Will Baily Free Printable Piano Pieces with Backing Tracks

Recently I was thrilled to discover Will Baily's Piano Tunes website.

It is full of engaging piano pieces in a variety of styles and levels. I love how many expressive pieces are pattern based with changing positions or octaves. Most are very lyrical and give you a movie soundtrack vibe.

Not only does he offer free printable pdfs of so many pieces, but there are also engaging backing tracks that really help bring the pieces to life and provide great support for some of the tricky rhythms.

I have organized some of my favorites below by concept and level with notes below about the main teaching elements of each piece. 

Primer Level 1

Garage Band- steps, C major pentascale position

Elementary Level 2 (HL2, Piano Adventures 1)

Stuntman - C minor pentascale, eighth notes

Roxburg- C minor, Intervals 1-6

Cotton Candy - slower, changing octaves, piggyback & crossovers

Late Elementary Level 3 (Hal Leonard 3, Piano Adventures 2A/2B, Pronto 1)

Caramel Popcorn - staccatos, accents, intervals 1-5

Opa! - c minor chord progression shells

Summer Nights - calm, eighth rests

Cakewalk - contrary motion

The Bunnyslope - C Major, 1-octave scales

Carousel- dotted eighths, balance LH melody

Floating on Air - intervals 1-5, syncopated pedal

Friends Across Time, syncopated pedal, expressive dynamics

2010 - intervals 5,7,8

Early Intermediate Level 4 (Hal Leonard 4, Piano Adventures 3A/3B, Pronto 2)

Snow Train -a minor, slow LH 158 scale degrees, RH cookie cutter 6ths

Beverly Hills - c minor, LH shifting 158 scale degrees

Catch the Wave-Intervals 1-5, changing time signatures 2/4,/3/4, 4/4, 3/8

Summer Nights - eighth rests, syncopation

Coaster Ride - 6/8 time signatures, crossovers

Shared Moments - C Major, calm expressive dynamic changes, octave leaps

Sylvia's Song- a minor melancholy, LH 1-5-8-9-10

Village by the Sea - d minor, LH 1-5-8-9-10

Silhouette - LH 1-5-8-5-9 arpeggio stretch, LH shifts/alignment

Midnight Boogie- 12 bar blues, stomp swing rhythm, acciacatura

Sliver By the River - 12 bar blues, stomp swing rhythm, acciacatura, triplets

Intermediate Level 5 (Hal Leonard 5, Piano Adventures 4/5, Pronto 3/4)

Sad Eyes - LH shifts, pop style single eighth rhythms

Don't Judge Me - shifting LH Cookie Cutter 5ths

Movie Theme - F Major +accidentals, shifting LH, tricky tied rhythms, 

P.J. Shuffle - jazzy swing, walking LH intervals, acciacatura

Jazmine - sixteenth patterns with syncopation

Long Way Home - slower, LH 1-5-8-9-10 pattern, e minor, syncopation, shifting octaves

Argentine Sky- c minor, slower, LH 7ths, LH 1-5-8-9-10 pattern

Family Album -C Major, peaceful, LH 1-5-8-9-10 pattern

Imagine That - G Major, gentle, LH 1-5-8-9-10, sequence, tenuto

Tarantella - fast 6/8 with sixteenths, F Major, shifting octaves

Wait for Me - D Major, many accidentals

You are the One - dotted 16ths, LH 1-5-8 

Times Square - tricky changing time signatures 3/8, 2/8, 2/4, 4/4