Here are 60 of my favorite easy songs for beginner violin. If you are just starting to learn violin, having lots of easy violin songs to play will help keep your motivation going! I’ve made a collection of 60 easy violin songs for beginners. There’s plenty of easy violin sheet music here to keep you busy for a while!

I’ve transposed all of these songs into easy to play key signatures for the violin and I’ve also included a first position note guide and a key signature reference guide for finger patterns in every key signature.

Enjoy the free sheet music for all of these violin songs! While I love creating these violin arrangements, they do take a considerable amount of time to notate, arrange, edit, test-play, and upload. If you want to download and print all of this music (and much more), you can with my Online Studio Membership, where you’ll get access to all of my courses and my Sheet Music Library (a collection of over 200 easy, intermediate, and advanced violin songs). Learn more about becoming part of my online studio here!

I’ve separated these easy violin songs for beginners into a few categories. To jump ahead, click below.

Violin Note Guide and Key Signature Reference

Brand New Beginner Violin Sheet Music

Traditional Violin Songs

Easy Fiddle Sheet Music and Irish Songs for Violin

Easy Classical Songs for Violin

Intermediate Traditional and Irish Songs for Violin

Easy Hymns for Violin

Easy Violin Christmas Songs

Violin Note Guide

These are all of the notes that you may need for the easy violin songs below. These are all of the notes in first position on the violin. You may find this helpful if you are teaching yourself violin. The finger numbers are above the notes.

This key signature reference guide may look confusing. It just tells you the finger pattern for every key signature. Those little arrows mean the fingers are half steps apart, or they’re touching on the violin fingerboard. Need more explanation? My Creative Scales Course covers all of these scales and finger patterns in detail.

Brand New Beginner Violin Sheet Music

Now on to the 60 easy violin songs for beginners! This first group of easy songs for violin can be played by brand new beginners. Use the first position violin note guide above to help you know where to put your fingers.

If you’re not quite ready for note reading yet, or maybe you just want some even easier songs for violin, check out my Easiest Violin Songs Ever (Violin Tab—No Note Reading).

Boil Them Cabbage Down

2. Can-Can

3. French Folk Song

4. Go Tell Aunt Rhodie

5. Hot Cross Buns

Need some more help learning how to play these songs for violin? I’ll show you everything you need to know in my Complete Beginner’s Violin Course. Click below to learn more!

6. Lightly Row

7. Mary Had a Little Lamb

8. Oh! Susanna

9. O Come, Little Children

10. Sweet Betsy From Pike

11. Buffalo Gals

Traditional Violin Songs

This collection of traditional easy violins songs includes lots of old time favorite fiddle tunes and traditional songs that everyone enjoys. Want to download these songs? Check out my Sheet Music Library in my online studio where you can download all of these songs plus dozens more!

Interested in more traditional violin songs? Check out my other collections below

3 Easy Fiddle Tunes

Stephen Foster Songs for Violin

12. Home on the Range

13. Maiden’s Prayer

14. Camptown Races

15. Yankee Doodle

16. Yellow Rose of Texas

17. Scarborough Fair

18. Redwing

19. Lorena

Easy Fiddle and Irish Songs Sheet Music

Everyone loves these classic easy fiddle tunes for violin. Sometimes I’ll start out with an easy version of the fiddle tune and then give you some embellishment options, like in Old Joe Clark below.

20. Old Joe Clark

21. Cripple Creek

22. Oh, The Britches Full of Stitches

23. Soldier’s Joy

24. John Ryan’s Polka

25. Midnight on the Water

Easy Classical Songs for Violin

If you would like to learn some easy classical songs for the violin, here’s of few of the easier classical songs for violin.

If you would like more wonderful options for easy classical songs, check out my collection of Classical Songs for Violin.

Easy Songs from Classical Music for Violin

Sheet Music Library

26. Merry Widow Waltz

27. All Through the Night

28. Brahms’ Lullaby

29. Donna Nobis Pacem

Intermediate Fiddle and Irish Songs Sheet Music

Now we’re going to get into some slightly more advanced traditional and Irish songs for violin. I consider many of these songs to still be appropriate for beginner level violinists, but you’ll find some have tricky rhythms, advanced note reading concepts, and other items that make these songs a little tricky.

30. Michael Row Your Boat Ashore

31. My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean

Want to play a super easy duet with me on the violin? I’ve got a duet included in my Complete Beginner’s Course for My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.

32. Santa Lucia

Want to play a super easy Santa Lucia duet on the violin? I’ve got one included in my Complete Beginner’s Course.

33. The Man on the Flying Trapeze

34. Volga Boatman

35. Wayfairing Stranger

36. What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor

37. Ash Grove

38. Danny Boy

38. Wild Mountain Thyme (Will You Go, Lassie)

39. Whiskey in the Jar

40. The Wild Rover

I’ve got a video tutorial on this fun Irish fiddle song in my studio!

41. Rosin the Bow

42. Black Velvet Band

43. Angeline the Baker

44. Old Folks at Home

45. Hard Times Come Again No More

46. Devil’s Dream

47. The Parting Glass

48. Swallowtail Jig

Swallowtail Jig is one of the most popular easy fiddle tunes ever! And for good reason. It’s a ton of fun to play on the violin, ahem, I mead fiddle. I’ve got a full tutorial on Swallowtail Jig as part of my membership, along with many other song tutorials. Check it out here.

49. Aura Lee

Enjoy my free video tutorial and scale warm-up on Aura Lee here.

Aura Lee Tutorial and Scale Warm-Up

Easy Hymns for Vioiln Sheet Music

You can also download my free book of violin hymns. Enjoy over 50 classic hymns transposed just for violin. And for those of you who are interested in learning third position, this hymn book also features additional verses in higher octaves, perfect for third position!

Get the free book, Favorite Hymns for the Violin here.

50. Be Thou My Vision

51. Come Thou Fount

52. Count Your Blessings

53. He Leadeth Me

54. Jesus Loves Me

55. How Firm a Foundation

56. Blest Be the Tie That Binds

57. Amazing Grace

Easy Christmas Songs for Violin Sheet Music

Below you’ll find just a taste of easy Christmas songs for violin. I’ve got lots of Christmas songs for violin in my online studio, Sheet Music Library as well.

58. Jolly Old St. Nicholas

59. Silent Night

60. Joy to the World

Congratulations! You’ve made it to the end. Hopefully you’ll find something in these 60 Songs for Violin to keep you busy! Feel free to search through my collection of Free Sheet Music here.

By the way, you can print and download ALL of this music when you join my online membership. You’ll get access to all of my courses as well as my sheet music library with over 150 Songs for violin, ranging from easy to intermediate and advanced.

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