June Free Sheet Music: Beethoven’s “The Tempest” theme!
With all the record-breaking storms bombarding our world these days, I was reminded of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata No. 17, Movement 3,...
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Gaili Schoen
- Jan 26
Happy Birthday Mozart! And Free Sheet Music
Our beloved Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on this day, January 27, in 1756, in Salzburg, Austria. To celebrate his birthday and to set...
Gaili Schoen
- Dec 2, 2022
December Free Holiday Sheet Music: Carol of the Bells and Rock of Ages
Happy December Piano Friends I hope you had an enjoyable Thanksgiving, filled with music, love and gratitude. Today I got out my holiday...
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
- Jan 1, 2022
January Free Sheet Music: Someone to Watch Over Me
Happy New Year Friends! I always enjoy posting free sheet music for you at the beginning of each month, but on January 1st it’s...
Gaili Schoen
- Jan 31, 2021
February Free Sheet Music: Romance Sans Paroles (by Fauré)
📷 by David Brooke Martin For the last year I have been researching calming, melodic pieces, and Gabriel Fauré’s Romance Sans Paroles...
Gaili Schoen
- Jan 2, 2021
January Free Sheet Music: Look for the Silver Lining
Happy New Year Friends! I hope this finds you well, and feeling at least somewhat optimistic about 2021. Last year was admittedly...
Gaili Schoen
- Jul 1, 2020
July Free Sheet Music: Swan Lake (theme)
Now more than ever it feels important to play beautiful music, to calm and elevate the spirit. The theme from Swan Lake has a gorgeous,...
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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 2, 2018
April Free Sheet Music: Wayfaring Stranger
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...
Gaili Schoen
- Mar 2, 2018
March FREE Sheet Music: Star of the County Down
Kylemore Abbey It’s March, and I’m enjoying practicing Irish tunes for a few upcoming St. Patrick’s Day gigs. Though I already have two...
Gaili Schoen
- May 28, 2017
WHAT??? 12 Ways To Protect Your Ears Against Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
© Carlosphotos | Dreamstime Stock Photos Let me begin with a painful confession: I abused my ears in my youth. I played keyboards in a...
Gaili Schoen
- Jan 15, 2017
Pledge To Play: 10 Minutes A Day
Dear Piano Peeps: Today I hope you will join me in pledging to play the piano at least 10 minutes every day for the next 30 days (January...
Gaili Schoen
- Jan 4, 2017
What is a Practice?
I am fascinated by the concept of practice, because it has been such a charged word for me in the past. As a young child it was a...
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