Choose by the work, not the badge
Two songs can carry the same beginner label and ask for different skills. One stays under five fingers but has an awkward pickup. Another uses six notes but moves in an easy, familiar pattern. The useful question is not simply “Is this easy?” It is “What will my hands have to do?”
Current piano song lessons
Ode to Joy
A fixed C-position version with an even quarter-note pulse.
Open lesson →Starter / 6 notesTwinkle, Twinkle
Repeated notes, one small reach to A and clear four-bar phrases.
Open lesson →Starter / repeated notesJingle Bells
The keys are simple; the repeated E notes need an honest count.
Open lesson →Starter / 6/8Silent Night
A small opening range with two gentle pulses moving under the long notes.
Open lesson →Beginner / pickupAmazing Grace
A slow melody that teaches the difference between slow and vague.
Open lesson →Beginner / opening onlyFür Elise
Learn the E–D-sharp turn without treating the whole work as easy.
Open lesson →Intermediate / tripletsMoonlight Sonata
A reading and texture guide for the original first movement.
Open guide →Intermediate / syncopationThe Entertainer
A realistic route into Joplin's ragtime rhythm, with the hands prepared separately.
Open lesson →Starter / 3 notesMary Had a Little Lamb
Three neighbouring notes make repeated-note rhythm easy to hear.
Open lesson →Starter / pickupHappy Birthday
A compact melody that begins before the first full measure.
Open lesson →Starter / two handsChopsticks
Turn the familiar paired-key gesture into a steady three-beat task.
Open lesson →Beginner / patternCarol of the Bells
Keep a four-note cell even before adding accents or harmony.
Open lesson →Intermediate / voicingClair de lune
Read the original score’s demands and prepare its quiet balance.
Open guide →What our levels mean
One hand at a time, a compact range and a rhythm that can be counted before it is played.
A pickup, an accidental, a small hand move or a basic left-hand pattern adds one new job.
Voicing, continuous patterns or coordination make relaxed control more important than finding the notes.
A level describes the arrangement taught on the page. It does not automatically describe the complete original work.