8 Beginner Piano Sheet Music with Accompaniments

Just getting started on the piano and looking for easy, accessible pieces to help you build a strong foundation and improve your playing? You’re in the right place! We’ve put together a selection of beginner-friendly pieces that not only reinforce the skills you’re beginning to learn but also introduce new fundamentals to elevate your playing to the next level. From mastering chords to staying in rhythm with steady notes, these easy piano songs are perfect for pianists who are still at the start of their musical journey!

While beginner classics like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star are a great starting point, the classical repertoire is full of beginner-friendly gems by composers like Bach, Satie, and more. You'll be able to learn these piano songs while expanding your repertoire with our easy piano sheet music!

With the Metronaut App, each digital piano sheet music also comes with simplified arrangements. This allows you to begin learning with an easier version, get comfortable with the notes and rhythms, and gradually work your way up to the original composition. If there’s a piece you love but it feels out of reach at the moment, no worries! You can still enjoy playing it with a simplified arrangement in the Metronaut App. You don’t have to be a pro to play the piano music you love!

Whether you’re just learning your first notes or already moving on to more complex rhythms, Metronaut adapts to you! And, with our dynamic accompaniments that adapt to your tempo in real time, you'll get the experience of playing alongside a real orchestra or pianist—even if you’re practicing solo from your room! Download the Metronaut App and begin exploring these easy pieces today, as well as our full sheet music collection of beginner-friendly piano songs.

1. "Minuet in G Major BWV Anh.114" Sheet Music by Johann Sebastian Bach

Though Bach's repertoire has plenty of difficult pieces, with quick tempos and complicated counterpoint, he also composed pieces that are accessible to beginners, and are great to work on simple rhythms. The Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 114 is one of the most popular entry-level pieces for piano students. It is from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, a collection Bach compiled for his wife that includes various types of compositions, such as chorales, sonatas, minuets and arias. This minuet is ideal for beginners, with its simple rhythms, graceful melody, and clear phrasing. It’s a perfect introduction to Baroque style and a staple for beginners!

2. "Minuet in G Minor BWV Anh.115" Sheet Music by Johann Sebastian Bach

Perhaps you find the G Major key to be too joyful and want something more dark? The Minuet in G Minor, BWV Anh. 115 is the perfect alternative! As its title indicates, it pairs with the minuet in G Major due to its similar structure and rhythms, though the melody is now written in G minor, creating a much more mysterious and dark mood. It's perfect to train your ear to identify the difference between Major and minor keys, while still offering the same structure that makes it achievable for beginner players through its simple rhythms, slow tempo, and easy notes. Read our article to discover more Bach sheet music!

3. "Experience" Sheet Music by Ludovico Einaudi

If you're looking for a piece by a contemporary composer, a great place to start is with Ludovico Einaudi's easiest song, Experience! Playing this piece will definitely help you gain in experience on the piano, helping you learn to play different rhythms in the left and right hand rather than the simpler block chords in the left hand. First, have a look at our simplified sheet music arrangement and work your way up to the original intermediate level, while experiencing the full magic of this piece by playing with our orchestral accompaniment!

4. "Gymnopédies – 1. Lent et douloureux" Sheet Music by Erik Satie

One of the most iconic and expressive pieces in the solo piano repertoire, Erik Satie's first Gymnopédie, composed in 1888, is perfect for beginner pianists who want to work on expression of emotion in their playing. As the title indicates, the piece is slow and sorrowful, with a slow tempo, easy rhythms and repetitive melody. Thanks to this straightforward structure, you'll be able to take the time to work on phrasing, dynamics and expression to truly bring out the melancholic atmosphere of this piece. Read our article on Satie's Gymnopédies to find out more about the work's history, the composer himself, and find digital piano sheet music for the other two compositions in this work!

5. "Practical Exercises for Beginners Op.599" Sheet Music by Carl Czerny

What better way to improve on the piano than through easy targeted exercises for beginners, composed by the student of Ludwig van Beethoven and teacher of Franz Liszt? With his impressive background, Carl Czerny was an austrian pianist who produced a large amount of piano studies, widely used today by piano teachers with their students. This collection of pieces in particular is sure to help beginners develop new and specific technical skills such as finger independence, hand coordination, and basic rhythms. The repetitive structure of each piece really helps work and perfect these skills, helping you build strong foundations that you'll be able to apply to other pieces in the advanced repertoire!

6. "Children's Album Op.39 – 7. The Sick Doll" Sheet Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky's Children's Album is comprised of short, little pieces for piano, designed to be accessible to children and to beginner pianists. The Sick Doll creates a melancholic atmosphere, and has an interesting structure where the notes alternate between both hands. Learning to seamlessly connect the notes between the two is sure to improve your hand coordination! And similarly to Satie's Gymnopédies, the slower tempo and easier rhythms make this a great piece to focus on phrasing and expression to bring out the gentle and fragile mood and storytelling of the piece. To tell the full unfortunate story, follow up this piece by learning the next composition in this work, The Doll's Funeral.

7. "Album for the Young Op.68 – 10. The Happy Farmer" Sheet Music by Robert Schumann

Similarly to Tchaikovsky's Children's Album, Schumann composed this work in 1848 for his three daughters, as accessible pieces for beginners on the piano. The Happy Farmer has a lively tempo, with the melody in the left hand! Once again, this is great for working on hand coordination by getting used to bringing out the melody not just in the right (usually dominant) hand. To learn this playful piece, you can begin with our simplified sheet music arrangement to practice getting the notes right, before bringing it all together in the original arrangement.

8. "The Blue Danube" Sheet Music by Johann Strauss II

One of the most famous and beloved waltzes in the classical repertoire, everyone can recognize the classic tune of The Blue Danube right away! Composed in 1866 by Johann Strauss II, this iconic piece in triple meter has a easy rhythm of quarter notes, and will teach you to move around the keyboard quickly to move between notes, while working on keeping the phrasing consistent with the written in legato markings. To get the full experience, play the piano with our orchestral accompaniments and take a trip back to 19th century Vienna!

Download the Metronaut App and begin learning these classic pieces today, or have a look at our full sheet music collection of easy piano sheet music