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Beethoven Ode To Joy Very Easy Piano Tutorial

In this very easy piano tutorial, you will learn how to play the song, Ode To Joy by Beethoven. As usual, I have kept it very simple for the absolute beginner. I start by playing the entire song first of all, followed by the right hand and left hand parts separately. You will learn how to play the melody with the right hand and single notes with the left hand. The notes are included below.

By the way, this song has the same melody as the gospel song, “Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee” aka “The Hymn Of Joy” by Henry van Dyke. The basic melody of Ode To Joy (by Ludwig van Beethoven) was adapted for this hymn, as well as for the songs “A Song of Joy” by Miguel Ríos, and “Road to Joy” by Bright Eyes.

Video: Beethoven Ode To Joy Easy Piano Tutorial

Here’s the video. Learn the right hand part followed by the left hand part, then combine both parts.

Here are the notes. You should find it very easy. 🙂

Right Hand: Beethoven Ode To Joy Piano Tutorial

Play these notes with the right hand:

E E F G G F E D
C C D E E D D
E E F G G F E D
C C D E D C C
D D E C D E F E C
D E F E D C D G
E E F G G F E D
C C D E D C C

Left Hand Part:

Play these notes with the left hand.

C G C G
C G C G C
G C G C G G# A
C G C G C

Happy learning. With enough practice, you’re bound to master it. All the best.

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Beethoven — Ode to Joy (9th Symphony)
Sheet music for Piano

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This piece is part of our Joyful Music for Piano Compilation

About ‘Ode to Joy (9th Symphony)’

This famous melody comes from the final movement of Beethoven’s «Choral» Symphony No.9 in d minor, Op.125. It is a setting for choir and orchestra of the German poet Schiller’s 1785 poem An die Freude . The Ode to Joy was adopted as Europe’s anthem by the Council of Europe in 1972.

The first lines read:

Oh friends, no more of these sad tones!
Let us rather raise our voices together
In more pleasant and joyful tones.
Joy!

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Ode to Joy Piano
Piano Music for Beginners

Ode to Joy is one of Beethoven’s most recognized and beloved melodies.

Surely your student’s older brother has played it on his trumpet in school band, or perhaps she has heard it sung in church as «Joyful, Joyful, we adore thee. »

Lots of arrangements, solo & duet

See below many arrangements of the famous music, now with:

• A new ADVANCED solo arrangement with a «majestic» sound, in 3 keys
• Two duet versions for teacher plus student, using that majestic arrangement!
• Two beginner arrangements with the Ode to Joy LYRICS.
• Several one-hand beginner versions, with and without lettered notes
• A late elementary arrangement offering a challenging and interesting set of left hand chords for students in their second year!

Please scroll down the page for the download links.

More than one key

This arrangement is available in the keys of C, F, and G.

Here is a close-up look at page one of the F version:

Above is the G arrangement, a look at the most difficult part of the song.

Thanks to Alison in New Zealand!

She requested that I make a duet accompaniment for her and her daughter, using the «majestic» sound that I demonstrated way down the page with big chords in both hands.

Piano duets

Here are the new piano duets, both of which make use of the solo arrangement above:

Please scroll down the page for the download links.

For a beginner & an accomplished pianist

Here is page one of almost the exact same duet, but the primo part uses just one line, one hand, and is therefore able to play up just one octave above the secondo part.

That’s my preference, personally. I always feel like if kids play TOO high, their music starts to sound like mice singing in a closet!

Please scroll down the page for the download links.

The hymn lyrics

Here are the two arrangements which include lyrics. These are just simple arrangements, the same as what I have below, farther down the page.

If you are interested in an accompaniment for church playing, check out «Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee» (Ode to Joy’s English hymn lyrics by Henry van Dyke) at my other website, SingTheBibleStory.com.

There are 2 very pretty and challenging arrangements there, in 3 keys.

Please scroll down the page for the download links.

The lyrics in an easy piano setting

And here again are the lyrics «Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee,» with another easy arrangement for beginners, with a fancier left hand part.

Here are several easy music downloads. These pieces of simple, free kids sheet music for beginning piano players can be dressed up with chords.

Here is the VERY EASIEST Ode to Joy:

Please scroll on down the page for the free downloadable links!

Those notes with letters inside the heads are called «AlphaNotes», and they give new piano students COURAGE.

Is this a crutch? No, a tool. Pay attention to your student, and you will know when it is time to pull off the «training wheels»!

Versions with only a FEW lettered notes

And here is Ode to Joy with just one measure of AlphaNotes, to help orient the student to the very first notes.

After finding the starting notes, this song is almost on autopilot, if your student knows the melody at all. For the most part, reading «Ode to Joy» is like following Wormies or Snakes, two beginning note-reading sheets!

I call these arrangements with just a few lettered notes «helper» versions:

Please scroll down the page for the download links.

It is just possible your student has heard the song sung by a quartet at the end of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

However it may be, if they have heard this most famous of Beethoven’s songs before, they will want to play it themselves!

How they will WANT to play it:

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Observe the dotted rhythm! See the eighth notes in line three!

And eventually, beginners will play it like that. Left hand equals «5, 1, 5, 1, 5, 1, 5, 1, CHORD!»

A simplified melody

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If they automatically play the end of lines one, two, and four with the dotted quarter note rhythm, fine. I don’t try to stop that.

With only minimal fingering, kids read this song just like «Snakes ,» except I warn them that there are some skips hiding in some of the measures. Sometimes we go looking for the skips (or thirds), and circle them with a colored pen.

Preparing for chords

Another change I have made is to turn the melody UP at the end of line 3 instead of down, in order to contain the melody within one hand. That way,we can add chords in a few weeks or months when the melody is very strong.

With chords, Ode to Joy can be dressed up for a duet, or returned to later, when they have gained more skill and their hands are more independent.

Use the sheet below for your adventurous students and treat Ode to Joy like a lead sheet:

Please scroll down the page for the download links.

When should you start adding chords? As I said, not until the melody is well in hand. Here is what a satisfying arrangement might look like:

Please scroll down the page for the download links.

Let beginners experience the majesty

I’ve had kids play the chord accompaniment different ways in this piece, but always starting it as a duet with them on the melody and me on the chords — BIG chords.

It’s good for them to feel the majesty of this piece and to learn to feel comfortable with all the sounds happening while they strive to keep the melody going rhythmically.

If they get too lost and confused initially, then I drop the fancy accompaniment and just play along with them, doubling their part.

Here’s what I mean by «majestic»:

This is the kind of accompaniment I might make — FOR ME, THE TEACHER!

Then we switch places, and I have them try C and G open chords all the way through, striking the chord on beat 1 only.

Changing chords may be a little slow at first, but this student may have been playing the C, F, and G chords of the 12-Bar-Blues for at least a few weeks or months by now.

Switching chords quickly

Then we do something fun. I point out to them that they can change from C to G and back to C again without even looking at their hand, if they «sneak» through the their thumb on g key, using it as a landmark, and switching to their 5 finger.

«Close your eyes and try it,» I tell them, and now it becomes a challenge. They love a challenge!

Then we go through the whole piece, with me on the melody and them on the chords, left hand only, swapping back and forth from C to G to C.

Line 3 is a lot of work, moving twice a measure. Watch out where there are two C chords in a row!

. and line 4 is just like line 2.

Amp up the energy

Finally, we make one last change. after the energy of line 3, it doesn’t seem right to settle back down to just one chord a measure, so we put FOUR chords in each measure of line 4 — what a difference!

I ask them if they can feel the difference, and they can indeed!

It may be some time before they can put this vigorous left hand together with the right hand melody, but that’s okay. in the meantime, you have a great duet, and they are learning chord basics.

The links to the advanced level piano music:

The links to the piano duets:

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