About Pianumero

Pianumero teaches the piano with numbers. Each key a song uses wears a coloured sticker with a number, from the lowest key to the highest: to play the song, press the numbers in order. No sheet music, one hand, white keys only — you play your first song in a minute. How the method works.

Free songs, for everyone

Every melody on this site is in the public domain: folk songs, nursery rhymes, and Beethoven's Ode to Joy (1824). The easy one-hand arrangements, the number sheets and the MIDI files are free to use and share for learning — send them to a friend, print them, play them in class.

• Happy Birthday — Mildred and Patty Hill
• Ode to Joy — Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 (1824)
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star — French melody, English nursery rhyme
• Bella Ciao — Italian folk song
• Beethoven · Für Elise — Beethoven, Bagatelle No. 25 WoO 59 (1810)
• Eine kleine Nachtmusik — Mozart, Serenade No. 13 K.525 (1787)
• Can-Can — Offenbach, Orpheus in the Underworld (1858)
• Korobeiniki — Russian folk song, words by Nikolai Nekrasov (1861)
• Bingo — English and American children's song
• The Itsy Bitsy Spider — Traditional children's song
• Auld Lang Syne — Scottish tune, words by Robert Burns (1788)
• Brother John (Frère Jacques) — French round
• La Bamba — Mexican folk song (son jarocho)
• Mary Had a Little Lamb — American nursery rhyme
• London Bridge Is Falling Down — English nursery rhyme
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm — English nursery rhyme
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat — English round
• Pop Goes the Weasel — English nursery rhyme
• For He's a Jolly Good Fellow — The tune, with its French words (Malbrough)
• Au Clair de la Lune — French folk song
• À la claire fontaine — French folk song
• Alouette — French-Canadian folk song
• Sur le pont d'Avignon — French folk song
• Il était un petit navire — French sea song
• Cadet Rousselle — French folk song
• J'ai du bon tabac — French folk song
• Mozart · Symphony No. 40 — Mozart, Symphony No. 40 K.550 (1788)
• Mozart · Sonata Facile — Mozart, Piano Sonata No. 16 K.545 (1788)
• Papageno (The Magic Flute) — Mozart, The Magic Flute K.620 (1791), words by Schikaneder
• In the Hall of the Mountain King — Grieg, Peer Gynt (1875)
• Amazing Grace — Words by John Newton (1779), tune « New Britain »
• Mozart · Lacrimosa — Mozart, Requiem K.626 (1791)
• Pachelbel · Canon in D — Pachelbel, Canon in D (c. 1680)
• Tchaikovsky · Swan Lake — Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake (1876)
• Beethoven · Symphony No. 5 — Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 (1808)
• Joplin · The Entertainer — Scott Joplin, The Entertainer (1902)
• When the Saints Go Marching In — American spiritual
• Greensleeves — English tune (16th century)
• Bach · Minuet in G — Petzold, Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (1725)
• Grieg · Morning Mood — Grieg, Peer Gynt (1875)
• Yankee Doodle — American song (18th century)
• Brahms · Waltz — Brahms, Waltz Op. 39 No. 15 (1865)
• Verdi · Brindisi — Verdi, La Traviata (1853)
• Debussy · Clair de Lune — Debussy, Suite bergamasque (1890)
• Satie · Gymnopédie No. 1 — Erik Satie, Trois Gymnopédies (1888)
• Schumann · Träumerei — Schumann, Scenes from Childhood Op. 15 (1838)
• Beethoven · Pathétique — Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 8 Op. 13, Adagio cantabile (1798)
• Chopin · Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 — Chopin, Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 (1832)
• Sousa · Stars and Stripes — John Philip Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever (1896)
• Chopin · Prelude in A — Chopin, Prelude Op. 28 No. 7 (1839)
• Bizet · Habanera — Bizet, Carmen (1875)
• Strauss · The Blue Danube — Johann Strauss II, The Blue Danube Op. 314 (1867)
• Bizet · Toreador Song — Bizet, Carmen (1875)
• Verdi · La donna è mobile — Verdi, Rigoletto (1851)
• Funiculì, Funiculà — Luigi Denza, words by Peppino Turco (1880)
• Mendelssohn · Wedding March — Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream (1842)
• Joplin · Maple Leaf Rag — Scott Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag (1899)
• Bach · Prelude in C — J. S. Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier I, Prelude No. 1 (1722)
• Chopin · Minute Waltz — Chopin, Waltz Op. 64 No. 1 (1847)
• Brahms · Lullaby — Brahms, Wiegenlied Op. 49 No. 4 (1868)
• Di Capua · 'O sole mio — Eduardo di Capua, 'O sole mio (1898)
• Danny Boy — Irish tune, the Londonderry Air (published 1855)
• Scarborough Fair — Traditional English ballad
• Foster · Oh! Susanna — Stephen Foster, Oh! Susanna (1848)
• Bach · Air on the G String — J. S. Bach, Orchestral Suite No. 3, Air (c. 1730)
• Bach · Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring — J. S. Bach, Cantata BWV 147 (1723)
• Vivaldi · Spring — Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, Spring (1725)
• Dvořák · New World Largo — Dvořák, Symphony No. 9, From the New World (1893)
• Chopin · Prelude in E minor — Chopin, Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 (1839)
• Santa Lucia — Neapolitan song, published by Teodoro Cottrau (1849)
• Home on the Range — American song, by Daniel E. Kelley and Brewster M. Higley (c. 1872)
• Hava Nagila — Traditional Hasidic tune, arranged by Abraham Zevi Idelsohn (1918)
• Sakura Sakura — Traditional Japanese song (published 1888)
• Sousa · Liberty Bell — John Philip Sousa, The Liberty Bell (1893)
• Mozart · Sonata K. 331 Theme — Mozart, Piano Sonata No. 11 K. 331, Andante grazioso (1783)
• Beethoven · Turkish March — Beethoven, Six Variations, Op. 76 (1809)
• Beethoven · God Save the King — Beethoven, 7 Variations on God Save the King, WoO 78 (1803)
• Grieg · Wedding Day at Troldhaugen — Grieg, Lyric Pieces, Op. 65 (1896)
• Satie · Gymnopédie No. 3 — Erik Satie, Trois Gymnopédies (1888)
• Burgmüller · Arabesque — Burgmüller, 25 Easy Studies, Op. 100 (1851)
• Bach · Minuet in G minor — Petzold, Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (1725)
• Rameau · Tambourin — Rameau, Pièces de clavecin (1724)
• Sousa · El Capitan — John Philip Sousa, El Capitan (1896)
• Schubert · Moment Musical No. 3 — Schubert, Moments Musicaux D. 780 (1823)
• Strauss · Thunder and Lightning — Johann Strauss II, Thunder and Lightning Polka Op. 324 (1868)
• Tchaikovsky · Wooden Soldiers — Tchaikovsky, Album for the Young Op. 39 (1878)
• Tchaikovsky · Old French Song — Tchaikovsky, Album for the Young Op. 39 (1878)
• Beethoven · Moonlight Sonata — Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 14, Op. 27 No. 2 (1801)
• Bach · Toccata and Fugue in D minor — Johann Sebastian Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (c. 1708)
• Beethoven · Symphony No. 7, Allegretto — Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 7, Op. 92, 2nd movement (1812)
• Mozart · Piano Concerto No. 21, Andante — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 (1785)
• Mozart · Ave verum corpus — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ave verum corpus, K. 618 (1791)
• Haydn · Surprise Symphony, Andante — Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 94 in G major, Surprise (1791)
• Handel · Hallelujah Chorus — George Frideric Handel, Messiah, HWV 56 (1741)
• Schubert · Ave Maria — Franz Schubert, Ellens dritter Gesang (Ave Maria), D. 839 (1825)
• Haydn · Das Lied der Deutschen — Joseph Haydn, Kaiserhymne (1797), the tune of Das Lied der Deutschen
• Lavallée · O Canada — Calixa Lavallée, Ô Canada (1880)
• McCormick · Advance Australia Fair — Peter Dodds McCormick, Advance Australia Fair (1878)
• Anonymous · Het Wilhelmus — Anonymous 16th-century tune, Het Wilhelmus (written down in 1626)
• Hayashi · Kimigayo — Hiromori Hayashi, Franz Eckert, Kimigayo (1880)
• Pacius · Maamme — Fredrik Pacius, Maamme / Vårt land (1848)
• Hot Cross Buns — Traditional English nursery rhyme (street cry, 18th century)
• Three Blind Mice — Traditional English round, first printed in Thomas Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia (1609)
• The Muffin Man — Traditional English nursery rhyme (19th century)
• Rock-a-bye Baby — Traditional lullaby (English/American, words attributed to Effie Crockett, 1887)
• Hush, Little Baby — Traditional American lullaby (also called Mockingbird)
• Skip to My Lou — Traditional American play-party song (19th century)
• This Old Man — Traditional English children's counting song (Knick-Knack Song)
• Oh Shenandoah — Traditional American sea shanty and folk song (19th century)
• The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond — Traditional Scottish song (published 1841, Lady John Scott)
• Waltzing Matilda — Banjo Paterson (words, 1895); melody arranged by Marie Cowan (1903) from a tune heard by Christina Macpherson
• Traditional · Molly Malone — Traditional Irish song (19th century), also known as Cockles and Mussels
• Traditional · Dodo, l'enfant do — Traditional French lullaby (18th century)
• Traditional · Auprès de ma blonde — Traditional French song (c. 1704), also known as Le Prisonnier de Hollande
• Traditional · La Cucaracha — Traditional Mexican corrido (19th century), Spanish in origin
• Larionov · Kalinka — Ivan Larionov, Kalinka (1860)
• Gruber · Silent Night — Franz Xaver Gruber, Stille Nacht (1818), words by Joseph Mohr
• Pierpont · Jingle Bells — James Lord Pierpont, Jingle Bells (1857)
• Handel · Joy to the World — George Frideric Handel (theme) and Lowell Mason (arrangement, 1848), words by Isaac Watts (1719)
• Wade · O Come, All Ye Faithful — John Francis Wade, Adeste Fideles (c. 1743)
• Mendelssohn · Hark! The Herald Angels Sing — Felix Mendelssohn, Festgesang (1840), adapted by William H. Cummings (1855), words by Charles Wesley
• Kirkpatrick · Away in a Manger — William J. Kirkpatrick, Away in a Manger, tune « Cradle Song » (1895)
• Air gallois · Deck the Halls — Traditional Welsh air « Nos Galan » (16th century), Deck the Halls (lyrics 1862)
• Air anglais · We Wish You a Merry Christmas — Traditional English carol, We Wish You a Merry Christmas (West Country, 16th century)
• Monk · Abide with Me — William Henry Monk, tune « Eventide » for the hymn Abide with Me (1861)
• Steffe · Battle Hymn of the Republic — William Steffe, tune of John Brown's Body; Julia Ward Howe, Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861)
• Air traditionnel · Il est né le divin Enfant — Traditional French carol, Il est né, le divin Enfant (words 1862)
• Air traditionnel · O Tannenbaum — Traditional German air, O Tannenbaum (words by Ernst Anschütz, 1824)
• Flies · Mozart's Lullaby — Bernhard Flies (formerly attributed to Mozart, K. 350), Wiegenlied « Schlafe, mein Prinzchen, schlaf ein » (c. 1796)
• Schubert · Serenade (Ständchen) — Franz Schubert, Ständchen « Leise flehen meine Lieder », D. 957 No. 4 (Schwanengesang, 1828)
• Chopin · Raindrop Prelude — Frédéric Chopin, Prelude in D-flat major, Op. 28 No. 15 « Raindrop » (1839)
• Chopin · Funeral March — Frédéric Chopin, Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 35, 3rd movement (1839)
• Schumann · The Wild Horseman — Robert Schumann, Album for the Young, Op. 68, No. 8 (1848)
• Schumann · The Happy Farmer — Robert Schumann, Album for the Young, Op. 68, No. 10 (1848)
• Tchaikovsky · Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (1892)
• Tchaikovsky · Nutcracker March — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, Op. 71, March (1892)
• Handel · Arrival of the Queen of Sheba — George Frideric Handel, Solomon, HWV 67, Sinfonia “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” (1748)
• Strauss · Radetzky March — Johann Strauss I, Radetzky March, Op. 228 (1848)
• Wagner · Ride of the Valkyries — Richard Wagner, Die Walküre, Act III, Ride of the Valkyries (1856)
• Rossini · William Tell Overture (Finale) — Gioachino Rossini, William Tell, Overture, finale (1829)
• Offenbach · Barcarolle — Jacques Offenbach, The Tales of Hoffmann, Barcarolle (1881)
• Dvořák · Humoresque No. 7 — Antonín Dvořák, Humoresques, Op. 101 No. 7 (1894)
• Saint-Saëns · The Swan — Camille Saint-Saëns, The Carnival of the Animals, No. 13, The Swan (1886)
• Verdi · Va, pensiero — Giuseppe Verdi, Nabucco, Act III, chorus of the Hebrew slaves, Va, pensiero (1842)
• Mendelssohn · Spring Song — Felix Mendelssohn, Songs Without Words, Op. 62 No. 6, Spring Song (1844)
• Delibes · Flower Duet — Léo Delibes, Lakmé, Act I, Flower Duet, Sous le dôme épais (1883)
• Elgar · Land of Hope and Glory — Edward Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D, Op. 39 No. 1 (1901), trio theme
• Mussorgsky · Promenade — Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, Promenade (1874)
• Ravel · Boléro — Maurice Ravel, Boléro (1928), first theme
• Brahms · Hungarian Dance No. 5 — Johannes Brahms, Hungarian Dance No. 5 (1869)
• Bach · Badinerie — Johann Sebastian Bach, Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067, Badinerie (c. 1739)

"Happy Birthday to You" (Mildred and Patty Hill) has been in the public domain in the United States since 2016 and in Europe since 2017. La Bamba here is the traditional Mexican song, not a recording or arrangement of it.

Play with your computer keyboard

On a song, press 1, 2, 3…: the numbers on the keys. Or use the letters shown on the keys (they follow your keyboard's layout). On the free piano, Z and X move an octave down or up.

How the songs are made

Each song is written note by note as a short one-hand arrangement, moved to C major or A minor so that it stays on the white keys as much as possible, from its traditional melody. A script checks every song before it is published: each bar is complete, every syllable of the words falls on one note, and every note is within reach of a beginner's hand (between G below middle C and the G two octaves above). The same arrangements drive the lessons, the number sheets, the letter notes and the MIDI files.

Free video lessons

Pianumero also teaches on video. The YouTube channel has long, free lessons that take a piece step by step: you listen to it first, then learn it two bars at a time, one hand and then the other, slowly and then up to tempo, and finish by playing it whole. Short clips are on Instagram and Facebook.

Your progress

A free account keeps your stars and best scores on every song. It needs an email and a password, nothing else; you can delete it, with everything in it, at any time.

Who makes it

Pianumero is made by Loïc Berthod, an independent developer in Grône, Switzerland. Questions, a song you would like to see, a mistake in a song? Write to contact@pianumero.com.

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