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Tag Archives: sheet music
Organizing your Music Books
How do your organize your library of music books? About a month ago, I purchased a new bookshelf (see photo) for my music, because most of my books were still in boxes with no place to go since our move to our new apartment. In just a few hours, I managed to re-organize all my [...]
Posted in Ideas, Improving as a Teacher, Repertoire/Method Books, Topics in Teaching Piano, What I'm Up To Also tagged music, music library, piano teaching, teachers Leave a comment
Best Free Sheet Music Sites
You can never have too much free music! Head on over to musictechtips.wordpress.com and check out this post: 11 Best Free Sheet Music Sites. It is an excellent list of sites that contain free pdfs of sheet music. A word of caution: not all free sheet music online is copyright free. Always be careful to observe [...]
Posted in Repertoire/Method Books, Resources / Links, Topics in Teaching Piano Also tagged free, music, piano Leave a comment
Free piano arrangements of anime music
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 [...]
Posted in Advanced Level, By Student's Level, My Students, Repertoire/Method Books, Resources / Links Also tagged anime, arrangement Leave a comment
Added: 4 New easy Christmas Arrangements
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 [...]
Posted in Beginners/Elementary Level, By Student's Level Also tagged arrangements, Christmas, piano Leave a comment
Free Sheet Music @ pianostreet.com
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 – [...]
Posted in Advanced Level, By Student's Level, Intermediate Level, Repertoire/Method Books, Resources / Links, Topics in Teaching Piano Also tagged arrangements, classical, free, music, printables 1 Comment
Earn 8% when you order sheet music
Sheet Music Plus has begun a new promotional program for music teachers to earn 8% back in rebates when they or their students order from SheetMusicPlus.com. I was thrilled to hear about this program last week, because I just so happened to need a few music books! Other perks: $2.99 budget shipping. Going on [...]
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Free Easy Piano Arrangements for Students
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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