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Dynamic Balance for the Spring Equinox
March Free Sheet Music: Playing The Blues
Happy Birthday Mozart! And Free Sheet Music
Announcing: Free Video Piano Lessons!
January Free Sheet Music: Blue Skies
Drumroll please…
December Free Holiday Sheet Music: Carol of the Bells and Rock of Ages
November Free Sheet Music: Erik Satie’s Gymnopedie No. 1
October Free Sheet Music: Autumn from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Sept Free Sheet Music: Bye Bye Blackbird: Easy, Int, & Adv
August Free Sheet Music: Chopin Nocturne (intermediate arrangement) PART 2
How to Play in Swing Rhythm
July Free Sheet Music: Chopin Nocturne (intermediate arrangement)
Exercises to Help You Play Triplets
June Free Sheet Music: Schubert’s Piano Sonata No. 20, Andantino theme
Simple Rhythm Exercise
Free Cinco de Mayo Sheet Music: De Colores
Enchanted April free sheet music
Happy Birthday Bach! (Free Sheet Music & What is Desirable Difficulty?)
Free St. Patrick’s Day Sheet Music!
Giveaway Winners! And some Practice Tips to review in ’22
Giveaway! The Music Remedy books No. 1 and No. 2
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose – Free Sheet Music for Robert Burns Day!
Goals, Intentions, Scheduling, Structure
January Free Sheet Music: Someone to Watch Over Me
Announcing… New Books and Free Holiday Sheet Music!
December Free Sheet Music (Bach’s Jesu) and Announcement!
November Free Sheet Music: We Have Much to Be Thankful For, by Irving Berlin
October Free Sheet Music: Chopin’s Prelude 20
September Free Sheet Music: Maple Leaf Rag
August Free Sheet Music: Moonlight Sonata pt. 2 (transposed to E minor)
July Free Sheet Music: Moonlight Sonata (transposed to E minor!)
June Free Sheet Music: Nocturne from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Exercises in Thirds
May Free Sheet Music: The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring (tra la!)
April Showers Demonstration Video
April Free Sheet Music: April Showers (an easy arrangement and a jazz ballad)
Happy St. Paddy’s Day! (Free Danny Boy sheet music)
March Free Sheet Music: A Jig, A Reel, and a Beautiful Irish Air
February Free Sheet Music: Romance Sans Paroles (by Fauré)
January Free Sheet Music: Look for the Silver Lining
Happy 250th Birthday Beethoven!
December Free Sheet Music: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
November Free Sheet Music: We Gather Together
Free Halloween Sheet Music: Chopin’s Funeral March
October Free Sheet Music: Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21
September Free Sheet Music: Tristesse (Chopin’s Étude Op. 10 No. 3)
August Free Sheet Music: Solace
Bastille Day! Free French Sheet Music to celebrate
July Free Sheet Music: Swan Lake (theme)
Composing – How To Write A Song Or Piece, Part 5 expanding chords using the The Circle Of 5ths
Composing – How to Write a Song or Piece, Part 4, Lyrics and Structure
Composing – How To Write a Song or Piece, Part 3 Melody and Chords
June Free Sheet Music: Chopsticks Duet!
Composing – How To Write A Song Or Piece, Part 2, Melody
Composing – How To Write A Song Or Piece, Part 1, Chords
May Free Sheet Music: What’ll I Do (Irving Berlin)
Composing – first steps (WHO ME?)
April Free Sheet Music: Rhapsody In Blue (complete)
More Pieces from Emma 2020 (Free Sheet Music)
Pieces from Emma 2020 (free sheet music)
Coping With Corona and Free Sheet Music
March Free Sheet Music: Rhapsody In Blue, pt.2
You Made Me Love You and Giveaway!
February Free Sheet Music: Rhapsody in Blue (Pt. 1)
Claire de lune free sheet music reissued!
It Had To Be You (January Free Sheet Music)
When You Lose Your Place In Your Music
O Holy Night & Giveaway Winners!
GIVEAWAY! 12 copies of Upper Hands Piano BOOK 1
November Free Sheet Music: Over The River and Through The Woods
Runnin’ Wild! (Marilyn Monroe) Free Sheet Music
How to Build Chords on the Piano, Part 3 – 6th and 7th chords
October Free Sheet Music: Toccata (from Bach’s Toccata and Fugue)
How to Build Chords at the Piano, Part 2 – Inversions
How to Build Chords on The Piano, Part 1 (and free Autumn sheet music)
September Free Sheet Music: Mozart’s Alla Turca (Intermediate Arrangement)
August Free Sheet Music: Für Elise (simplified) and Take Me Out To The Ball Game
Treble Staff Ledger Lines: Free Worksheets
July Free Sheet Music: Cello Suite No. 1
June Free Sheet Music: Tico Tico
Bass Staff Ledger Lines: Free Worksheets
May Free Sheet Music: The Entertainer
Habits and Routines
April Free Sheet Music: Amazing Grace
Learning Ledger Lines- free worksheets
Free: Waltzing Matilda sheet music for Australia Day!
How to Play Softer With One Hand: 5 Exercises
January Free Sheet Music: Auld Lang Syne
December Free Sheet Music: I Saw Three Ships
KEY UP: Moving hands forward on the keys
November Free Sheet Music: Sonata Pathetique (Adagio cantabile)
October Free Sheet Music: La campanella
September Free Sheet Music: Clair de lune
August Free Sheet Music: Shenandoah
Accountability
July Free Sheet Music: Triumph of Time and Truth plus new WEBSITE and BLOG
June Free Sheet Music: Tchaikovsky’s June
May FREE Sheet Music: Pavane
Practice Small
April Free Sheet Music: Wayfaring Stranger
March FREE Sheet Music: Star of the County Down
Mise en place
Valentine’s Day FREE Sheet Music: Red Is The Rose (intermediate)
Resolve
Performance Anxiety At Piano Lessons?
WHAT??? 12 Ways To Protect Your Ears Against Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
Why Do You Play the Piano?
Piano Players’ Brains
Distractions
Pledge To Play: 10 Minutes A Day
What is a Practice?
Thank You!
PEDAL PASSION | PEDAL PRACTICE
When Should You Be Practicing?
Passion Practice
Upper Hands Piano: Songs of the Seasons, SPRING
The Art of BALANCE at the piano
FAKE BOOKS (Part 2)
FAKE BOOKS (Part 1)
Repeats – Barlines, Dots and Multiple Endings
Piano and Poetry
White Key Improvisation (Improvising Part 3)
Finger painting (Improvising, part 2)
Improvising part 1
Playing Piano for Brain Health
THE BEST WAYS TO PRACTICE using the latest brain research
Sleep On It
7 Moving Pieces (For Sadness)
7 Moving Pieces (For Anger)
7 Moving Pieces (For Happiness)
7 Moving Pieces (For Inspiration)
Musical Endings
Beginnings
7 SMART SNACKS!
Chords
Egoless, part 2
Egoless, part 1
Fear
Playing An Instrument Is Like Fireworks In Your Brain!
Great New Finger Exercise
Lingering on the Fingering
Pledge to Play 10 Minutes A Day
PLEDGE TO PLAY: 10 MINUTES A DAY!
Aging Well in the New Year
Highly Successful People Say Musical Training Impacted Achievements
ROUTINES
Make A List
Your Music Is A Gift
MUSICALITY
Have A Plan!
ADAPTABILITY
ANTI-AGING
SUPER BRAIN
PERFECTION
Playing An Instrument Sharpens The Mind
REPERTOIRE
CULTIVATING INTUITION / PLAYING WITH EYES CLOSED
DETERMINATION
Music Heals Heart Tissue

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