Prelude in c major sheet music easy

The prelude in C major is a work of Johann Sebastian Bach that we all know very well. I will share the notes in this article. I wrote the note names so that you can play the notation easily.

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Bach – Prelude in C Major – Free Piano Score
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Such lovely Bach music as the Prelude in C is music every piano student should eventually have in their repertoire.

Fortunately, it is not very hard, even in its original form, offered here as a free printable download. 

Prelude in c major sheet music easy

What events is this Johann Sebastian Bach music suitable for?  

  • This beautiful and famous piano music makes great wedding music. 
  • It makes great church worship prelude music. 
  • It makes great piano student recital music!
Prelude in c major sheet music easy

Although it may sound -- and look! -- complicated to your students at first, they will likely be enchanted when you point out to them that every measure is just a repeating broken chord pattern.

This pattern changes by only a few notes from one measure to the next.

Also, the hands take turns playing, one at a time. Perfect for younger students.

Prelude in c major sheet music easy

Please scroll down the page for the printable PDF links.

When your students' hands can reach an octave, and they are beginning to recognize chord inversions, they will be able to learn this piece easily. 

For piano students whose hands are too small for the octaves, or who aren't ready or willing to take on the entire piece, there is a different way to sneak some original classical piano music onto their plate...

Prelude in c major sheet music easy

Please scroll down the page for the printable PDF links.

Here is Johann Sebastian Bach, in a bite-sized chunk!

In an effort to press more classical music upon my students, I started something new last year which I call "Classical Samplers," or "Classical Soundbites."

There's now a page at Music-for-Music-Teachers, with about a dozen or so of those classical "bites."

These are short excerpts from longer, mostly very famous piano pieces, that capture the flavor of the whole piece, but may be as short as 4 measures, as is this Bach excerpt, above (but most are much longer).

In this way, my students can get exposure to many more pieces in their original, not arranged, form.

Along with their regular lesson material, they will be working on a small segment of a longer classical work. Do they want to keep going and learn the whole piece? Some of them will, but others are satisfied with just an introduction.

We all know what an investment of time -- months! -- it can be to commit to a whole piece of classical music. If and when they do come back to it, they will be PRIMED.

Students whose hands are too small for the octaves, or who aren't ready for such a long piece, won't be overwhelmed by this large-note version of the first 4 measures of the Bach C Prelude.

It is exactly the same as the original, but seems easier with the big notes, even though they are still sixteenth notes. (It can be very liberating for young piano students to realize that sixteenth notes can actually be played slowly, as they are in this piece.)

P.S. Parents love the soothing, repetitious sounds of this Bach music, the "Praeludium I" in C... it can be very restful on the ears!

The link to the full, original Bach Prelude:

Free Bach music -- the original Prelude in C from the Well-Tempered Clavier. (Das Wohltempierte Klavier.) 

The link to the short introduction to the Bach Prelude:

Download free printable piano sheet music for J.S. Bach's Prelude in C Introduction 

Give your students the joy of learning Beethoven's famous Für Elise in an easy-to-read format... every note from the ORIGINAL piece is here in this beautiful new setting, which uses quarter notes instead of sixteenths.

Prelude in c major sheet music easy

Prelude in c major sheet music easy

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Dana Thynes

Hi, I'm Dana!  (Say that like "Anna".)  I'm the owner of Music-for-Music-Teachers.com, and a newer site, SingTheBibleStory.com.

Like some of you, I've been playing the piano since early childhood, and have added a few other instruments along the way, plus an interest in arranging and composing music.

Is Prelude in C Major easy?

Prelude in C-major, Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk. 1, BWV 846. In a way, this most simple and beautiful of Bach preludes is also one of the most accessible and easy to learn.

Is Prelude in C major hard?

It is not a very difficult piece in my opinion and so learning it the long way by playing it over and over and over again is feasible, but not recommended.

What grade level is Prelude in C?

Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Title
Prelude and Fugue No 1 in C major BWV 846
Grade
8
Syllabus
AMEB
PS Rating
8
Prelude and Fugue No 1 in C major BWV 846 - Piano Syllabuspianosyllabus.com › x-detailnull

Is Prelude in C Minor hard?

The C-sharp minor prelude, a youthful piece, is going to be the introduction to Rachmaninov for most pianists: that's because it's relatively easy to play and is quite popular with audiences.