One of my young beginner piano students loves the worship song Build My Life by Housefires and wanted to learn how to play it on the piano. Unfortunately, there wasn’t anything even remotely close to his playing level, so over my Christmas break, I decided to write a simplified arrangement that he can easily read […]
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Happy New Year!
My husband has pointed out that one of my apparent missions in life is to create a cozy reading nook in every room of the house. I don’t deny that one of my greatest delights is curling up with a warm blanket and a cup of hot tea to lose myself in the pages of […]
Year In Review – 2022
One of the things I started doing almost a decade ago is keeping a document titled 2022 Year in Review (or whatever the year happens to be). I include a number of categories that are meaningful to me and then I update it throughout the year. It’s fascinating to pull up previous years and be […]
New Elementary Piano Solo of Infant Holy Infant Lowly
I have an older beginning piano student who plays beautifully but still struggles with music reading. She loves Christmas music, so I wanted to give her an arrangement to learn that would be easy and motivating to learn and play. This arrangement of Infant Holy, Infant Lowly is composed to sound sophisticated and sweet. It […]
New Beginner Piano Arrangement of O Come Little Children
Preparations for Christmas continue! I’ve been having fun putting together special arrangements of familiar Christmas songs for my students to learn this year. The latest project is a rendition of O Come, Little Children arranged for a young student in Piano Safari Level 1. He is doing so well learning to read music on the […]
New We Three Kings Beginner Piano Sheet Music
It’s hard to believe, but Christmas is just around the corner! Our studio enjoys participating in a local WinterFest arts fair at the beginning of December where students have the opportunity to provide background music for the hundreds of shoppers and vendors participating in the occasion. It’s a fabulous experience that is less intimidating than […]