This was nearly about “Self-Employment Without Needing Unemployment”, because I have been troubled by how many musicians and music teachers I have seen say that they will need to cut back on food or may be homeless because of the Covid-19 shutdowns. They were also unusually excited at the thought …
This easy piano arrangement is shared by our kind friend Lubor Horák for non-commercial use. Hernando’s Hideaway, composed by Jerry Ross and lyrics by Richard Adler, is from a musical called The Pajama Game from 1954. This arrangement is in C major, as appropriate for any easy piano arrangement. This …
During these days of social distancing, even those who usually try to avoid giving remote lessons now do so. I should know, because I am one of them! Below is the room set-up I use when teaching the piano remotely. General Set-Up To set-up for a remote lesson, you will …
The Moving Cloud is a traditional Irish reel. This version is in G major, fingered for harp, and has chords for use as a lead sheet. This song is more modern than what I would usually call “traditional” music because this was composed in the 1900s! It is disputed whether …
Thomas Walsh’s Inis Sear— my harp teacher seemed to be pronouncing it as /ih-nih SHEER/— is a traditional harp piece that my harp instructor had me prepare as one of my eight slow airs for a Mid-Atlantic Regional Fleadh. This is in the key of G major. The sheet music …
Camille Saint-Saëns’ The Swan, also known as Le cygne (Lowercase here deliberate.), is a staple of the cellist’s repertoire but is also so immensely popular that it has been modified and played on many other instruments, including the theremin. This was transposed from the original key of G to the …
The Three Ravens, which happens to be both Child Ballad #26 and Roud #5, is a Traditional English Folk Song. It was first published in 1611 in Melismata by Thomas Ravenscroft (click here for the rather good original SATB version), but the ballad is probably older. This is scored in …
The sheet music offered here is a piano arrangement of “A Thousand Years”, a song featured in the movie The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and composed by Christina Perri and David Hodges. This version is arranged for simple piano and contains the lyrics to help one follow where one …
This is sheet music for an excerpt from Paruvam Vana Jallai, composed by A. R. Rahman, from the movie Roja, an Indian Tamil-language film. It is arranged for the violin. To download free sheet music for an excerpt from Paruvam Vana Jallai of Roja arranged for violin as a .pdf, please …
Today, I was on a call with TD Bank’s Card Services. During the call, TD Card Services declined to make a record of my negative feedback about their inaccurate error message. It all began when I tried to log into their website, tdcardservices.com and received a message saying: “Sorry! We …
