On this site you can find melodies for popular songs arranged for popular musical instruments and also new compositions by Peter Edvinsson. All notes can be downloaded without any obligations.
The melodies for guitar are arranged with traditional notation and corresponding tablature and includes chord symbols. El Condor Pasa is a traditional melody and popular song from Peru. More than 4,000 versions of the melody have been produced. The melody is arranged in E-minor with tabs.Amazing Grace is arranged in C-major in the first position and suitable for beginners. The words written by Newton and joined with "New Britain", the melody most currently associated with it, appeared for the first time in Walker's shape note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1847.
The song, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, is an English carol arranged in C-major and is free to download in PDF format. It was sung by children in Victorian times as they went about performing carols door to door on Christmas Eve, hoping for sweet rewards. Silent Night was composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber, my guitar version is in C-major and 3/4. It is believed that the carol has been translated into over 300 languages around the world, and it is one of the most popular carols of all time. Bing Crosby's version became his best-seller of the 1930s.
This version of Baa Baa Black Sheep is arranged with just one melody note at a time for your right and left hand to play.The song is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest printed version of which dates from around 1744. The most successful commercial version of the song The House Of The Rising Sun was, recorded in 1964 by the British rock band The Animals. This piano version is arranged in D-minor with chord symbols.
The most recent version of I'll See You in My Dreams to become a chart hit is by Pat Boone. It is the title track of his 1962 LP. The song is composed by Isham Jones, with lyrics by Gus Kahn, and published in 1924. The 'Sonata quasi una fantasia,' now commonly known as the Moonlight Sonata, was Ludwig Van Beethoven's 14th piano sonata, Opus 27, Number 2. He wrote and published it in 1801-1802 during the Classical era. The little piano solo Looking Through A Glass is a new simple composition by Peter Edvinsson.
You will also find my E-book Elementary My Friend with a collection with new piano compositions for beginners from elementary level and with some progression. You are free to download and print out the pages without any obligation. The primer level arrangement of Love Me Tender is made for new pianists and is to be played with only one note and finger at a time. You will find careful fingerings for every note and chord symbols.
My ukulele melodies are arranged with traditional notation and corresponding tablature below. America The Beautiful is a patriotic American song and was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey. The ukulele arrangement is in C-major with chord symbols above the notes. Scarborough Fair is a traditional English folk song from the Middle Ages. The song is referring to an old fair in Scarborough, Yorkshire. I have arranged the melody in D-minor.
Spanish Romance is a popular guitar solo, also called Romance d'Amour. Narciso Yepes (1927 — 1997) interpreted the piece in René Clément's 1952 film Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games). The popularity of the film gave the piece worldwide fame. My version for ukulele is arranged with the melody in D-minor. Bingo (also known as "Bingo Was His Name-O", "There Was a Farmer Had a Dog" or "B-I-N-G-O") is an English language children's song. I have arranged it in F-major, all notes in first position for beginners.
Danny Boy is a ballad, written by English songwriter Frederic Weatherly in 1913, and set to the traditional Irish melody of Londonderry Air. In 1992 Eric Clapton recorded an instrumental version released as a bonus track for Change the World. I have arranged the melody in F-major with traditional notation and tablature. One of the most famous performances of Happy Birthday to You was Marilyn Monroe's rendition to U.S. President John F. Kennedy in May 1962. Comedy pianist Victor Borge, played the song in styles of various composers. My arrangement for ukulele solo is in F-major.
The Christmas carol Go Tell It on the Mountain is an African-American spiritual song, compiled by John Wesley Work Jr., dating back to at least 1865, that has been sung and recorded by many gospel and secular performers. This ukulele arrangement is in swing style and in F-major.
Alouette is a popular French-language children's song arranged in G-major. In the film Blue Hawaii (1961), Elvis Presley is singing the song Almost Always True, based on the melody of Alouette. American Patrol is a popular march written by Frank White (F.W.) Meacham in 1885. I have arranged it in G-major and is intended to be played in swing style. Glenn Miller's Orchestra recorded a swing version of the march arranged by Jerry Gray in 1942 which was released as a 78 single on Victor Records.
How Great Thou Art is a Christian hymn based on an original Swedish hymn written in 1885 by Carl Boberg (1859–1940). This hymn was the title track of Elvis Presley's second gospel LP How Great Thou Art which was released in March 1967. My arrangement is in C-major. Land of Hope and Glory is a British patriotic song by Edward Elgar written in 1901. The violin notes are in G-major. The Christmas song Jingle Bells is one of the best-known and most commonly sung. American songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893).