Happy Spring Piano Friends! This month I wanted to offer you another uplifting song - one filled with optimism and simplicity. April Showers was my answer. I had previously arranged April Showers for my Songs of the Seasons: SPRING book, but made a few changes for this updated April fav. I also have an arrangement for later intermediate students with some jazzier chords. If you would like me to send my jazzy ballad arrangement to you (free, of course), leave me a comment b

🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀 Happy March piano friends, the month when everyone turns a little bit Irish, raising a glass, singing the songs, and (if you're lucky) playing the piano. I don't know about you, but I need to have some fun to divert from this very dark winter! So instead of offering a soft Irish ballad as I often do, this month I have arranged the rousing Irish pub song, The Wild Rover, also known as No, Nay, Never, one of

Merry Mid-Winter Piano Friends! I hope those of you in the northern hemisphere are staying safe and warm in these perilous times. To see you through the storms I have arranged Robert Schumann's piano piece, Traumerei . Schumann wrote Traumerei which means "dreaming" or "reverie" in 1838. According to the LA Philharmonic , Schumann wrote the piece during a difficult time in his life: " Schumann’s marriage to his beloved Clara would not take place for more than a year and the