Title: Ode To Joy
Instrument: piano
Level: big note
Genre: classical

ODE TO JOY is a very easy piano arrangement of Beethoven's Symphony 9 (Choral). It is remarkable that Beethoven managed to write his last symphony, because he was completely deaf. Teaching concepts include

Key of C major (no sharps, no flats)
4/4 time
C five finger hand position, except to stretch the pinky (finger 5) down to B in the left hand
Dotted quarter notes
Eighth notes - single eighth notes and eighths beamed in groups of 4
Subdividing the beat by counting 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and
Hand span of a minor 6th
Tied notes
8va - The right hand plays one octave higher than written
Dynamics - mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, and diminuendo
Ritardando e diminuendo (Slower and softer at the end of the piece)