Happy Birthday is a great piece to learn to play on the piano because you can have lots of fun playing it at various different parties and leading people in singing it. I have put together 2 different arrangements. There is an easy piano sheet music version which you should be able to have a go at learning even if you are quite early on in your piano learning journey. I have also arranged a version of Happy Birthday for intermediate piano which is slightly more challenging. Hope you enjoy learning them!
This is a good key to learn to play Happy Birthday in because the melody will be at a pitch range that most people
Can sing. The choice of key is a really important thing to consider when learning to play any piece that people are going to sing along with – you don’t want to spend a long time learning a piece to find that it is far too high for anyone to be able to sing!!
Happy Birthday Flute Sheet Music
The time signature is 3/4 so there are 3 quarter note (crotchet) beats in every bar. However, there is an upbeat as the melody starts on the last beat of the bar.
The right hand can remain in its starting position for all of the 1st line. It is only when you get to the first note of the second line
You can keep your left hand in its starting position for the whole piece. Make sure you watch out for the B flat in Bar 6
Happy Birthday (insane) Sheet Music For Piano (solo)
There is a pause (fermata) symbol on the second beat of bar 6. When performing the song remember to pause at this point to build up for a big finale – this will certainly encourage people to sing loudly!
The intermediate piano version of Happy Birthday is also in F major, but I have added an extra harmony line to the right hand part to add a bit more interest.
The fingering is quite tricky at times and I have added some suggestions. You may find that you want to slightly change the fingering I have written depending on what works best for you.
Happy Birthday Free Sheet Music For Guitar, Piano, & Lead Instruments
Ben Dunnett LRSM is the founder of Music Theory Academy. He is a music teacher, examiner, composer and pianist with over twenty years experience in music education. Read MoreHappy Birthday, with two new late elementary/ early intermediate arrangements perfect for singalongs, as well as for my favorite student exercise - transposing!
I love to start Happy Birthday with a rolled chord as shown above (and below), because it primes everyone to know just when to jump into the song!
The left hand split chords of this arrangement are just the I, IV, and V7 chords. Very basic, and all piano players need to have an understanding of the relationship of these three chords. Here, because we are in the key of C, those chords end up being C, F, and G7.
Easy Happy Birthday For Guitar
I have found it difficult to get my students to feel comfortable with the seventh chords, so this newest arrangement is going to get a big push from me in the coming months!
For chord newbies: regular chords are TRIADS - on the piano it looks like note, skip, and skip. To turn that triad into a seventh chord, just add one more skip. (That's not the end of the story, but it's the BASIC idea.)
Because I intend to make those students for whom this level is appropriate TRANSPOSE this song, from the key of C to G, then to D, then to A, etc. Around the Circle of Fifths.
Happy Birthday Song On Piano
The Happy Birthday piano sheet music arrangement I feature just above uses a simple, bouncy left-hand chord accompaniment in the Oom -pah, pah style.
I call it simple because it is simple to UNDERSTAND. All the chords are in root position, and there is the seventh chord, as plain as plain, with its 4 notes.
My piano teacher (Mrs. Catherine Hahn, a wonderful woman) began her students with this bass note, chord, chord approach, using all root-position chords instead of inversions. This made understanding basic chords and even the 7th chords very easy.
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Below is the melody of Happy Birthday as a lead sheet, for any instrument. Verse two uses words I heard in Sunday School as a child, but did not understand until I was an adult!
Born again (Ye must be born again, John Chapter 3 in the New Testament portion of the Bible) means Salvation; How many (how many birth - days -- how many times have you been BORN) have you?
Below is a version for brave beginners who want to be able to play all of Happy Birthday themselves, even to the octave stretch and the chords.
Happy Birthday Song With Name
It is pretty easy, but kids need a bit of background in chord-playing first, such as Mary Had a Little Lamb (see that page for a little chord lesson) .
With these small chords, I like to tell my students This is a D 'pinch' chord (D & C together). This is a 'little' C chord (C & E together).
The version in G may be easier for your students to play, because with the key of F version, each hand has to deal with a Bb note. In the key of G version, only the right hand has a black note.
Happy Birthday Music Sheet
However, the G arrangement uses several bass clef ledger line notes! You will have to decide. I think the G version is easier.
Here are the Middle-C versions for beginner piano students, the easiest arrangements of all. Use one of these to make a duet with your beginner piano student, or even have two students play together.
That one is EASY to read. The next one is a good challenge for your students still working on note-reading around Middle C:
Happy Birthday Guitar Chords + Easy Tips To Play The Song
If you want to turn it into a 2-student duet (the melody or Primo part will have to be played UP an octave), here are the Happy Birthday chords spelled out in this Secondo part.
Originally the words weren't Happy Birthday at all, but Good morning to you, good morning to you. Good morning, dear children, good morning to you!
Tells the riveting story of the time when Jews in ancient Persia faced a foe named Haman, and how a brave young queen risked her life to save her people.
Happy Birthday Song
This book is available as a digital download from this site. Visit this page to see some free examples from the book.
And when they start reading white-key notes on the staff, this is a fun easy resource to say each week, Choose a new black-key song at home this week and figure it out to show me next lesson! They will be spending more time at the piano.
The Adventures of Tonsta highlight the travels of a very young boy with a good heart, who goes about helping folk in trouble.
Play Happy Birthday To You (personalized Traditional Happy Birthday Songs) By The Celebrations On Amazon Music
With a red cap on his head and a sack of tools slung over his shoulder, Tonsta seems to meet people in distress wherever he goes.
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One girl kept wanting me to play Cats at Night for her, and she was so excited to start learning it :)
Happy Birthday Piano Chords
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Happy Birthday: Beginner Bass Clef Sheet Music With Chords And Lyrics
Like some of you, I've been playing the piano since early childhood, and have added a few other instruments along the way, plus an interest in arranging and composing music.Here are two Happy Birthday easy piano music arrangements for young pianists. The first one is for children who have only just started to play. It has an easy single melody line centered on middle C so it’s really quick to master. The second option is an easy piano music arrangement for both hands together, which is more suitable for someone who’s been playing a little longer.
If you’re new to teaching piano to kids, do take a look at my First Piano Lessons eBook . It’s filled with teaching tips, tricks and games for teaching young children the piano in an engaging way.
When kids first start learning any instrument, the challenge is to get them hooked. And while of course it’s very important to make sure that they learn the correct theory and technique, it’s also really important to make sure that they are having fun and enjoying the experience of playing pieces that they want to play both for themselves and for others.
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