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...

For the past two months I have asked my subscribers what their favorite holiday songs are, and the winner is the Christmas carol, O Holy...

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...

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...

© 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...

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...

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...

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...

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

“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...

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

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

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...

In light of the fact that we’re having some pretty strange spring weather on both the east and west coasts, and because I have been...