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“The Little Drummer Boy” is a popular Christmas song was written by the American classical music composer Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941, based upon a traditional Czech carol.
On this page you can find Notes, Chords and Activities for the song, a Printable PDF for free Download, and a piano tutorial video.
Table of Contents
- How to play The Little Drummer Boy on the Piano – Easy Piano Tutorial Video
- Sheet music with chords
- Free Printable PDF with Music sheet and Lyrics
- Teaching ideas
How to play The Little Drummer Boy on the Piano – Easy Piano Tutorial Video
Sheet music with chords
To save this free music sheet of “The Little Drummer Boy” to your computer, right click (or tap and hold, on mobile devices) and choose “Save Image As…”.
26+1 Easy Christmas Piano Sheet Music for Beginners
Free Printable PDF with Music sheet and Lyrics
To download a ready-to-print PDF of this song for music activities with a music sheet, lyrics and a drawing for kids to paint, right click (or tap and hold) on the following link, then choose “Save link as…”.
“Little Drummer Boy” free PDF download – Singing Bell
Teaching ideas
This song is a good opportunity for children to practice the change between half and quarters and repeat a stable motif.
Ask them to clap (or use a little drum) steadily on the scheme “one half-two quarters” and then the teacher starts to sing alone.
It’s not so easy for children to keep the actual song rhythm without following the rhythm of the lyrics, but there can be a real challenge for them: who is going to be the little drummer that will play the big drum of the class?
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