Are you bored with your current Christmas and holiday music for elementary piano students? Well, be bored no more!! We’ve got all kinds of Christmas and holiday music for elementary piano students from extremely melancholy to extremely playful. But it ALL makes kids, teens and adults sound great. It’s truly Music Kids Love®!
New in 2016 – O Come O Come Emmanuel
We’ve got the wild, crazy and energetic Deck the Hall and Jingle Bells listed below from previous years, but this year, I wanted to create something mature and sophisticated.
Adults, teens, and even more reflective children don’t want their music to make them sound like a baby or even a child. Yet, the slower holiday tunes make it difficult to find arrangements that are easy but sophisticated sounding. So, this year’s new piece “O Come O Come Emmanuel” does just that. It makes any elementary student sound artistic, compelling, sophisticated, mature, and can leave their audience breathless.
Easy Carol of the Bells
This easy Carol of the Bells arrangement will give your beginning students a full sounding piece without scaring them away from the score. Every student wants to play Carol of the Bells and this arrangement will enable elementary students to play beautifully and maturely without overwhelming them. Carol of the Bells is one of the most popular pieces of Christmas music for elementary piano students!
Impressive Deck the Hall
This super energetic, high spirited arrangement of Deck the Hall will wow any student and their audience! Complete with not one, but two glissandos (which can easily be done with an index card), this piece is one of the most popular pieces of Christmas music for elementary piano students on the ComposeCreate site.
It’s carefully crafted to ensure that students sound like they are playing fast and impressively, but still capable of playing all the notes of Deck the Hall without slurring them together in a messy way. (You know what I mean: Ask any elementary piano student to play those eighth notes in the normal Deck the Hall and it sounds super messy!)
Show-stopping Jingle Bells
Oh my goodness. Your students will be begging to play this arrangement of Jingle Bells ! It’s super easy but looks and sounds amazingly difficult. Students are all over the keyboard, they get to use the pedal, there are multiple glissandos, and the first page can easily be taught by rote! They will go head over heals for this version of Jingle Bells!
Mysterious God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
This haunting and beautiful arrangement of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is perfect for later beginners, teens and adults. It’s a great way to teach rubato to all ages of students. This piece lends itself easily to an effective emotional performance that can capture the hearts of everyone listening. This easy “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” fits small hands perfectly.
Cup Tapping We Three Kings
You know how much your students love cup tapping! Why not bring it to the holiday recital? We know that making music together is a key in getting everyone to enjoy themselves. And if the response of other teachers are any indicator, you’ll be getting some amazing compliments at this years’ recital when you choose to involve the audience!
This piece comes with free mp3 tracks so that students can practice this piece with audience clapping even at home! The tracks come at 3 different tempos so that they can practice with clapping even when they are just learning the piece.
A Thanksgiving Prayer
Don’t let the beautiful Thanksgiving holiday be forgotten in the hustle and bustle of Christmas excitement. “A Thanksgiving Prayer” gives a familiar poem a gentle, yet contemporary sound, easy for a mid-elementary student to play. Students will love to learn “A Thanksgiving Prayer,” share it with their families, or even sing it at the dinner and Thanksgiving table!
This piece comes with both easy guitar chord tabs as well as advancing guitar chord tabs so other family members or friends can join you!