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In contrast the left hand remains in C position throughout and includes a few arpeggiated C and G7 chords.

There is another arrangement in Intermediate Level 2. The hymn recalls the many times when Jewish communities were saved from the people around them. Only the fifth stanza tells of the Maccabean victory that is commemorated by Hanukkah. This tune has a wide range, necessitating one note to be changed in your new arrangement.

The second note, normally sung as a D, has been changed to F-sharp. We hope traditionalists are not offended! Sousa composed this march on Christmas Day, He was on an ocean liner on his way home from a vacation with his wife in Europe and had just learned of the recent death of the manager of the Sousa Band.

He composed the march in his head and committed the notes to paper on arrival in the United States. It was first performed at Willow Grove Park, just outside Philadelphia, on May 14, , and was immediately greeted with enthusiasm.

Its trio is the most famous part of the march [and the one you are receiving this month --GDB]. Piccolo players play the famous obbligato in the first repeat of the trio. See the third video here. Mp3's are now the standard audio format, so you are getting more and more music with this kind of playback. However the heading of this section is a bit exaggerated: not ALL pieces on the site have mp3 playback.

There are still pieces in Intermediate Levels 2, 3 and 4 which have midi playback instead of. Consider mp3 playback a practice tool. Teachers frequently help their students by playing along with them at a lesson. Use these mp3's to bring the same experience to the privacy of your own home. This song reminds me of my Uncle Eugene who loved to hike in the Alps. It expresses the joy of walking up mountains and through valleys, something I myself was lucky enough to experience in Italy and Switzerland.

Contrary to popular belief this German tune is not a folk song. I hope you enjoy your new piano piece! Now if you are playing music from these levels you can listen to a slow version on your smart phone, whether on an iPhone or an Android. Just use your browser to navigate to the your level and click the green circle below the mp3 and the "cute turtle" icons.

Then practice on your keyboard as you listen! Note: This slow. In the US, popular music was distributed-- before the internet, before mp3's, before CD's, before LP's, before 78's, before cylinders--before all those media, pop music was distributed by something called "sheet music. We still have sheet music on this site! There's something that feels like closing a circle here. Anyhow the publishers of this sheet music were part of a business called Tin Pan Alley, a music business as big as any group of record labels would ever become.

Of course it didn't hurt that it was included in the popular musical comedy, "The Defenders. Maybe he meant the oldest round.

Regardless, it can't be denied that it is very old indeed. It was written down in the midth century and the words are in middle English: Sumer is icumen in, Loude sing cuckou!

Groweth seed and bloweth meed, And springth the wode now. Sing cuckou! I have updated the words a bit--hence my title, "Summer is A-Comin' In. Any number of performers can play on the same piano in different octaves. Level 2 in general coaxes the student away from the fixed hand positions in previous levels.

Thus "Home on the Range" challenges the student to move the left hand from "C position" finger 5 on C to "Thumbs Share C" thumb on middle C , while the right hand moves from "C position" thumb on C to the keys just to the left thumb on B.

As teachers can testify, requiring the hand to wander around like this makes reading challenging for students who depend on a certain finger belonging to a certain key. If I wanted to be cute I would relate the hands wandering around the keyboard to the cowboys wandering around the open range--but I think I'll pass :- Thanks for visiting and enjoy your new piece!

Freda Bedi, Lahore What a remarkable woman! Born in England, Freda Bedi married an Indian and spent most of her adult life on the subcontinent. She was active in India's freedom movement and was the first British woman to serve a six-month internment in Lahore jail. She went on to work with Tibetan refugees and converted to Buddhism.

In , she became the first European woman to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. Here's the origin of the rhymes in this month's music: When Bedi's first son Ranga was a baby, she realized that she did not know any rhymes for him which incorporated his surroundings, activities and festivals. So she simply set about writing her own. She later wrote to her son, "These rhymes grew up with you, Ranga, and they grew out of you, because it was sometimes the little words you said, and the nonsense songs you sang, that quickened something in me and gave them birth.

A boy rides behind buffalo who lift water out of a well to irrigate his crops. The buffalo go around and around the well turning what is called a Persian wheel. Each little bucket on the wheel scoops up some water from the well and then dumps it down into an irrigation ditch. A Persian wheel. Little Ranga loved to ride in the bullock cart!

After the train carrying his family arrived at the station in his home town, the luggage would be placed on the cart. Ranga would sit on the bags and trunks inside the bullock cart, bouncing up and down all the way home. A wild Irish jig, this fiddle tune is to be played quickly and enthusiastically. If these chords are not yet second nature to you in the keys of C, D, F and G, and if you enjoy the challenge of speed and a few out-of-position notes, then this new piece is for you.

Your second free piece this month is also from Ireland. In fact it has become the unofficial anthem of Ireland's capital city, Dublin. The words tell the story of poor Molly Malone, a young woman hawking her cockles and mussels from her wheelbarrow.

The last verse says that her ghost still roams the streets of Dublin crying, "Cockles and muscles alive, alive oh. Now you can quickly find a song from the country you happen to be interested in.

Each country's songs are arranged according to skill level, so you don't have to wade through an alphabetical list to find just the right one for you or your students.

Coming soon will be a list of songs by religion which will include those for relitious holidays. Accordingly these have not been included in the national list you get this month. Hispanic songs are shared by so many countries that for now they are all listed under Mexico. Use this index frequently to get a feel for cultures around the world!

Take advantage of a technical glitch! There are some technical difficulties with payments for my original pieces. Fixing the problem will take a few weeks, maybe a month I hope not 2! This version of "A Sailor Went to Sea" lets you share the fun with an easy duet part. Your new piece is short and easily memorized for friends to play and sing together. Teachers, assign this to siblings and friends, or switch off parts between yourself and your students.

To make the piece longer, repeat it taking turns soloing, changing octaves and dynamics. Be creative, have fun and have a Happy, Happy New Year! The opera with its powerful chorus established Verdi as a major composer in 19th-century Italy. Psalm is also the inspiration for the painting to the left and the round, "By the Waters of Babylon" which concludes, "we lay down and wept for the Zion. This chorus has been proposed several times to be the Italian National Anthem, and the line, "O mia patria" Oh my fatherland resonates deeply with Italians.

This site was taken down for a while following the recent US election. It was important that everybody take a break from business as usual to reflect on the outcome. We must always remember that there are people less fortunate than us. For some of them access to a piano or keyboard or piano music are irrelevant luxuries. This site was down to remind us that: It is more important to be kind than to play the piano It is more important to understand people who differ from us than it is to play the piano It is more important to help others who are in need than it is to play the piano.

If you see powerful people making statements or even laws that seem to harm people of a certain race or religion, you need to think very carefully. Learn about these people. Maybe you could play the songs they sing which are on this site. My family was forced to leave their home because of laws like these. That should never happen again, and we should be kind to people who were forced to leave their homes because of violence or because they were too poor.

In any case it seems clear that, whatever the prevalent meaning is now, stealing away to Jesus was originally a metaphor for slaves stealing away to freedom. Your thumbs will share middle C in this piece, but unlike "thumbs share C" position finger 2 will be on E not D , 3 will be on F not E and so on. It may take some practice for your third finger to refrain from playing its note when your eyes see an E on the staff. In the first verse the singer exclaims, "In colors the fields are dressed in the spring.

In colors are the little birds that come from outside. In colors is the rainbow that we see shining. Wikipedia also explains, "Today, in addition to being used as the unofficial anthem of the Farm Worker Movement and as an inspirational song in Cursillo workshops [retreats of a Christian religious movement], the song is often taught in schools in the United States as an example of a common Mexican folk song.

Our guest composer, Cori Jackson writes, "My young students always ask for Halloween music and there just aren't many songs out there, so I started making a few of my own. Thank you Cori! A cute twenty-first century android tries to keep up with the gang, all portrayed in a mid-twentieth century style of music. Unexpected sharps and flats in the melody suggest other-worldly obstacles for the struggling robot to contend with.

Learn yet another DeBenedetti original! This is the same music you have come to know and love now displayed with the colors you have found so useful. What a great piece for teaching balance! The steady eighth note accompaniment is all light blue soft while the melody has colors indicating louder dynamics and shading. As with all color coded pieces, print with the best quality or photo quality to see the gradations in color.

Remember this tune during some silly antics in old cartoons? After all, when you arrive at the top of the C major scale you're actually in F position, the one difference being that the C scale has no B-flats while pieces in F position usually do have B-flats. If you want to hear more in the music you love, "Hear That Music! This unique flash card app plays real music performed by live musicians and quizzes you on the aural identification of musical concepts in the excerpt: What interval was that at the end of the phrase?

What scale degree was the last note? What meter is the excerpt in? No sterile isolated tones. No chords divorced from their musical phrases. Hear that Music! This Yom Kippur song is for you to sing and play with the children in your family and synagogue.

It refers to feelings of guilt and forgiveness, feelings which are at once serious but natural and appropriate for young children. Central to the words is the hope that the child will "get a new chance this year. Now if you are beyond primer level see the arrangement described below you can still enjoy playing this exciting piece.

You will never leave C position though your hands will also be moving up to an A and down to a B. It's also a bit longer than the Primer Level version. For additional background about this song, see the blurb below. Originally a traditional dance from the Mexican state of Veracruz, this music became wildly popular in when it was recorded by Richie Valens. Valens was proud of his Mexican heritage and wanted to share his music with the rest of the world.

It is the only song on the list sung in a language other than English. In addition wedding couples often use their footwork to tie a symbolic bow with their feet. See both Richie Valens' version from a movie by the same name, and the traditional dance in these videos. Right before Clementi's famous first sonatina of Opus 36 you will find a new piece explaining the mysteries of sonata form. In "It's Sonata Form Fun" colors are used to identify the four large divisions of sonata form including the Coda and an extra bonus page is provided illustrating the subdivisions.

My original piece is designed to be the standard textbook sonata form, knowing full well that most sonata forms in the literature have variations. Compare this piece to the first movement of the Clementi. Can you find the sectional divisions in this piece as well? Balkan music is full of "irregular" meters. While counting to 7 may at first be helpful, eventually it is best to count three beats to the measure, with beat 1 lasting three eighth notes and beats 2 and 3 each lasting two eighth notes.

The irregular length of these beats reinforces the feeling that beat 1 is heavier or stronger than other beats, whatever their length. Listen to the rendition in the video to the right to get a feel for this meter. You can also find this video on YouTube. Just search for "Green Valley Lesnoto. What a fun song for kids! Each time you repeat it, play the first part softer and the last part louder. The score suggests three times, but it can be repeated as many times as you want.

If you do many repetitions, the first part can eventually be played by lightly tapping the keys with no sound at all while the last part can be played super-duper loud--try also playing the end an octave or two lower! This month your free sheet music adds to your already numerous songs from outside the United States. Thanks again to mamalisa. Some serious note reading is needed here, so make sure you or your students know the notes on the staff. Play the version in F, play the version in G or play them both!

Listen to this beautiful lullaby with its long improvisatory introduction. The actual tune as transcribed in your sheet music begins at This piece is your perfect introduction to 16th note semiquaver rhythms. With easy steady octaves in the left hand, the right hand can concentrate on the frequent two-sixteenth-eighth rhythms, and the one instance of one-eighth-two-sixteenths.

Here's a fun way to learn these rhythms! Each rhythm on the right has a word under it. Chanting these words for the first two measures of this piece results in naming these pies: "Chocolate pie, pumpkin pie, Chocolate pumpkin, pumpkin pie. Folk song or written by a known composer?

Apparently "The Bluebells of Scotland" is both: "The song Originally named The Blue Bell of Scotland a tangential reference to an inn mentioned in the song it was quickly adopted into the folk tradition and rechristened after the Scottish flower.

Written in the key of F, the right hand mostly plays outside of what we like to call F position. It's great practice for reading notes! Make sure you review the names of the notes in treble clef! Ho aggiunto parole in inglese e in italiano in due pagine. In questo duetto, cantato da Don Giovanni e la contadina Zerlina, il signore Don Giovanni riesce a far Zerlina seguirlo alla sua villa.

Thank you, Claudio, for this beautiful and simple arrangement. I have added words in English and Italian in two separate. In this duet, sung by Don Giovanni and the peasant girl Zerlina, the noble Don Giovanni succeeds in making Zerlina follow him to his villa. Zerlina, already engaged to Masetto, can't remain faithful to her fiancee while this Don is singing so sincerely and so well to her.

This old English song first made its appearance in print in Over the years many words have been put to the tune, but they all involve a frog proposing marriage to a mouse who must in turn ask her Uncle Rat's consent or "she would not marry the president". As part of my old "SingAlong" collection you also get guitar chords and quite a few verses in all!

Enjoy learning this song and playing and singing it with friends! Also, you can now download mp3 audio files for all pieces in Level 3A , including slow playback, and hands separately. You can get announcements like this from the facebook group.

I love the way you can hear Jacob climbing higher and higher as this song ascends in pitch. Reinforce Jacob's climb by playing the first part--with low notes--softly, and play the middle part--with high notes--loudly. I have two videos of this song. Listen to how different they are. This Christmas standard is a thrilling piece of music no matter how many times you hear it. The loud and proud opening statement of the theme, the contrast between full four part harmony and the single line singing "For the Lord God omnipotent If you watch the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing "Hallelujah" you will notice that the soloists and audience stand up as it begins.

The story behind this custom is that when the King of England first heard it, he felt the presence of God so strongly that he had to stand, just as a royal subject would be expected to stand in front of his sovereign. Then when the audience saw the king rise, they were all compelled to rise as well, out of respect for their own king. The second page of this version pops out with notes of contrasting colors as they reflect extremes in dynamics.

This page is a variation of the tune which had been presented more traditionally on page one with no contrasting colors. Enjoy this new color coded version of an ever-popular song. The judge has ruled "Happy Birthday to You" is in the public domain!

Now you can download three arrangements at three different levels from this site. Finally all legal, and all brought to you here before any of the traditional publishing houses can get them to the stores.

Teachers, make a habit of assigning these versions every time a student's birthday rolls around. They'll love playing it! A song strongly identified with Scotland, this nostalgic tune tells of a time when two lovers would meet on the banks of lovely Loch or Lake Lomond. Though the narrator and his comrade take the high and low roads back to Scotland, he knows all too well that he will never see his love again.

Loch Lomond itself is a lake in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park between the lowlands of Central Scotland and the Highlands, and it is just as beautiful now as it was when the song was first sung. Like my "Sonatina Piccolina" in Level 1C , this gavotte will appeal to beginners who want to play serious classical and baroque music, but have no sheet music appropriate to their level.

A gavotte is a French dance used commonly in Bach's suites. Look for it in Keyboard Classics even though it's newly composed. Now that all pieces pieces have color coded dynamics in Intermediate Level 1 and in Keyboard Classics, I am beginning to do color coding in Level 4.

Click the green dot in column 2 under this symbol in Level 4C: Write your comments at the facebook group. So why use a key signature with a C sharp in it when C's are consistently made natural? Good question! Some arrangers in fact would notate this piece, with the very same pitches, with just one sharp, F, in the key signature. The sticky point here is that "Old Joe Clark" does not use a regular scale.

Clearly D's are important here--the first and last chords are D and the last note of the melody is D. But a D scale normally has a C-sharp, and this piece just as clearly does not. Actually "Old Joe Clark" is in what is called the "Mixolydian mode," a fancy term for a major scale with the seventh note in this case C-sharp lowered by a half-step in the case to C-natural.

So I could have used a key signature of F-sharp only, but there is also something to be said for always associating one sharp with G as the key note and two sharps with D as the key note. With a piece at this level piece I thought it was important to reinforce those associations. So that's what I did. There you go. Oh yeah! It's also a lot of fun to play! My music theory nerd alter-ego kind of took over there.

Sorry :- Write your comments at the facebook group. With this month's addition of color coded dynamics in "For Michelle" by Ken Allen and "Minuet in G minor" from the notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach, all the pieces in Intermediate Level 1 are available with colored notes. If you add the pieces in Keyboard Classics , there are now a grand total of 31 pieces with colorful reminders of the importance of dynamics.

If you as a teacher agree that many students at this ability level need cues which are more obvious that the traditional "mp", "ff" "cresc. Remember to set your printer quality to "best" or "photo. To the right Dr. Alan Huckleberry of The University of Iowa plays the second movement of this piece.

I am always looking for easy Sonatinas and I think I have found a great sounding one here. This piece is also available with color coded dynamics, as are almost all pieces in Intermediate Level 1 Write your comments at the facebook group. Now you can download "Arctic Nights" for free if you choose the version with color coded dynamics. Although I ask you to pay for most of my original pieces, there are a few exceptions.

I decided to offer this one for free because I am so excited about the idea of color coded dynamics. By the way, if any teachers see positive results among their students about their use of dynamics with my color coded pieces, please tell us. These words seem to be everywhere that new parents might look. Lion G I-dle. Fancy Twice. Shine Pentagon. Crown TXT.

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ON Bts. Your thumb will play A again, but your other fingers will play different notes this time: move your middle finger to the D above A and your ring finger to the F above D. Repeat this as above. Practice again! Repeat steps over and over again until you can play it without messing up. Listen to a recording of the song and try to match your speed and style to Wilson's piano line.

It may take a while to get this step completely right, but be persistent - the results are worth it! One sure-fire way to get your playing up to speed is to practice with a metronome, which are available for cheap at almost every music store.

Metronomes can count the beat for you, making it easier to keep your playing in time. You can even set your metronome to a slow tempo and slowly increase it to gradually increase your playing speed. Put your hard work to use! Put both your right and left hands on the keyboard and play together. Play each part at the same speed - though your right hand is playing more notes than your left hand, both hands should change position at the same time every four beats.

With luck, you'll sound just like the recording! If you're an absolute beginner, the intro to this song will probably take more than just one day to perfect. Keep at it! Set aside time each day to practice, and within about 5 days, you should see serious improvement!

Method 2. Learn the chords to the intro. These four chords simply repeat over and over in a 4-bar line, with each chord receiving four beats. Basically, each of these chords is played as a whole note at a tempo of about BPM.

Practice this simple chord sequence until you have it memorized. It shouldn't take too long. Since the intro part to this song is played the same as the verse, you can even sing over it! Play the root notes of the chords with your left hand. In the intro, Dan Wilson doesn't ever play the entire chord at once. Rather, he plays single notes with his left hand and plays arpeggios with his right hand.

To learn the intro, first practice simply playing the root notes of the chords with your left hand. At a tempo of BPM, play each note for four beats in other words, play it as a whole note.

As a reminder, the root notes of the chords are: A, G , F , and D. Start two A's below Middle C. When you're confident with this bass line, you don't simply have to play each note as a whole note. Make subtle changes in the rhythm to spice up your playing.

For example, try holding each root note for three beats, then hitting the note again on beat "four" of each measure. Arpeggiate the chords with your right hand. With your right hand, practice "arpeggiating" each of the chords in the chord sequence you memorized in step 1 of this section. Arpeggiating something simply means playing the tones in the chord as separate notes, not all together at once.

However, for the F m chord, you'll play the root, fifth, octave, and fifth, and for the D chord, you'll play the fifth, root, third, and root - in other words, you'll play like the first too chords, but with the notes in a different order. Play this sequence 4 times per measure in other words, each note should be a sixteenth note at about BPM. Put it all together. Now, you've learned the parts for both of your hands.

Next, practice playing both of these parts simultaneously. Unless you're already an experienced player, it may be difficult for you to play the parts together at full speed at first - this is O. Don't be afraid to begin at half-time and slowly increase the tempo until you can play the intro comfortably at about BPM. Spice up your performance. One of the things that makes the intro to "Someone Like You" so beautiful is that Wilson plays it with dynamics. This means that he doesn't play every note exactly the same, like a robot.

Instead, some notes are played louder than others and some notes are played quieter than others. In the intro to this song, the dynamics are pretty subtle, but if you listen to the record, you can still hear them. Listen for how Wilson lingers on certain notes and plays certain note a little louder than others. These small, barely-noticeable changes take the music from ordinary to beautiful.