Easy Songs to Play on Piano for Beginners

Firstly, for a beginner, I would recommend that you play scales and chords, majors and minors thoroughly for about 15 minutes, if possible, half an hour. This is essential that your ears and fingers register each and every note in a specified scale. Registry of notes will help you to up your performance in playing songs on the piano. Apart from that, since your songs are located in a single scale and tend to have a specified chord combination which, I hope, you have practiced well, would also help you to play more and more comfortably. On the contrary, you will find it really difficult to play some songs, due odd chord combinations and such other problems. In such a case, it is recommended that you take the help of some sheet music or websites to improve your skills. A simple sketch of the chords progression will do just fine, figuring out the remainder of the notes on your own would prove to be of great help in your ear development. Well, that's that, lets proceed to the list of some really easy songs that can be played on the piano.

List of Easy Songs to Play on Piano for Beginners

This list has been divided into several categories. Almost all these songs are very simple to play and let me tell you one simple key to find out all the notes, find out the chord and first note, the remaining song will flow out beautifully. Furthermore some of the songs mentioned here have lovely bass lines, hence if you figure out your left and notes and then the right hand ones, the coordination in the two would sound much better. So here goes...

Nursery Rhymes
First off, it is not a whim or a childish suggestion, as nursery rhymes would help you to sharpen your basic chord and scale playing, owing to the fact that a maximum number of rhymes are played in basic scales such as C major, D major and G major. On the whole, you will not only enjoy yourself but you will also get to practice all the frequently and commonly used scales. The second advantage is that the simple structure of the song gives you a lot of freedom to improvise within the rhyme, change the scale, go one step (tone or semi-tone) up or come down one scale, play the 5th or 3rd harmonic of the original song. Thing to do is to basically, fly on the key board and rediscover all the scales if you are playing after some time. Further more, you can also start with changing the bass line, creating a totally harmonic parallel tune, or other such experiments. Nursery rhymes are an excellent way of sharpening your listening, playing, composing and also help you to enjoy the piano thoroughly. Here are some suggestions:

• Ding Dong Bell
• Hey Diddle Diddle
• Jack and Jill
• Yankee Doodle
• Pretty Little Dutch Girl
• Rag time Ragles
• Tweedledum and Tweedledee
• Mary Had a Little Lamb
• Rain Rain Go Away

Well, that's pretty much, but you can take up any nursery rhyme and go wild with it.

Contemporary Christian Music
Of recent, Gospel rock and Christian rock songs are being greatly admired. These songs have a very pleasant toned vocals and lyrics, that go along with a very pleasing and reasonably well-groomed chord sequence. These songs are not very difficult, but some time and patience is required to get a hang of the song. But once you get it at your fingertips, there is no stopping to your playing as you will be able to find your away about quite quickly. Michel W. Smith and Chris Tomlin are two artists who have some really great songs with lovely chord progressions and notes. Apart from that you may also try out some songs by MercyMe and Ruben Morgan, Jason Morant or Rebecca St. James. Again let me repeat that this task is a bit patience teasing and hence you will need to take a bit of a time for every song. I would recommend you to try the bass part first and then the right hand side. In addition, while you do the bass part try to sing along. The right hand part is usually to be played in multiple octaves. Here are some really easy piano songs:

• I Can Only Imagine - MercyMe
• Surrender - Marc James
• I Thank You - Rebecca St. James
• Majesty - Delirious
• Awesome God - Michel W. Smith
• The Wonderful Cross - Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman
• Rain Down - Dave Crowder Band

Please note that these songs are quite tough and you will need to match the notes from you left and right hand very properly and patiently.

Contemporary Rock Songs
There are some contemporary rock songs which you may like to play on the piano. See if you can find the following list agreeable:

• One - Metallica
• Fade to Black - Metallica
• Clocks - Cold Play
• November Rain - Guns and Roses
• Sara - Fleetwood Mac
• Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison
• Days Like these - Van Morrison
• Let it Be - Beetles
• Piano Man - Billy Joel
• Your Song - Elton Jon
• Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
• Goodbye - Hootie and Blowfish

In addition to these songs old Jazz songs, film scores such as the one of Sound of Music and Titanic can also be played quite easily on the piano. Remember when you play the piano you need to identity three important things about every line of the song that you play, the octaves, timing and notes. The best way to play songs is to feel the song's music.