With all the record-breaking storms bombarding our world these days, I was reminded of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata No. 17, Movement 3,...

Our beloved Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on this day, January 27, in 1756, in Salzburg, Austria. To celebrate his birthday and to set...

Happy December Piano Friends I hope you had an enjoyable Thanksgiving, filled with music, love and gratitude. Today I got out my holiday...

Today is the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach (though there is some confusion about the date). To celebrate, I have arranged Bach’s...

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...

📷 by David Brooke Martin For the last year I have been researching calming, melodic pieces, and Gabriel Fauré’s Romance Sans Paroles...

Happy New Year Friends! I hope this finds you well, and feeling at least somewhat optimistic about 2021. Last year was admittedly...

Now more than ever it feels important to play beautiful music, to calm and elevate the spirit. The theme from Swan Lake has a gorgeous,...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Some of my students who have been working through the ledger line worksheets are having trouble figuring out...

One of the most requested piano pieces is Scott Joplin’s, The Entertainer. Though Joplin wrote it in 1902, it was used in the film The...

A thousand apologies for my tardiness in posting my April free sheet music. March is a busy month for me- I start the month practicing...

I have had many requests for easy sheet music to Debussy’s Clair de lune, and so have transposed it to C and simplified it for the...

Play music together! I recently heard author (of Eat, Pray, Love) Elizabeth Gilbert speak about creative work: Everything that is...

Arc de Triumph In these troubled times, listening to and playing beautiful music helps us stay positive, empathetic and receptive. One of...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com My dear student Joan requested the beautiful and melodic Pavane by the French composer Gabriel Fauré so I wrote...

In light of the fact that we’re having some pretty strange spring weather on both the east and west coasts, and because I have been...

Kylemore Abbey It’s March, and I’m enjoying practicing Irish tunes for a few upcoming St. Patrick’s Day gigs. Though I already have two...

© Carlosphotos | Dreamstime Stock Photos Let me begin with a painful confession: I abused my ears in my youth. I played keyboards in a...

Dear Piano Peeps: Today I hope you will join me in pledging to play the piano at least 10 minutes every day for the next 30 days (January...

I am fascinated by the concept of practice, because it has been such a charged word for me in the past. As a young child it was a...