This weekend, my students and I are preparing to play Christmas pieces at a local church’s “Come To The Stable” event. I reserved an hour on Thursday and Saturday when we are going to play (I will fill whatever time my students don’t use). Our music will serve as the background music as people come [...]
I am preparing to pass out Christmas music to my students to this week! It still seems early to me, but my students have a performance opportunity in early December — so I thought we better get rolling on that Christmas music! I’ve updated my post from two years ago “List of Free Christmas Arrangements [...]
Elena Cobb is a piano teacher and composer in the UK (but originally from Russia) who writes music in various popular musical styles, including blues, Latin, and jazz. She has music books available intended for both young students and intermediate to advanced students. You can read more about Elena’s teaching approach and goals behind her [...]
Remember back when I did a giveaway in March for this sheet music necklace? Some of you asked about how I made those necklaces. Well, I got the idea from a photo I saw on pinterest a long time ago. I was planning to make a nice tutorial post about how to do it, but now [...]
I forgot to put up the week’s new Forum Q&A post yesterday, so here it is a day late! Sorry about that…I think the term paper for my music history class is draining all my brain cells. =D It was so fun to read the variety of approaches teachers use when it comes to summer [...]
I finally got around to taking a picture of the free sheet music I took home from the MTNA conference. A few books are not pictured because I already took them with me to my office on campus, including the RCM 2008 Syllabus and RCM Teacher Handbook. I added everything up, and I took home [...]
After posting about the sheet music ornament star last week, I was inspired to dig around the web for other music-related crafts! There are tons of ways to recycle old sheet music (which you can often find at thrift stores, garage sales, auctions, and antique stores). Here’s a sampling of what I found! All links [...]
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.
The Links page here at colorinmypiano.com has been updated! I’ve created a new category devoted to sites with free sheet music, preferably for piano. My personal favorite: IMSLP / The Petruccit Library This site contains TONS of sheet music pdfs of the great classical works! Just this week, for example, I was looking to round [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Joy is a pianist and teacher in Ohio with great passion for helping students experience the wonders of music making!
