Exercises to Help You Play Triplets
Rhythm is one of the most difficult music skills to teach and to learn. Last month I posted an exercise to help you keep your eighth...
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Gaili Schoen
Jan 22, 2022
Goals, Intentions, Scheduling, Structure
We know that setting goals can be an effective way to focus our practice time. In the past I have held “Pledge to Play: 10 Minutes A Day”...
Gaili Schoen
Jun 1, 2021
June Free Sheet Music: Nocturne from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
📷 by David Holifield Felix Mendelssohn wrote his Overture (Op. 21) for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1826 when he was just...
Gaili Schoen
May 22, 2021
Exercises in Thirds
One of the greatest challenges to us piano players is playing our 3, 4 and 5 fingers consecutively. Because of the way tendons are...
Gaili Schoen
Jan 31, 2021
February Free Sheet Music: Romance Sans Paroles (by Fauré)
📷 by David Brooke Martin For the last year I have been researching calming, melodic pieces, and Gabriel Fauré’s Romance Sans Paroles...
Gaili Schoen
Jan 2, 2021
January Free Sheet Music: Look for the Silver Lining
Happy New Year Friends! I hope this finds you well, and feeling at least somewhat optimistic about 2021. Last year was admittedly...
Gaili Schoen
Dec 1, 2020
December Free Sheet Music: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
@HudsonHintz One of my favorite holiday rituals is listening to Tchaikovsky’s enchanting Nutcracker Suite. Though we won’t be able to...
Gaili Schoen
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,...
Gaili Schoen
May 18, 2020
Composing – How To Write A Song Or Piece, Part 1, Chords
I hope you have been getting your creative juices flowing after spending some time improvising on your instrument. If you haven’t yet...
Gaili Schoen
Oct 27, 2019
Runnin’ Wild! (Marilyn Monroe) Free Sheet Music
In Upper Hands Piano: BOOK 2 the song Runnin’ Wild (from the film, Some Like It Hot) appears on p. 10 as a “lead sheet” ( just a melody...
Gaili Schoen
Jul 26, 2019
Treble Staff Ledger Lines: Free Worksheets
©Alexey Arkhipov Dreamstime.com A couple of month ago I posted worksheets for learning bass ledger lines, and this month I wanted to...
Gaili Schoen
May 23, 2019
Bass Staff Ledger Lines: Free Worksheets
blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Some of my students who have been working through the ledger line worksheets are having trouble figuring out...
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