Easy Violin Songs

Play along to the 10 easiest violin songs here on this youtube video:

I spent the past 20 years teaching the violin and most of that was using a Suzuki Violin curriculum which begins with Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star & rhythmic variations. In my opinion, this is is a difficult piece to begin with since it has 4 sections in A-B-B-A form and uses 6 pitches. I always had to break it down into smaller songs like the Flower Song and Monkey Song in order to teach it to young beginners. 

This got me thinking about how I might teach beginners if I were to use a different curriculum so I created the list below and a violin sheet music collection of what I think are the 10 easiest violin songs.

3 Note Songs:

• Hot Cross Buns (Folk)
• Mary Had a Little Lamb (Folk)

4 Note Song:

• Boil Them Cabbage Down (Folk)

5 Note Songs:

• Ode to Joy/Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee (L. van Beethoven)
• Jingle Bells (J. Pierpont)
• When the Saints Go Marching In (Folk)
• Lightly Row (Folk)

6 Note Songs:

• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (Folk)
• Shortnin' Bread (J. Riley)
• Spring from the "Four Seasons" (A. Vivaldi, arranged for beginning level violin)

Lastly, for clarification, there is a slight error in calling this a list of songs because the definition of a "song" is a piece of music meant to be sung with the human voice versus a "piece" which is composed for an instrument. As you can see from this list above, Spring from the Four Seasons is technically a "piece" and not a "song". 

What songs/pieces would you include in this list? Please let us know in the comments below. Thanks!

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