July Free Sheet Music: Cello Suite No. 1
One of my favorite pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach is his Cello Suite No. 1. It was popularized in the 2009 film, The Soloist, about a...
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Gaili Schoen
Jun 2, 2019
June Free Sheet Music: Tico Tico
I recently came upon the song Tico Tico in a book of songs played by the French Gypsy jazz guitarist, Django Reinhardt, and fell in love...
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...
Gaili Schoen
May 1, 2019
May Free Sheet Music: The Entertainer
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...
Gaili Schoen
Apr 23, 2019
Habits and Routines
I have recently discovered that YouTube has an application with which one can create video captions. This is exciting news to me, as I am...
Gaili Schoen
Apr 4, 2019
April Free Sheet Music: Amazing Grace
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...
Gaili Schoen
Feb 8, 2019
Learning Ledger Lines- free worksheets
It’s the month of love, and to express my appreciation for my subscribers I wanted to give you some worksheets to help you practice...
Gaili Schoen
Jan 25, 2019
Free: Waltzing Matilda sheet music for Australia Day!
Tomorrow is Australia Day! So I thought that you or your students might like to play Waltzing Matilda to celebrate. Please CLICK BELOW TO...
Gaili Schoen
Jan 17, 2019
How to Play Softer With One Hand: 5 Exercises
Dynamic Independence As you progress in your piano studies an issue will eventually come up that we piano teachers call hand...
Gaili Schoen
Dec 20, 2018
January Free Sheet Music: Auld Lang Syne
“We’ll take a cup of kindness yet for auld lang syne” Though you might be busy practicing your Christmas carols such as I Saw Three Ships...
Gaili Schoen
Dec 2, 2018
December Free Sheet Music: I Saw Three Ships
One of my favorite Christmas songs is the traditional English carol, I Saw Three Ships. I like Sting’s recording, and lots of other...
Gaili Schoen
Nov 18, 2018
KEY UP: Moving hands forward on the keys
Blog.UpperHandsPiano.com One of the primary differences between experienced pianists and beginners is in the fluidity of the hand moving...
Gaili Schoen
Nov 1, 2018
November Free Sheet Music: Sonata Pathetique (Adagio cantabile)
To reawaken love and beauty when life feels overwhelmingly painful, we can turn to our music. This gorgeous theme from the 2nd movement...
Gaili Schoen
Sep 3, 2018
September Free Sheet Music: Clair de lune
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...
Gaili Schoen
Aug 21, 2018
August Free Sheet Music: Shenandoah
Today I have posted an intermediate arrangement of Shenandoah. You can hear it sung by Sissel, and Van Morrison and the Chieftains....
Gaili Schoen
Jul 20, 2018
Accountability
Play music together! I recently heard author (of Eat, Pray, Love) Elizabeth Gilbert speak about creative work: Everything that is...
Gaili Schoen
Jul 2, 2018
July Free Sheet Music: Triumph of Time and Truth plus new WEBSITE and BLOG
Arc de Triumph In these troubled times, listening to and playing beautiful music helps us stay positive, empathetic and receptive. One of...
Gaili Schoen
Jun 2, 2018
June Free Sheet Music: Tchaikovsky’s June
blog.upperhandspiano.com I hope you are enjoying luxuriously lengthening days as we launch into summer. My garden is crying out for me to...
Gaili Schoen
May 1, 2018
May FREE Sheet Music: Pavane
blog.UpperHandsPiano.com My dear student Joan requested the beautiful and melodic Pavane by the French composer Gabriel Fauré so I wrote...
Gaili Schoen
Apr 23, 2018
Practice Small
Dear Piano Players: Last year I wrote a blog post called Goals vs Intentions, and today I would like to explore those ideas further. To...
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