July 3rd, 2010 by Lisa | 192 Comments »
How to Play Battle Hymn of the Republic
Enjoy learning how to play the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The videos are shown using the Instant Play Sheet Music. Instant Play Sheet Music is written in diagrams of the piano showing you where to place your fingers to learn this song fast and easy! No “note” reading necessary!
For those who know how to read music, I have included the sheet music download as well… (no video needed for those who know how to read the sheet music.)
Here are your download links:
Battle Hymn – Instant Play Version
Battle Hymn – Sheet Music
This first video shows an overview of how to use the Instant Play Music Sheet:
This video shows the chords on the piano:
This video shows the right hand:
This video is part 1 of hands together:
This video is part 2 of hands together:
Here are your download links again:
Battle Hymn – Instant Play Version
Enjoy!
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Thanks Lisa, Your idea to show folks how to play piano right away is a great way to keep the intereste up. I like the quick reward of playing a piece as a way to keep me motivated to learn more advanced techniques. Thanks, Fred
THIS HAS BEEN SO HELPFUL TO ME THANK YOU SO MUCH.PLEASE REMEMBER ME AGAIN
MARTHA WHITTEEN
Thanks so much for the free song. My daughter and I are enjoying learning to play it together. So far we have found all of your lessons to be great. Your instructions keep things simple which helps confidence grow!
Thanks so much for the free lessons. We are so enjoying them!
Joanna and daughter Allie
I really enjoyed this lesson because you break it down so much that i can really understand what you’re doing.
Thanks!
-Paisley
Lisa, Thanks so much for all your help. I love how you teach, I have learned so much! This song was great and easy to learn. I never played any instrument before, but I always wanted to play the keyboard or piano. This is great therapy for me, and at 62 I am learning to play music and not just on a radio! LOL
Thanks again
Sandy
Hello Lisa Mam…
Thanks for everything……
Hi Lisa …everything about your instructions was great .the only thing was ,i didnt know where to place my left hand . didnt know how far away from middle C ..thats the only feedback i have ….
thanks
Very nice indeed. Your lesson was easy to understand and do using numbers for fingers; however I personally would like to learn the notes on a page – a c d, excetra along with the finger numbers. This way I would be learning not only to play what you present but would learn to play any sheet of music I happen to pick up by reading the musical notes. Thanks for the lesson.
I’m an occasional pianist, and I’m always glad when I can carve out some time to play. Thanks for the “Battle Hymn.” It got me going again, and I was gratified at how much I remembered from prior practice.
Thank you Lisa. You made playing the piano seem easy. Now, I am practising and smiling more often
I have very little piano experience. Your instructions are very easy to understand. I was able to play the song with my right hand fairly quickly. I will keep practicing the left hand. I really appreciate the videos. They help me see the finger changes and then I can play it easier. Thanks for making piano playing so enjoyable!! You are a wonderful piano teacher!! May God bless you!
Very help video good teaching lisa
Don’t think my message went through. I just need to spend more time on your site. I haven’t played in about 20 years, but I do have a Yahama keyboard now. I took lesson for about 8 years, and now I need a refresher course.
Donna
I just need to spend more time on this site. Looking for a refresher course. I haven’t played in about 20 years, but I do have a Yahama keyboard now.
Donna
Great choice for the 4th! Now that I’m putting the time in, this starting to work!
I was so keen to learn piano yet i failed every attempt to play even a simple song. Not until i found your website! Thank you for developing this websites to help beginners like me to get a head start on how to play the piano! You have help people like and i would like to congratulate you for doing such helpful websites!
I am a little older than most students trying to learn to play the piano and your videos and lesson so far have made it very simple for me- Not bad for an old fart of 56.
Thanks for your free lesson. I would appreciate if you can send me the sheet music of “Heart and soul”
I love the way you put numbers above the words for the notes. I don’t read music well but I have been typing for years and somehow my brain relates better to the seeing letters and numbers then it does to seeing musical notes on a scale. Thank you so much.
I loved the fact that it was patriotic but simple enough for me to learn quickly! It was awesome to be playing a well known song and making it sound great! I didn’t like the insta-play as well as the sheet music. I also was confused about the numbers in perenthesis above the staff i.e.: (3), (4) Great song to learn!
i was wondering if u could send me songs like amazing grace , above all, at the cross, mighty to save .. i would greatly appreciate that … thanx!!
Thank you so much for this site and for giving others the inspiration to play! I have always played out of ‘fake books’. This is the only way I can learn. I am self taught. I am totally dyslexic and my eyes cannot follow melody notes and bass notes at the same time. I get a migraine like you would not believe! I am going to keep on practicing though. And yes, I am smiling…….
Hi Lisa, u really inspire me with these songs ta where i can print them off !!!
Really, I have never thought that someone can learn to play piano online, but your method showed me that it is possible. Your lesson is very easy to understand. I practice the lessons on my electronic keyboard everyday.
Only thing I was confused is that chords on your lesson were written up to down , but it seems to me that chords are written left to right on most note sheets. Could you please explain us about it? Is there any difference between them?
Many thanks for your lessons. It is really helpful for all.
If this is the way you teach all lessons, ANYBODY CAN LEARN. I will be signing up. Thanks !!!
thanks alot for the videos, with the little i’ve practiced, i’ve really seen great improvement in my piano skills.
i hope to receive more of your free lessons, especially lessons on Chords their names and their applications. can’t appreciate you enough.
Thanks, this is great and I am making steady progress.
Abraham
Hi Lisa,
Thank you for sharing your musical talent, piano skills and knowledge.
Being a visual learner, I find the color co-ordinated number system most helpful in preparing me before progressing to the sheet music. I’m learning to easily chord by using the chord reminders which are strategically and clearly indicated on the numbered fingering pages. I find that playing the song by using the fingering method is a great stepping stone to playing the sheet music.
I am progressing, albeit slowly. I need to continue to practice moving my right hand more smoothly to different positions on the keyboard.
A sincere thank you!
Theresa
dear lisa,
thank you again
mary
I just started with your lessons
I work long hours ,but enjoy the little bit of time I get in the evenings to practice.
I’m enjoying the lessons
Thanks
Hey Lisa,
The work that you do is truly appreciable. Though these links and the mails you send are not charged, the quality is never compromised upon. Excellent work! God bless!
Lisa, you inspire! The piece had just enough challenge for a beginner and you broke it down and made it easy to understand. Thank you. With every lesson I feel I am getting somewhere, albeit after some frustration! Lovely!
I love getting your free lessons. I was hoping you would put a video on that would cover exactly what the left hand plays on the sheet music, like you did with the right hand. I am teaching myself, and that would have been helpful to me. Other than that, I love that you posted this song. I have been looking for a version of this song that I can play. Thank you.
ur way of teaching is really easy and encouraging, it arouse my enthusiasm in further learning. I tried many free piano lessons online, but yours were the best, the easiest and the most organized. I can’t wait till i am legal to get my visa and buy ur lessons .. thx a lot
Thank you very much for the free lesson
It’s so exciting reciving new songs to play in my mail! I get to learn lots of new songs that I love to play. The videos and lessons are so easy to understand and very effective! I’m still getting back to the rythem of practicing but I’ll do it every day from now on and hope to play the piano very well 
~Katie
dear lisa
thanks for your free lesson and all the others. i am saving to buy a keyboard,( 88 key) and am almost there, then i will be buying your coarse as i really like your easy to understand method of teaching.
thanking you once again
kind regards
colin page
Excellent song… I really enjoy the things you publish, keep going!!
From Venezuela you have this piano friend haha
Hello Lisa,
It was wonderful and easy to learn.
you are awesome.
Thank You,
Kind Regards
Joseph
Great lesson videos. Explained well. I’m taking lessons now with a teacher, but this is so easy. Maybe I’ll switch! I like the way you explain all the changes in hand positions.
Very easy and quick to learn the song! I am enjoying the lessons! I think I might join!
Thanks to your help, support and reminder to smile, I have made some amazing progress in just a few short weeks. People are saying “I didn’t know Jeff played the piano.” Love it!
Grea lisa! Much more fun to learn songs! Festive for the time of the year! Keep the songs coming.
The beginning lessons are well planned. This style is perfect for the beginner. Of course, practice, practice, practice is the key. I do have a question. Many years ago when I received lessons, the teacher had me do something very different on the right hand. With your same numbering system for the fingers, she would have the thumb on middle C up to the little finger on G. But, when playing the scale, the thumb would replace the finger on F. So, the finger numbering up the scale from middle C would be 1,2,3,1,2,3,4,5. I am not sure if she was doing this as her own technique or if it was the proper way of playing the scale. Maybe I haven’t went far enough in the lessons. Yes, at some point in the future, I will be subscribing to your lessons. At the moment, I will be working only on the basics. And, you cover the basics perfectly.
Thanks
Dear Lisa,
Very appreciative of the free lessons. They are easy to understand and I hope you will continue giving the lessons on line. You have a natural talent to teach people of all ages. Thank you very much and hope to receive more.
Thanks for your dedicated efforts to provide free and easily comprehendible lessons. kudos to the best teacher of Piano.
Warm Regards,
Sarita
Thank you for the free song and lesson. I love the Battle Hymn of the Republic. It was one that many years ago on a piano my Grandmother had, that I started learning to play by ear. Your lessons are so easy to play and understand.
Thank you again.
Lisa,
I purchased a piano before my first lesson and was very anxious. I wasn’t sure if I would ever really be able to play. But your approach to learning has been very simple, and I LOVE my piano. I enjoyed the new song, only wished it showed how long to hold each note/chord. Thankfully, I know the song, so maybe I got it close to right! Thanks again!
Thank you! The lesson was WONDERFUL! Easy to watch and follow. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to see your work and your lessons. I will be passing on your website information to other Homeschoolers I know. Thank you!
Thanks for the lesson…I am enjoying it very much..I like the sound of the train in the back ground. Now I know that you live close to a railroad.
God Bless.
Anne
very nice, and very appropriate for the day!
thank you!
mike
I need the finger position and how use left hand and choord.Thank you and big smille from CROATIA
Hi Lisa,
First of all I would like to thank you for all the e-mails and lessons you sent me! This lesson here was, like the other ones, very fun and easy to learn because of the way you do it. The way you show us how to play each cord at the right time, the sheet music, everything just makes the practice more fun and easy. You have really showed me that you have to enjoy practicing, even if it’s just a little each day. I was having keyboard lessons at a music school here in Brazil and after i started with your lessons, I changed to piano, because i think it is prettier and more classic than keyboard. It’s more difficult, but practicing and liking it makes it easier!
Thanks for everything!
Adriana Guimaraes
very easy to learn, easy to understand.
thank you for your continued teachings
Jackie
Very good. I shall practice the sheet music of Battle Hymn.
Thank You
Yours
Joseph
Thanks for free lesson.
Great song, great instructions. It’s very easy to follow.
Anton
thank you so much I’m going to play on my worship team
thank you
Kylan
Thank you very much & May God Bless you!
hey lisa, i love your tutorials they are easy to follow and simple enough for a novice like myself thank you for taking the time out to provide these free lessons.
God bless.
Deborah from london XX
Thanks for this lesson. It was great to have both the sheet music and the step by step videos. A very thorough teaching method.
Kind Regards
Bevan
a good venture for music learner from talented teacher.pl send some more free lession so that i may play the instrument more effectively.
hari
thank you Lisa, I haven’t been able to practice too much recently because of school but I’m gonna practice more, starting from now
Your lessons are really awesome,thank you once again for the lessons
Another very straight-forwards lesson, you do have the way of presenting the learning is a simple and clear way which helps even me to play some tunes – thanks **
thanks liza thanks for the free lesson ,
and it easiar to learn through your lession.
Lisa
This is awesome.I realy enjoyed it and need more of these easy songs for practice.lets do more of carols now as we are now approaching the season.May God bless you
Thanks a lot Lisa!
it was fun learning it and not that hard!
thanks for everything
Dear Lisa, your lessons are great. I always look forward to your mails.
I like the vedio ’cause you really made it too simple for us
thank you
very cool method, the best i found till now
Hello.
I like your free lesson.
Thank you very much to have your free lesson.
I hope more students could see your site to learn more.
I found it fun to learn your style of teaching piano.
More power!
Dear Lisa Teacher,
You are so great with your teaching methods.. I really enjoying. Waiting more from you… Thanks..
I like this song. I am not playing piano, but I can follow the teaching.
Hi Lisa,
Thank you for the instant play version of the song.. its a blessing.. am going to try rally hard to get a hang of all the new chords……. thanks once again..:)
amazing, its just easy to follow and thank you for the free lessons
I liked it lisa and i cant wait to get home to try it on my piano
thank u alot
The day would be lost without your lessons .I really look forward to the next lesson Iam enjoying my days. thank you
Hi! lisa mam. The lessons that u sent me was too good and i learned them very well. Thank you!!!
thanks lisa mam for the free lessons i think i have learned a lot with ur easy lessons …i just need to say thank u and keep mailing me.
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for keep posting free lessons all the time. I have covered few basic lessions you have sent..and still yet to cover a lot.. I have copied all your email in a spearate folder and then take a look as time permits me.. I really appriciate your efforts keeping everyone updated all the time with new lessons..
Thanks once again.
Regards
Hanny.
Hi..Lisa,
It’s a great site to learn the piano. I am going through the free lessons sent to me. keep it up. You are great.
Thank you very much!
Kind Regards,
Vikram
Hi Lisa, You are a wonderful teacher. You make piano learning so inspirational. Look forward to receiving more from you.
Lisa,
the method of insteucion is really great. Keep it up looking for more popular tunes
Raymond
HHHIII LISA
GOOD TO HAVE U AGAIN.
I HAVE BEEN WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS, THANK U FOR SENDING THEM , AND I CAN ONLY SAY, IY IS NOT THAT EASZY AT ALL
AGAIN THANK YOU
LOOK FORWARD TO ANY MORE, SOMETHING THAT WILL HELP ME.
THANKU
BYE …..
REGARDS………..
OLIMPIO.
thanks so much Lisa,,,i am learning alot !!
This is good Lisa, Keep up the good work. I am willing to play the piano
HI Lisa
you nare a real inspiration.
I went to a some keyboard for worship lessons, and the teacher told me that I need to get some training , and I should just take notes the remaining sessions.Well….you are my training, and I just love it. I love the way that you are so positive and encouraging. I do make a practise of practicing. I love the videos too. Some day I will achieve excellence….may take years but I wll get there.
THANKS and God bless you abundantly.!!!!!!
Love
Fiz
x
This is a wonderful tutorial
Congratulations, you have managed to teach someone who has no previous knowledge of playing the keyboard (me) how to play the keyboard
Thanks
I like this song (the easy version) and i like the website because I learnt a lot of new stuff.(like chords) Lots of my friends know about the site and they always visit it.
Congratulations !!
Your method is really inspiring !
Thank you
Very Nice Lesson, I like ur lesson. Thank you.
Dear lisa,
thank you for the free lesson i love and enjoy it,
for dummy like me it’s best to learn.
hope you will send me more of that.
thank you.
God Bless you.
dear lisa ,
thank you so much for this . lately i soped practicing piano for some reason but with this oportionity i think i will catch up again . wish you all the best .
great, Lisa, u ar such a good teacher..
Thank-you, Lisa!
It will take a while, for me to learn, because of my “tremors”, but I`m determined, yo learn!
It will take sometime for me, because of my tremors
but I`m determined to learn!
Thank-you, Lisa!
Edna Patterson
Thank you very much,
Very usefull ….now is the the time to practice.
Regards.
R.
Thank you for the music sheet. Thank you for all the help you have given me. I haven’t kept in touch, but I’m still here with you.
Dear Lisa
I tried to answer your e.mail but I don’t know why my e.mail couldn’t send successfully. Thank you for this lesson and for every thing. I’ll try to practise every day and I hope I can play the piano well.
Best Regards
Your student
Tuan
easy to learn by your meathom many thanks
Many thanks for the free lesson!
Regards,
Eshani Ranasinghe
Sri lanka
Dear Lisa,
It’s wonderful to hear from you, thank you for the free lesson. The Battle Hymn of the Republic is just a great song to play the day before the 4th of July. My favorite music is Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel. I love to play pop music such as The Wind Beneath My Wings. May we practice O Holy Night, so we can play it well when Christmas arrives!
Many thanks for the free lesson. I would appreciate if you plan to send any further free lesson, kindly remember me as I will really appreciate.
Eshani Ranasinghe
Kundasale
Sri Lanka