Accompanist Challenge Videos and Music

Watch the tutuorial or sample music videos or print the music below to help you complete the Accompanist Challenge

Ghost Playing.

Watch the tutorial video to Learn How to Ghost Play

Lead Sheets

Print some free lead sheets and practice singing along as you play the chords

Free Christmas Lead Sheets from Michael Kravchuk

Free Familiar Tune Lead Sheets from Piano Song Download

Basic Conducting Patterns

Explore Free Printable Duets

Explore the videos of pieces to hear their melodies. The links to duets are piano arrangements that are different versions than the sample videos.

Elementary

Piano Adventures Primer Student Duets

Farmer and the Dell Boogie Duet - Making Music Fun

Bloom Pop Staff Duet Teach Piano Today

Intermediate

Skylore Celtic Duet Teach Piano Today

https://www.8notes.com/piano_duet/sheet_music/

Pirates of the Aegean by David Bruce 8 notes.com

Radetzky March by Strauss - 8 notes.com

Carol of the Bells Duet - 8notes.com

Come Thou Fount 8 notes.com

Aria from Suite in D by Bach - 8notes.com

Adagio from Pathetique Sonata by Beethoven

La Bamba - 8notes.com

Tarantella Napoletana - 8notes.com

More Duets available on https://www.8notes.com/piano_duet/sheet_music/

The Girl and Her Bunny - National Composition Contest Winner!

Being a piano teacher makes me happy! My new student Clara, is just one of the delightful children I get to spend time with each week. It made my day today to hear that she was recently featured on the news for winning the National Let's Play Music Composition Contest.

Click the link to hear her perform her piece and learn the storyline that goes with it!

8 Year Old Earns Top Honors at Music Composition Competition

or  Download her free piece "The Girl and Her Bunny"  and other student composition winners.

How can KPop Golden Help Improve Musicality?

 At my last piano group lesson, several of my students were talking about K-Pop. I'm out of the kid movie loop, so at first I thought, "Is this some new kind of candy?"😂

After the lesson, I explored some of the memorable music from this movie that just sticks in your mind after you hear it.  

Writing Effective Melodies

As I teach composing to students, I often start by emphasizing that using more steps and skips than leaps will create more effective melodies. Hopping around on the keys like a ping pong ball bouncing is not likely to create memorable music!

But music is an art, not a science. "Breaking the rules" sometimes is more effective than you think!