Tag Archives: arrangements

Christmas Rhythm Learning Moments

By joy (admin) | Published: 28 November 2011

As I’m sure is currently the case with many of you, my students are working on Christmas pieces along with their usual assignments.  As usual, a few of them have encountered rhythmic “simplifications” in their arrangements (Away in a Manger and Go Tell it on the Mountain come to mind).  After pointing it out the [...]

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Q&A Forum | Rhythmic “Simplification” in Arrangements of Familiar Tunes

By joy (admin) | Published: 15 March 2011

For last week’s Forum Q&A, I broached a few questions about memorization and many of you left comments regarding whether or not to require memorization for performances within your studio — but not many of you addressed my initial question about whether you consider the skill of memorization is essential to piano playing (i.e., do [...]

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List of Free Christmas Music Arrangements on the Web

By joy (admin) | Published: 9 November 2010

Christmas is on the way, whether you are ready or not! My students are already starting to ask about Christmas music, so I’m doing some digging on the web to find places to print easy Christmas arrangements for free. Read this post to check out the list I’ve compiled.

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Piano transcription from the Pixar movie “Up” soundtrack

By joy (admin) | Published: 3 May 2010

I recently had a student ask if she could learn to play some of the music from Pixar movie “Up” soundtrack.  (Have you seen this movie?  It’s a super cute family movie!  Keep a box of tissues nearby.)  I get pretty excited when I have student who requests to learn a piece of music, and [...]

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My Favs: Jim Brickman solo piano music

By joy (admin) | Published: 20 October 2009

In a post last week, I mentioned Jim Brickman — composer of new age solo piano music (as well as some pop music with vocals).  His music is great to play when you are stressed out and just want to play something relaxing that doesn’t require as much concentration as classical music.  =D  I thought [...]

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Free piano arrangements of anime music

By joy (admin) | Published: 16 October 2009
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I recently received a new transfer adult student.  She’s an excellent sight-reader and a fun person to be around!  She has a great interest in anime (for those of you not familiar with anime [AH-nee-may], it is “a style of animation developed in Japan,” according to Answers.com).  Shehas been teaching me quite a bit about anime [...]

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Added: 4 New easy Christmas Arrangements

By joy (admin) | Published: 1 October 2009

I know, I know, it’s not even Thanksgiving yet, and I’m already talking about Christmas!  But since I’ve been updating my Printables page recently anyway, I went ahead and put up some easy Christmas piano arrangments too: Jingle Bells Joy To The World O Come All Ye Faithful We Wish You A Merry Christmas (See [...]

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Free Sheet Music @ pianostreet.com

By joy (admin) | Published: 22 September 2009

Free sheet music is always a good thing, right?  :] By signing up for a free Silver membership over at pianostreet.com, you’ll have access to free pdfs of classical music scores, including: Bach – 15 Inventions Beethoven – 32 Sonatas Burgmuller – 3 pieces from 25 Easy and Progressive Studies Schumann – Traumerei Tchaikovsky – [...]

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Resources @ makingmusicfun.net

By joy (admin) | Published: 18 September 2009

Have you seen makingmusicfun.net yet?  This site is full of free resources for both teachers and students.  All the materials available at Making Music Fun have super-cute graphics in an “under the sea” theme. For teachers: Sheet music (both arranged and unarranged, organized by level) Composer worksheets Music achievement certificates Practice charts Manuscript paper Intervals [...]

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A Closer Look at MuseScore: FREE music notation software

By joy (admin) | Published: 31 August 2009

Move over, Finale and Sibelius!  There’s somebody new in town.  MuseScore is a music notation software available FREE online for anyone to download.  After doing a brief test drive last spring (mentioned here), I decided to take a closer look now that it’s available for Mac users. I’ve been a faithful Finale user since 2005, [...]

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MuseScore: free music notation software

By joy (admin) | Published: 28 August 2009

Have you heard about the new free music notation software called MuseScore?  I have heard nothing but favorable reviews about it thus far.  Personally, I do not currently have a great need for it, since I use Finale software at college.  But this may very well be a great resource for teachers who do not [...]

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Free Easy Piano Arrangements for Students

By joy (admin) | Published: 16 August 2009

Have you ever had a student who has a particular interest for learning familiar tunes?  The internet is becoming a wonderful resource for easy piano arrangements – which you can commonly download and print for free.  One site in particular that I have turned to frequently for my students is a site called G Music [...]

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