For a while I've been working on these two songs and I'm so grateful to learn new piano music that is refreshing to the soul or provides opportunities for growth as a pianist. Both of these songs are amazing to learn and teach to Intermediate or Early Advanced. Hope you enjoy these selections. Refraction, created by Travis Lohmann (from a series called Portraits No. 5,) a composer in Las Vegas, Nevada and where I learned about his music through Piano Pronto, composed a song a

On Saturday I asked three of my students to create a video of vocal and piano solos and all three of them took a risk that day creating videos. Hope you enjoy. I'm so proud of them trying music "bigger than themselves". What a blessing. The song Boston by Stella Lefty is so popular not only in Country Music, yet according to my students the song is all over TikTok. IDK. Liam, an online student instantly worked on the song several times and then sent a video. He really likes t

So today I had to cancel the Sister Act 2 Show Choir Camp, as I didn't have enough participants. After getting set up and one of the girls showed up, I realized that the others were not showing up. So this brought on inquiries. There are no answers to these questions, yet I was reminded that I took a risk, that maybe others would not have tried. I had some people say I didn't know you were doing the camp until two days before. I have been sharing about the show choir camp for

Several years ago I found a copy of the duet and as we prepared for America's 250th Birthday, I decided to try to identify how to learn the duet and utilize iMovie. This is my first lengthy duet that doesn't align, as the Secondo has a pickup on beat 3 and 3 measures before the Primo begins. The medley contains excerpts from: The Marine's Hymn, Anchors Away, The Cassion's Song, Yankee Doodle Dandy and America the Beautiful. The music begins in the key of C Major, F Major and