“Grand.” “Enjoyable.” “Really neat piece.” “I loved it!” Those are the descriptions and exclamations that I heard from students after one week of them playing Kori Buchanan’s excellent piano compositions! Kori has been a longtime follower of Music Matters Blog and contacted me recently about reviewing some of her piano compositions. I thought it would […]
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And the Winner is…
#2 – Kathleen You will receive a free copy of Nathan Holder’s I Wish I Didn’t Quit: Music Lessons. Congrats! Thanks to everyone who participated in the giveaway. Stay tuned for another one coming soon!
Review and Giveaway of I Wish I Didn’t Quit: Music Lessons
With bookend stories about the fictitious piano student Olivia in his new book, I Wish I Didn’t Quit: Music Lessons, author Nathan Holder paints a picture first of an all-too familiar scenario and later an ideal scenario when it comes to studying music. Himself a member of the “I-wish-I-didn’t-quit” statistic, Holder writes from a collection […]
And the Winners Are
The winners of the free pdf of Jerald Simon’s new book, Left Hand Patterns, are: 40 – Deborah 34 – Jill 26 – Jennifer 5 – Diana 32 – Laurie 23 – Cynthia 13 – Catherine 9 – Alice 22 – Marie 18 – Rebecca The winner of the spiral bound hard copy is: 28 […]
New Piano Sheet Music for I’d Rather Have Jesus
It only took me about 5 and a half years, but the piano sheet music is finally done and available for the original arrangement of I’d Rather Have Jesus. I posted the video of it in 2013: And I’ve been procrastinating notating and publishing it ever since. 🙂 But after many hours of work over […]
Review and Giveaway of 100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know
One of the most valuable skills any pianist can learn is to play popular tunes by ear and easily play them with an appropriate accompaniment. If you’ve ever found yourself blank when trying to think of a new melody to play or out of ideas for a left hand accompaniment, this is the book for […]
