Chords

Aging With Grace notes

Sep 1, 2022

Sept Free Sheet Music: Bye Bye Blackbird: Easy, Int, & Adv

Happy September Piano Friends! Lately I have been posting a lot of classical sheet music, so today I thought I would offer something...

Jan 1, 2022

January Free Sheet Music: Someone to Watch Over Me

Happy New Year Friends! I always enjoy posting free sheet music for you at the beginning of each month, but on January 1st it’s...

Apr 1, 2021

April Free Sheet Music: April Showers (an easy arrangement and a jazz ballad)

Happy April! Today I have arranged April Showers as a slow jazz ballad, because it seems to encompass the wistful sentiment of the day,...

Jun 17, 2020

Composing – How To Write A Song Or Piece, Part 5 expanding chords using the The Circle Of 5ths

To purchase this poster click here You may have heard of the phrase, The Circle of 5ths. It’s a useful tool for musicians to understand,...

Jun 8, 2020

Composing – How To Write a Song or Piece, Part 3 Melody and Chords

When scoring a film I am constrained not only by the emotion and action of the scene, but also by its length, which could be anywhere...

May 1, 2020

May Free Sheet Music: What’ll I Do (Irving Berlin)

I first fell in love with Irving Berlin’s What’ll I Do when I heard Alison Krauss sing it in the 2003 movie Mona Lisa Smile starring...

Mar 31, 2020

April Free Sheet Music: Rhapsody In Blue (complete)

Forget-me-not! Since most of us are confined to our homes with more time to play the piano, I decided to post the complete Rhapsody in...

Sep 25, 2019

How to Build Chords at the Piano, Part 2 – Inversions

In my post How to Build Chords at the Piano, Part 1, I demonstrated how to build Triads (3-note chords) using formulas. Once you have...

Sep 19, 2019

How to Build Chords on The Piano, Part 1 (and free Autumn sheet music)

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