Free Sheet Music: Lullaby

A free reproducible primer level piano solo arrangement of the iconic "Lullaby," by Johannes Brahms with an elegantly easy teacher duet part by Jennifer Eklund.

Free Sheet Music: Lullaby
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🎧 Listen to “Lullaby” with teacher duet


🧐 About “Lullaby”

  1. Big note, landscape format is great for young and/or students with vision-related disabilities

  2. Two versions included: one with (strategic) note names and one without note names

  3. Single-line melody in five-finger position (G major) with no shared keys

  4. Primer level

  5. Great way to introduce eighth notes and the F-sharp

  6. Simple, harmonically lush, teacher duet included


🍎 Teaching Topics:

Concepts to discuss as you’re introducing the piece to a student:

  1. Have the student identify and explain the time signature

  2. Introduce the concept of the pick-up measure and find the missing beats at the end of the piece

  3. Find and circle the groups of eighth notes. Make sure to point out how the cross-staff eighth notes look different

  4. Clap out the rhythm of the piece (as they’re clapping, the teacher can clap along and say the note names as ‘lyrics’)

  5. Introduce the concept of sharps and help the student locate the F-sharp

  6. Explain the fermata at the end of the piece


💡 Side-Project Ideas:

  1. Write some lyrics

  2. Play the piece in different registers on the keyboard (do students like the piece played higher or lower?)

  3. When playing the duet add a repeat and have the student move their part up another octave on the repeat


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Jennifer Eklund
Written by Jennifer Eklund
Jennifer Eklund holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in music from California State University, Long Beach. She is an avid arranger, composer, and author of the Piano Pronto® method books series as well as a wide variety of supplemental songbooks. She is also a Signature Artist with Musicnotes.com with a large catalog of popular music titles for musicians of all levels.

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Laura Davis's avatar

Your teacher part for the “Lullaby” duet is really gorgeous!

BravoReply10 months ago
Jennifer Eklund's avatar

Glad you liked it - it’s a challenge for me to pare down my usually complicated duet parts!

BravoReply10 months ago

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