This summer has yielded lots of pieces and arrangements! Some of the pieces are intentionally missing rests, slurs, dynamics, fingering, and/or other musical elements, to allow for pedagogical instruction.
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Summer Stars
This was a nice project of one of my students, Meghann Domond, in Fontana. She played the first two bars, and I encouraged her to turn it into a whole piece. Probably about half of the notes are hers, including the entire first system and the first bar of the next. I then added harmonies while building an ABA-Coda structure for it, and Meghann wrote the coda.
Alley Cats
My original composition for one of my students:
I’ll be adding them to the Works page soon.