Did these last night; we’ll see how they turn out for their corresponding students, since I typically write my arrangements from start to finish without sound and without playing them on any keyboard. There’s no magic to acquiring the perfect mental pitch reproduction that allows correspondingly fast writing—just lots of repetition and practice with increasingly […]
Late Intermediate: A Little Jaunt Early Intermediate: Ode to Joy
For intermediate-level piano students: Ding, Dong! Merrily on High
In this audience-recorded video from last week, stellar conductor Kristen Pickering was unfortunately never recorded, just to my right! I’m awaiting a more visually holistic video from the school’s video crew itself. Here’s also a new intermediate arrangement: Shall We Gather At the River? (19th-century American hymn: freestyle parts)