9 Free Easy Christmas Songs
Here are 9 free easy Christmas songs for beginning violinists. All of these songs are in first position. They begin with the easiest finger pattern. You will find one note change in Deck the Halls. This change avoids a using a high 3rd finger on the D string. Then the songs progress to using low 2nd fingers. The final song Carol of the Bells include using a low first finger on the E string and a high 3rd finger on the D string.
G Major and D Major Christmas Songs
In mid-Suzuki book 1 I usually teach Jingle Bells, Deck the Halls, Angels We Have Heard on High, and Joy to the World. After learning low 2’s in Etude, students can learn O Come All Ye Faithful, O Tannenbaum, The First Noel, and Away in a Manger. I also like to teach Frosty the Snowman, but the song is still under copyright and cannot be distributed for free.
A Minor Christmas Song
One students have reached Suzuki Book 2 and are playing low 1’s, we begin Carol of the Bells. Most of my students are dying to play this piece. You will have to slow them down on the beginning measures. There is something super fun about playing that motif as loudly and as fast as you can. Then when you get to the scale, then you throw on the brakes. So keeping a steady tempo with exaggerated dynamics are great teaching points. These reinforce many of the techniques they are learning in Book 2.
