An easy halloween piano song that’s perfect for beginner piano pupils, and also great for singing at Halloween too! It’s all about the spooky sounds at this time of year!
Spooky Sounds Easy Halloween Song
Spoo-ky sounds at night! ‘Bom, bom, bom, bom!’
Give us such a fright! ‘oo-oo, oo-oo!’
Hoo-ting owls are ech-o-ing all around the park,
Witches, bats and big black cats are,
Coming to do mischief in the dark!
*
Spoo-ky sounds at night! ‘Bom, bom, bom, bom!’
Give us such a fright! ‘oo-oo, oo-oo!’
Wi-tches stand a-round their cauldrons making magic spells,
Fizz, bang, pop! Like rotten eggs it,
Ma-kes such an aw-ful po-ngy smell!
This song is great on the run up to halloween as it helps to build the excitement and anticipation for all things spooky! It’s so catchy and cute that they’ll be playing it all the time. With the added bonus of strengthening their fingers
If you have a young pianist in the family then this simple sheet music will be perfect for them. The left hand is very simple and the easy fingering and teaching notes are included.
But if they’re not quite ready for both hands together, then just play the right hand tune on it’s own so they don’t miss out on the spooky fun!
How To Play
- Print the free sheet music.
- Build up the spookiness of this special piece of music for halloween, so they’ll be excited to get going!
- Don’t be in a hurry to rush through the whole piece. It’s always best to practice in bite size chunks of 4 bars at a time, and only move on when they can play it easily.
- First identify the key signature – D minor – If it’s is new to them, then this can be an excellent introduction to minor scales.
- Spend some time explaining and understanding the D minor scale.
- Start with Right Hand (R.H) only.
- In this piece the fingering is set with R.H 1 (thumb) starting on D. Then all the rest of the fingering should be easy and comfortable to find.
- Although very small hands might struggle with stretching across the octave – so show them how to hop up the notes. This will also help with the staccato attack.
- Start by singing the first phrase and clapping the rhythm together.
- Identify the time signature and make sure they know how many beats are in each bar.
- Place the the R.H 1 on middle D (next to middle C) and encourage the child to work out the notes of the first phrase.
- Using the rhymes for memorising the notes on the stave is very helpful!
- To help them get started, you can gently touch each finger that they’ll need to use for each phrase before they play it – you’ll only need to do this the first time.
- Draw attention to the staccato notes in the first 8 bars and only practice the first 4 bars for the first lesson.
- The next lesson add the middle 4 bars – working slowly and methodically like before.
- This should be played legato – smoothly to contrast the staccato notes earlier.
- Next time, add the last 4 bars. The first two bars of which are just like the original first 2 bars at the top – but in reverse.
- The last two bars are a scale of D minor – so lots to perfect there. Practice very slowly, with special emphasis on passing the thumb under smoothly as they climb the scale.
- Of course the D flat should really be a C# at the end!! (the same note of course) Sorry to be confusing, but my musescore programme was being very stubborn!! 😳
- Only attempt the left hand once the R.H is mastered.
- If they aren’t ready for this yet, then the teacher can play in the L.H as a duet.
- Approach the L.H notes in the same way, with lots of emphasis on the correct fingering.
- Only attempt to play both hands together once they can play each hand separately with ease.
I am a 78 yr old retired pharmacist who has been asked to teach music for the children’s choir at a local grade school – pre-K through 8. These children have never been taught the basics, they learn their songs by listening to CDs. I have started by teaching them the time signatures and note values. I am a volunteer at the school and have been printing many of your free worksheets, etc. Which of the lesson plans would be best for me to invest in to further help these students? I can only afford about $20 every month. I would like to make a book for each grade level so as not to have the older students think I am treating them as babies.
Hi Anne, I’m so glad to hear that you’ve been finding our free printable worksheets useful, and it sounds as though you’re doing a great job with your choir. Let’s Play Music is primarily aimed at pre-K up to 7 year olds. Older children do sometimes enjoy the more complex rhythm activities and circle games and often older piano beginners do find the simple approach with the first piano lessons helpful. But if you’re wanting to engage the young teenagers I’d suggest you take a look on youtube for some inspiration – I’m sure there’s plenty of ‘cool stuff’ there!
Thank you, Sara, for the information. I will check you tube for the older students. They need to start at the beginning also, as they have not had music classes at school until this year.
Which of your e-books would you suggest to start with for the younger students. I have been trying to show them the difference between rhythm, tempo and the beat.
Thanks for your purchases Ann, you’ll find plenty of activities that focus on the basics of rhythm, tempo and beat in my lesson plans and The First Piano lessons is very good for teaching the names of the notes and basic notation. My How To read Music Made Easy ebook is also good for explaining basic theory too. I hope your students have fun with all the activities, and if you have any other questions, I’m always happy to help!😊