Would you like to learn how to play the notes of the famous nursery rhyme Mary Had A Little Lamb on the piano? This is the place!
Dating back to the 19th century, Mary Had A Little Lamb is much more than just a nursery rhyme. As a little girl, Mary Tyler, the author, had a pet lamb, which she brought to school one day at her brother’s suggestion. His passage caused astonishment…
Learning this nursery rhyme on the piano is seductively simple. The note sequences are easy to follow, inviting even beginners to encounter them with ease. The melody, a gentle musical companion, provides a lively introduction to piano playing.
With the help of this article, we’re going to learn Mary Had A Little Lamb easily on the piano. First we’ll look at the notes to be played with the right hand, then with the left. Don’t panic, you’ll find all the explanations you need in our video tutorials!
By the end of this superb adventure, little music lovers, spirited apprentice pianists and budding virtuosos will be ready to enchant the world with one of the coolest melodies on the piano!
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Before playing the notes of this nursery rhyme, let’s first go over a few basics and find out where we are on a piano keyboard. The image below shows the location of each note on a keyboard:
The name of the notes on a piano keyboard.
Look closely at the drawing of the piano. It can be divided into pieces, and each piece has 7 white keys. Each white key has its own name: C, D, E, F, G, A, B. And when you reach the 8th note, everything starts again exactly the same. This is called an “octave”.
To find a note more easily, you can use the black keys. They’re not all the same. They’re arranged in groups of two and three. These groups help us find our way around the piano.
For example, if you’re looking for the note C, first look for a group of two black keys. Then find the white key just to the left of this group: that’s C.
To help you find your way around the piano and reinforce your ability to navigate the keyboard, you can also use your right hand to associate each finger with a key, starting with the thumb on C. For the left hand, apply the same principle, associating your little finger with the C a little to the left and working your way down the keys to the thumb.
Before you start learning Mary Had A Little Lamb, practice finding the notes on the piano keyboard. This will make it easier for you to play the notes of this nursery rhyme when we come to them.
Go through the keyboard with gusto, each note a joyful invitation to the melody that awaits you!
By now, you’re able to find your way around the piano, so let’s take a look at the notes of the nursery rhyme Mary Had A Little Lamb, which you’ll play with your right hand. These notes commonly reflect the song’s catchy melody, which we all know, even from childhood memories.
Let’s position ourselves on the note E, which will be the first note you play with the right hand in Mary Had A Little Lamb.
The note E is the first note to be played with your right hand for the nursery rhyme Mary Had A Little Lamb on piano.
To your keyboards! Did you find the first E in the song? Yes! Top!
Then we move on to all the other notes, always with the right hand.
Press all the keys on your keyboard in succession:
E – D – C – D – E – E – E – D – D – D – E – G – G – E – D – C – D – E – E – E – E – D – D – E – D – C – E – D – C – D – E – E – E – D – D – D – E – G – G – E – D – C – D – E – E – E – E – D – D – E – D – C
If you press all these notes one after the other, you’ll easily recognize the melody of the nursery rhyme Mary Had A Little Lamb on the piano.
Mary Had A Little Lamb on the piano: the notes of the right hand.
We’ve extracted the tutorial video from our piano learning app. It details the rhythms of the notes seen above and the overall tempo of the nursery rhyme Mary Had A Little Lamb on the piano.
Don’t hesitate to watch it to perfect your right-hand technique.
To apply the video method easily, hold down the key as long as the note is played. As a first step, don’t hesitate to play with the video’s playback speed to facilitate your learning: open the video on YouTube, click on Settings at the bottom of the video and select the playback speed.
Challenge accomplished, bravo! You can now play the notes of Mary Had A Little Lamb on the piano with your right hand. This is the beginning of a great learning adventure.
Don’t wait, let’s move on to the left hand!
Play the notes ofMary Had A Little Lamb with the right hand on an interactive app
La Touche Musicale app waits for you to play the right note with your right hand on your piano before moving on to the next one.
Learning to play notes on the piano with the left hand requires the same method as above. You locate the first note with your left hand, and then we’ll work on the sequence of notes that follows.
To play Mary Had A Little Lamb, start by placing the finger of your left hand on the note C .
The note C is the first note to be played with your left hand for the nursery rhyme Mary Had A Little Lamb on piano.
Mary Had A Little Lamb on the piano: the notes of the left hand.
There’s nothing better than a tutorial video for the notes to be played with the left hand. This video takes all the notes from the accompaniment to Mary Had A Little Lamb that we mentioned earlier, and lets you follow them in a more visual way.
Don’t forget to hold down the key for as long as the note appears on the keyboard in the video.
It’s not always easy to get it right first time, but that’s no problem. You can slow down the video to help you, and don’t forget, the main thing is to have fun!
Play the notes of Mary Had A Little Lamb with the left hand on an interactive app
The La Touche Musicale app waits for you to play the correct note with your left hand on your piano before moving on to the next.
Well done! You can play the piano notes of this nursery rhyme with both your right and left hands!
No doubt you’re now wondering what the two will sound like together. Is your imagination and desire to try burning through your fingers?
Let’s not wait and see how to play the piano notes for Mary Had A Little Lamb with both hands.
Interpreting the notes of a piece on the piano by coordinating the two hands is an exercise that can be complicated at first. It’s perfectly normal not to succeed on the first try, so don’t worry if this stage takes a while. Use the following tips to ensure a clear and rewarding progression:
Divide the piece into small sections and concentrate on one section at a time. For each section, start by playing with the right hand only, then with the left, and gradually combine the two.
Once you’ve mastered the first sections, play them one after the other. This way, you’ll find it easier to play the whole piece.
Finally, be patient and persevering: learning to play both hands simultaneously takes time and practice, but with regularity you’ll get the hang of it.
Turn the piano into a joyful two-handed game in which every note is a spark of happiness!
Mary Had A Little Lamb on the piano: the notes of both hands.
This final video tutorial shows you how to play the notes with both hands. Press the keyboard keys as shown in the video and for as long as you like.
If the rhythm is difficult to maintain, slow down the speed of the video or pause it to give yourself time to rest your fingers properly on your keyboard.
Note: on La Touche Musicale, there’s no need to pause the song. The app waits until you play the correct note, and that, frankly, is pretty cool!
Play the notes of Mary Had A Little Lamb with both hands on an interactive app
The La Touche Musicale app waits for you to play the right notes with both hands on your piano before moving on to the next.
Congratulations on completing this section with flying colors! You’ve now mastered the art of playing the notes of the nursery rhyme Mary Had A Little Lamb using both hands on the piano. Congratulations!
If you’ve enjoyed following this tutorial, you can check out others on our blog, including:
You’ve learned to play the piano with both hands, Mary Had A Little Lamb is mastered. But what’s a pianist without a score?
We offer you the pdf score of this nursery rhyme, download it here: Mary Had A Little Lamb Partition pdf
Don’t hesitate to replay the notes of Mary Had A Little Lamb on the piano using our La Touche Musicale app.
Thank you for following this tutorial, it’s been a pleasure to walk this path with you!
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