Shiny, new Piano Maestro version is live! We’ve listened to your amazing feedback and have added your most requested songs, improved your Teacher reports, polished the ‘Share The Moment’ feature, added iOS 16 compatibility and squashed tons of bugs! Welcome to the Simply family! As part of unifying all our Simply (formerly JoyTunes) products under the Simply umbrella, we’re bringing the […]
In Piano Maestro – the Pokemon Theme! You can find it in the TV & Game Theme’s category in 3 different versions (Easy, Melody Line and 2 Hands version) Enjoy!
Vivaldi, one of the greatest baroque composers, has a very interesting story. He ran an orphanage in the 18th century in Italy that became famous all over the western world for its musically talented children. A lot of his pieces were written for specific children in his school. Vivaldi learned the violin from his […]
It will be fun watching your child improve their piano skills all while having fun using Piano Maestro in lessons each week! As your child’s teacher (or YOUR teacher!), I’m looking forward to seeing the progress they will make when they start using it at home each day. This guide will help you understand how this app will […]
“The Entertainer” is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. It was sold first as sheet music, and in the 1910s as piano rolls that would play on player pianos. It was used as the theme music for the 1973 Oscar-winning film The Sting by composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch. The Sting […]
Today’s Listening Assignment is Country Gardens by Percy Grainger. “Country Gardens” is an English folk tune collected by Cecil Sharp from the playing of William Kimber and arranged for piano in 1918 by Percy Grainger. The tune and the Grainger arrangement for piano and orchestra is a favorite with school orchestras, and other performances […]
“A Whole New World” from ‘Aladdin’ It’s not too late to have your students play JoyTunes movie-themed Summer Camp! Summer Camp songs are a great way to play fun songs over the break, as to not lose momentum come fall. “A Whole New World” from ‘Aladdin’ is the last Summer Camp song of the season. Available […]
Today, we’ll listen to the Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, of Ludwig van Beethoven. It was written between 1804–1808. It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music, and one of the most frequently played symphonies. As is typical of symphonies in the classical period, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is in four […]
Korobeiniki is a nineteenth-century Russian folk song that tells the story of a meeting between a peddler and a girl, describing their haggling over goods in a veiled metaphor for courtship. Outside Russia, “Korobeiniki” is widely known as the Tetris theme. Piano duet: Orchestral version: For Boomwhackers: Vocal: […]
“Morning Mood” is part of Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt, Op. 23 was written in 1875. The melody uses the pentatonic (five note) scale, lending itself to beginning piano books. Orchestra: Music box: Cartoon: Flash mob(!!) Morning Mood is available in Piano Maestro, Piano Pronto Prelude (as Morning Theme) and […]
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