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

Are you ready to get your green on? St. Patrick’s Day is on Wednesday and I thought you might like to play one more classic Irish song to...

Cashel, Ireland Happy March! This month we celebrate 🇮🇪Irish music🇮🇪, a genre near and dear to my heart, as I fell in love with...

📷 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...

This week we celebrate what would have been Beethoven’s 250th birthday! How wonderful that Beethoven’s body of music continues to thrive...

@HudsonHintz One of my favorite holiday rituals is listening to Tchaikovsky’s enchanting Nutcracker Suite. Though we won’t be able to...

While we Americans are patiently 😁 awaiting our presidential election results, we might turn our attention to the fact that it is the...

Well this may be the least eventful Halloween we have ever experienced, but we can still have fun watching spooky movies and playing...

During the pandemic I have been posting piano arrangements of beautiful melodies to soothe and uplift. Last month, subscriber Keith...

Searching for beautiful melodies, I suddenly remembered that Chopin believed that his theme for Étude Op. 10, No. 3 was his most...

Scott Joplin was one of the most innovative composers in the history of western music. Credited with inventing ragtime music in the...

It is Bastille Day! A time to celebrate and enjoy all things French. You might want to consider making a light Salade Niçoise, a Quiche...

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,...

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,...

I have a piano student who had always wanted to write songs, but just couldn’t seem to get started. When I asked him what he’d like to...

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...

Although we think of Chopsticks as a quirky beginner’s tune, it is actually not that easy to play! Chopsticks is most fun when we play it...

One of the most daunting aspects of writing music is the limitless possibilities for chords, melodies and lyrics. In this post I will...

I hope you have been getting your creative juices flowing after spending some time improvising on your instrument. If you haven’t yet...