Great Piano Christmas Hits: 19 Carols in Finger Numbers
Nineteen Christmas carols, written so that you can play them without reading a note.
Every carol opens with a drawing of the keyboard and a hand resting on it, a number on each finger. You put your hand where the drawing shows. From there the carol is written as numbers: one number for each finger, one box for each beat, a dash where a note is held on. When the hand has to move somewhere else, the book draws it again in its new place.
What you get, four PDF books to print at home
Level 1. One hand at a time, five fingers, one position. All nineteen carols.
Level 2. The same carols with the left hand joining underneath.
Level 3. The fuller arrangements, with the hand moving to new positions.
The Original Sheets. The printed sheet music for all nineteen, for when you want it.
The carols: Angels We Have Heard on High, Away in a Manger, Christ was Born on Christmas Day, Deck the Halls, Ding Dong! Merrily on High, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Jingle Bells, Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, Joy to the World, O Christmas Tree, O Come All Ye Faithful, O Come O Come Emmanuel, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Silent Night, The First Noel, We Three Kings, We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
You can hear every one of them first, free, at piano-play-it.com. The keyboard on screen lights up as the carol plays, with the finger number on the key and a bracket showing where the hand sits.
Taught by David Yzhaki, arrangements by Ido Ronen. piano-play-it.com, teaching piano online since 2008.The play along comes with it. A second download holds a play along you keep on your own computer, with all nineteen carols at both levels. Open it in any browser, with or without internet. Press play and the key that is sounding lights up with the finger number on it, while a bracket above the keyboard shows where your hand should sit and slides when the carol asks it to move. Slow the tempo down, loop one line until it is yours, and play along.