I'm looking for piano sheet music for 'pop music', especially stuff that's easy to play for somebody who hasn't been learning to play the piano for that long.It's really difficult to find this stuff, because people usually only turn this stuff into sheet music if it will be relevant five years from now, which generally isn't the case for pop.Any help please?
There are thesehttps://www.halleonard.com/menu/1024/keyboard-style-series?seriesfeature=HLKSS&dt=item#productsDunno of you need them pirated.Honestly take this as a chance to practice listening and learn to play music by ear.
>>1567701>Dunno of you need them pirated.I do, ideally.>Honestly take this as a chance to practice listening and learn to play music by ear.It's not for me, my mother's a piano teacher but always struggles to find any music for 'pop' requests when she asks her pupils what sort of music they enjoy most.Also you should always learn to read and play from sheet music, get a solid foundation. It's not something you start with, playing by ear is something you can try much later.
>>1567710>It's not for me, my mother's a piano teacher but always struggles to find any music for 'pop' requests when she asks her pupils what sort of music they enjoy most.Owch, I don't think sheet music for pop stuff even gets published anymore unless it's a really big artist and getting it pirated surely will be even harder.>Also you should always learn to read and play from sheet music, get a solid foundation. It's not something you start with, playing by ear is something you can try much later.I'm aware of that but with the context of your mom being a teacher I recognize the need for easy music for her students.
>>1567710you could try tori amos piano books. just make sure its not any of her stuff with suggestive lyrics.
>>1567710If she’s earning her money as a piano teacher she probably should get the sheet music legally. Has she heard of musescore.com? You can find sheet music for pretty much any pop song there, often even an official score.
>>1567715>Owch, I don't think sheet music for pop stuff even gets published anymore unless it's a really big artist and getting it pirated surely will be even harder.Yeah this has been her struggle. She mentioned a song called "The entertainer" to me that she usually uses for this request, but it's a bit too hard for a fresh beginner to do.>I'm aware of that but with the context of your mom being a teacher I recognize the need for easy music for her students.Specifically this pupil in question has apparently been learning for three years with somebody else (at school?) and their playing is so poor that she's had to start completely from scratch and treat them as a fresh beginner. They've made huge strides of progress after 10 weeks and apparently they've said said they're showing interest in music for the first time now, and she'd really like to have something to give them to play as an extra motivator to keep going, but the genre they want is giving her despair.
>>1567732I don't know the name personally, but I'll mention it to her.>>1567744>If she’s earning her money as a piano teacher she probably should get the sheet music legally.Sure, if she wants to get an entire book of stuff for somebody who wants it, but she's a private tutor and rather than teaching an entire smorgasbord of pop songs that will hardly be relevant in a few years, she's looking for one or a couple of relevant songs for things that any given pupil who's interested has heard of, that she can teach them as a motivator. Part of keeping a new pupil or whatever motivated is giving them something they're interested in as a goal to work on, but finding something easy enough for them to do when their fave genre of music is 'pop' but they can still realistically play with under 3 month's experience is so difficult that she's now even resorted to asking me as a Hail Mary.>Has she heard of musescore.com? You can find sheet music for pretty much any pop song there, often even an official score.Probably not, she's quite old and fairly internet-illiterate. Is there one or two easy things I could grab the full score for and print off for her? I don't think anybody will care if I print off one or two things for her.One other problem by the way: She doesn't know pop music and neither do I, so I don't even know what somebody who likes pop in 2026 would like for music. I'm gonna need recommendations.
>>1567749have you tried the library? I remember seeing piano sheets books there >Adele>Coldplay >Lana Del Rey>Supertramp etc.just make copies of those
>>1567751I've sent her an email now with this suggestion, along with the other two thing from earlier. I'll see if I can pry more info out of her or whatever or if she sees something specific from all of this that look good.
>>1567749maybe look at what mainstream radio stations often play (e.g. bbc radio one)Also in case you can't download for free, there are userscripts for pirating off musescore.com
My mother's not able to receive Emails for whatever reason currently so I'm unable to check with her, for now at least I guess I'm still looking for one to a handful of simple pop song piano sheets I can download and print off for her. Thanks for any help.
>>1567679I would just tell you to think about what songs you want to learn, and search for arrangements for those.musescore is probably one of the best places. You can download PDFs too.>>1567749If it's for teaching piano, she should absolutely search for select the right ones herself. There are lots of bad arrangements, and if she's a professional, she will be able to decide which ones she can use.>I don't even know what somebody who likes pop in 2026 would like for music. I'm gonna need recommendations.You should absolutely find popular video game music. Anything from the classics to the latest ones. Video game music is a lot more relevant culturally in 2026 than radio pop slop, especially for young people. It's why I started to play the piano.
>>1567866I mean she should be the who selects the right arrangement, but you can search for the list of arrangement to suggest, obviously.
>>1567866>If it's for teaching piano, she should absolutely search for select the right ones herself. There are lots of bad arrangements, and if she's a professional, she will be able to decide which ones she can use.To a point yes she can, if she has them physically in front of her she definitely can, but I don't trust her abilities with the internet or computers at all for her to be able to search through musescore or generally look on the internet and be able to do it.Keep in mind here that she's 81 and only learned the very basics of internet use late in life and it's one of her two biggest weaknesses. To oversimplify her electronics usage abilities a bit, if you give her a three choice related question for something she should have some idea for the answer of then it will take her four guesses to get the correct answer on average.
