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...

With all of the extra time you now have, it is a great time for you to stick your toe into the pool of songwriting. Ok don’t scream,...

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...

I received requests for more pieces from the 2020 adaptation of Emma (now playing in theaters as well as online!), so today I am sending...

In the last month I have seen the 2020 film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel Emma twice; once in the theater, and a second time last...

It’s a gray day here in LA, the best weather for getting cozy with a book (it’s stay home and read a book day!) or some new sheet music...

In just a few days I will hold my drawing for 20 Sheet Music page holders! All who have left a comment since December have been entered...

Piano Friends, I am so excited to offer you a medley of Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin! One of the most beloved pieces by an...

It has been awhile since I posted, as I was in France and England for 4 weeks, enjoying amazing architecture, music, art, books, and...

Happy New Year! It is SO EXCITING when a new year’s worth of songs come into the public domain! As of today, all American songs and...

One of the biggest issues piano students struggle with when their hands have to jump more than a few keys, is finding their location on...

Since this is the month for expressing gratitude, I would like to say that I am deeply grateful for the work I get to do– blogging about...

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...

Welcome to Part 3 of How to Build Chords on the Piano! In this video I explain how to build 6th chords, and 7th, MAJOR 7th and MINOR 7th...

One of the scariest Halloween pieces I know is Bach’s Toccata and Fugue. I have adapted this organ piece for early intermediate piano so...

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...

© Agb Photo Library | Dreamstime.com Music is made up of chords that blend with melody within a rhythm, to tell a story. As pianists we...

In Upper Hands Piano: BOOK 3 (p. 62-63) there is an arrangement of the popular theme from the third movement of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No....

© Louie Schoeman – Dreamstime.com Last month Upper Hands Piano blog subscriber Colin commented on my blog post asking for a simplified...

©Alexey Arkhipov Dreamstime.com A couple of month ago I posted worksheets for learning bass ledger lines, and this month I wanted to...