night also include a simple left-hand part; choose the Both hands filter to find them.
Start playing with both hands
The two-hand scores put the melody on the treble staff and our beginner bass-note accompaniment on the bass staff. Notes aligned vertically begin together. A long bass note keeps sounding while several shorter melody notes pass above it.
Choose Right hand, Left hand or Both hands, then press Listen or Practice. Learn each part separately before combining them. Practice waits for the keys at each new note or chord; it does not check rhythm or how long you hold them. Use Listen at 50% to hear the rhythm, then try it on your own. The Print button prints both staves; each page also offers a melody-only sheet.
Sheet music, letter notes and computer keys
Each song page opens on the sheet music, with key and time signatures, bar lines and the letter name under every note. Melody-only scores use a treble staff; the two-hand scores add a bass staff below it. Letter notes lists the pitches with small octave numbers, where middle C is C4. Computer keys shows which key of your computer keyboard plays each note, updating for the hand you choose on a two-hand page. The site remembers the view you chose.
The arrangements are our own and simple on purpose. Most show the right-hand melody, often moved to an easier key than the original. Twinkle Twinkle, Ode to Joy and Silent Night add a beginner bass-note accompaniment. Each page says which part of a longer piece it covers; these are teaching arrangements, not complete original classical scores.
How Listen and Practice work
Listen plays the song, lights up each key as it sounds and highlights each note in the sheet music as it goes. Choose 50%, 75% or 100% under Listen speed; you can change the pace while it plays without changing the pitches. Turn on Repeat to hear it again automatically. Use it first, to hear how the tune goes and to see where your hand will travel.
Practice lights up the next key and waits until you press it before moving on. Nothing happens until you play, so you can stop, look for a key and carry on at your own pace. After a few rounds, play from the sheet music alone, and go back to Listen whenever a passage is unclear.
Open Practice a section to choose just the bars you want to work on. Listen and Practice follow that range, and Repeat loops those bars. Choose Whole song when you are ready to put the pieces together. A pickup is listed separately before bar 1; the Print button always prints the full score.
Your last completed practice step is saved in this browser. Come back to the song and press Resume practice to restore its hand, section and speed, or find it under Your recent practice above. Nothing starts automatically. Use Clear history to remove saved practice. These saved steps are a bookmark, not a grade for rhythm or technique, and do not sync to another device.
Print the sheet music, or play it as a game
Every song has a Print sheet music button that prints just the score, and a printable image of the whole arrangement further down its page. For a change of pace, the falling notes game turns any of these melodies into a game: notes drop toward the keys and you press each one as it arrives, with a Wait for me mode for learning. The game uses the melody alone, including for songs that offer a two-hand score.
Where to start
If you are new to the piano, begin with how the piano keys are laid out so you can find middle C, then learn hand position and finger numbers. The first song lesson takes you through Mary Had a Little Lamb and Ode to Joy step by step in the C position. Adults can follow the adult beginner path, and a parent can use the kids' first piano activities. When a song goes well, play it on the full online piano, record it and copy a link that plays your recording for anyone who opens it.