Piano songs with letters

37 pieces adults ask for by name, each on its real sheet music with every note's letter printed under it, easiest first. Not letter tabs: the notes stay on the staff, so the letters help you start and the page teaches you to read.

Pieces: 37
Levels: 2 to 7
Key signatures: 5 flats to 4 sharps
Length: 16 to 145 bars

Using the letters, then leaving them

A row of letters tells you which key, and nothing else. The note above each letter also tells you how long to hold it, which hand plays it and whether the tune climbs or falls, all at a glance. That is why each page keeps the music and puts the letters underneath.

Play a piece with its letters once or twice, until you know how it goes. Then drill the notes it uses (each page has a drill of exactly those notes) and print it without the letters. Each row says how many notes the piece asks you to know, from 10 to 45: start with the fewest, and the notes you learn carry over to the next piece.

How letter names work, with sharps, flats and the other systems (do re mi, German H): piano note names.