Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star sheet music (easy)

How to play Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (Easy)

The classic first song, and a perfect first quest: one hand position, slow notes, and only white keys.

Where your hands go

Right hand: thumb on middle C (C4), one finger per white key up to G4. That is your home. The only note outside it is A4 in bars 2 and 10: stretch your little finger up one key, then come home.

Left hand: it plays C3, F3 and G2, slow notes of two or four beats. Put your little finger on G2 and your thumb on F3, and C3 falls under a middle finger.

The tricky bars

Bar 2

The stretch to A4, then back to G4 on a half note.

Bar 4

The left hand moves down to G2 for two beats, then back to C3.

Bars 5–8

The middle verse: bars 7 and 8 are an exact repeat of bars 5 and 6. Spot it and you only have two new bars to learn.

Your practice plan

1. Right hand alone, bars 1 to 4, saying the note names out loud.
2. Right hand alone, bars 5 and 6, which make up the whole middle verse.
3. Left hand alone, counting four beats in every bar.
4. Hands together, slowly, one line at a time.
5. Play it all with Listen on. Every note should turn green.

Watch out for

• Holding the repeated notes as one long note. Each pair, like C4, C4, is two separate presses.
• Cutting the half notes at the ends of bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 short. Give them two full beats.
• Forgetting to move the left hand down to G2 in bars 4, 6, 8 and 12.

Power-up: press Loop, tap the first and last of the tricky bars, and they repeat until they feel easy. Hands in Options lets you practise one hand at a time. New to the notation? Start with how to read keyboard staff, then how to practise piano.