For intermediate students who are learning more about chords and/or improvisation: Away in a Manger Lead Sheet

I strongly believe that kids should be taught to improvise shortly after they can play chords with no problem. I can’t remember being taught any improvisational teaching, even though I had a knack and drive to do so when I first started accompanying my high school choir. I want to make sure none of my […]

This arrangement was a massive project and is not for those weak on the keys! Apparently the piece goes: verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus w/ vars.-½ bridge-chorus w/ vars. Or in more formal musical academia: ABABCB’C’B” Happy Note I have yet to play a single note of it on the piano, so I may eventually try it and revise […]

I was commissioned by the parent of a couple of students and another student to reduce a couple of pieces, and here they are (and now also on Works). The first was particularly fun: Precious Lord, Take My Hand Brahms’ Waltz Op. 39 No. 15