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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tomorrow is Australia Day! So I thought that you or your students might like to play Waltzing Matilda to celebrate. Please CLICK BELOW TO...

Dynamic Independence As you progress in your piano studies an issue will eventually come up that we piano teachers call hand...

“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...

One of my favorite Christmas songs is the traditional English carol, I Saw Three Ships. I like Sting’s recording, and lots of other...

Blog.UpperHandsPiano.com One of the primary differences between experienced pianists and beginners is in the fluidity of the hand moving...

To reawaken love and beauty when life feels overwhelmingly painful, we can turn to our music. This gorgeous theme from the 2nd movement...

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...

Today I have posted an intermediate arrangement of Shenandoah. You can hear it sung by Sissel, and Van Morrison and the Chieftains....

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 I hope you are enjoying luxuriously lengthening days as we launch into summer. My garden is crying out for me to...

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

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...