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Piano Puzzlers!

August 9, 2021

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The Piano Puzzlers book is available in the O’Connor Music Studio library if you’d like to give any a try. Piano Puzzlers as heard on American Public Media’s “Performance Today.” Includes 32 tunes with songs by Gershwin, Berlin, Arlen, Porter, Rodgers, Fats Waller, Lennon & McCartney, and others disguised in the styles of Bach, […]

Monday Music Quiz #1

August 2, 2021

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🎬 Movie Night!
Free! Two movies will be offered on this date; one directed to young children and their families and the second movie directed to teenagers.
🎃 Blog Posts Halloween Music: The Addams Family
Students always find this piece fun with its finger snaps. There are three versions in Piano Maestro and it’s in several piano books including Halloween Songbook (Easy Piano). There was a a new Addams Family animated movie out in 2019, so your students are going to be snapping all over the place when this Halloween […]
🎃 Halloween Music: Ghostbusters
Students always find this piece fun with its finger snaps. There are three versions in Piano Maestro and it’s in several piano books including Halloween Songbook (Easy Piano).
🎃 Halloween Songbook (Easy Piano)
This popular easy piano collection features 16 spooky tunes of the season, including: The Addams Family Theme * Little Shop of Horrors * Monster Mash * The Thing * Funeral March * Casper the Friendly Ghost * Purple People Eater * and more. Note: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
🎃 Halloween Music: Ghostbusters
Another student favorite, Ghostbusters, has 2 versions in Piano Maestro.
🐿 Nuts For Alpha Notes, V. U. Level C: Pre-Reading Songs and Activities for Early Primer Piano Students
Brand new - I've just ordered a couple of copies for students and the studio. Nuts For Alpha Notes is a pre-reading resource. Children using this book will build keyboard awareness while playing alpha notes in middle C position. Inside you will discover 7 loveable piano pieces with lyrics and teacher duets, keyboard awareness games, […]
🎃 Halloween Music: The Monster Mash
The Monster Mash by Bobby “Boris” Pickett is in Piano Maestro with 3 different levels to play. The song was released as a single in August 1962 and it has been a perennial Halloween favorite ever since.
📘 The 40 Most-Streamed Disney Songs: Easy Piano Songbook
Beginning pianists will love learning to play the Disney songs they stream most frequently! This impressive 264-page collection features 40 songs in accessible easy piano arrangements with lyrics, including: Beauty and the Beast * Hakuna Matata * How Far I'll Go * I See the Light * Let It Go * Love Is an Open […]
🎃 Blog Posts Halloween Music: Jaws
Students always find this piece fun with its finger snaps. There are three versions in Piano Maestro and it’s in several piano books including Halloween Songbook (Easy Piano). There was a a new Addams Family animated movie out in 2019, so your students are going to be snapping all over the place when this Halloween […]
🎃 Blog Posts Halloween Music: Jaws
Students always find this piece fun with its finger snaps. There are three versions in Piano Maestro and it’s in several piano books including Halloween Songbook (Easy Piano). There was a a new Addams Family animated movie out in 2019, so your students are going to be snapping all over the place when this Halloween […]
📘 Czerny -- Selected Piano Studies, Vol 1
As there are several hundred piano studies by Czerny, it might become confusing to attempt to pick out the most effective exercises. To overcome this problem, Heinrich Germer, the original editor, chose those he thought were best. Willard A. Palmer has made several changes to metronome markings, fingerings and pedal indications where he felt certain […]
⛴ About Columbus Day Holiday!
Video on the history of Columbus Day
🎂 Happy Birthday, Jelly Roll Morton!
Jelly Roll Morton, born Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe in 1885, was one of the most influential composers of the jazz era, bridging an important gap between ragtime, blues, and jazz. In a sense, he was the first great jazz composer. His career began in New Orleans, where he began to experiment with a unique blend […]
🌟 How it All Began
When I was growing up, my dad was a minister, meaning we lived in whatever parsonage the church chose to let us live in. The one we had in Pawcatuck, CT had an upright piano that someone had put out in the sunroom. Not the best place for a piano, but I digress. Since we […]
🎹 Day Eight ~ Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice
We have established that regular practice routines will not happen without proactive piano parents. So, how can parents be proactive practice assistants even if they have never touched a piano? Day 8. The Timekeeper: Some of the O’Connor Music Studio students are using Andrea And Trevor Dow’s Timed Note Reading Tests For Piano, so their […]

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