Dynamic Balance for the Spring Equinox
Happy Spring to those in the Northern Hemisphere! Though it feels like our cold, wet winter will never end here in California, my garden...
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Gaili Schoen
Sep 1, 2022
Sept Free Sheet Music: Bye Bye Blackbird: Easy, Int, & Adv
Happy September Piano Friends! Lately I have been posting a lot of classical sheet music, so today I thought I would offer something...
Gaili Schoen
Jul 2, 2022
July Free Sheet Music: Chopin Nocturne (intermediate arrangement)
“Chopin Concert” painting by Henryk Siemiradzki (Public Domain) Chopin was only twenty when he composed his Nocturne Opus 9, No. 2 in...
Gaili Schoen
Mar 31, 2022
Happy Birthday Bach! (Free Sheet Music & What is Desirable Difficulty?)
Today is the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach (though there is some confusion about the date). To celebrate, I have arranged Bach’s...
Gaili Schoen
Feb 15, 2022
Giveaway Winners! And some Practice Tips to review in ’22
I hope you had a lovely Valentine’s Day spent with someone you love, or doing something you love to do! (Like eating chocolate?! Playing...
Gaili Schoen
Jan 22, 2022
Goals, Intentions, Scheduling, Structure
We know that setting goals can be an effective way to focus our practice time. In the past I have held “Pledge to Play: 10 Minutes A Day”...
Gaili Schoen
Nov 1, 2021
November Free Sheet Music: We Have Much to Be Thankful For, by Irving Berlin
It is November at last, and having enjoyed a nearly normal Halloween, I think many of us are looking forward to gathering in-person with...
Gaili Schoen
May 31, 2020
June Free Sheet Music: Chopsticks Duet!
Although we think of Chopsticks as a quirky beginner’s tune, it is actually not that easy to play! Chopsticks is most fun when we play it...
Gaili Schoen
Dec 31, 2019
It Had To Be You (January Free Sheet Music)
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...
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
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
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
Jan 10, 2018
Resolve
Resolve! blog.UpperHandsPiano.com If you’re like me, you love making new year’s resolutions. The year ahead is a clean slate, filled with...
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