How To Arrange a Song Using Intros & Endings Our video today is about how to arrange a song to make it unique. Good morning. This is Duane, and we’ve been doing a series about how to color on the … Continue reading →
Piano Arranging – Using Octaves With Intervals of a 3rd Piano arranging is a skill every piano player ought to develop, because it gives him or her the opportunity to “do your own thing” on the piano, without sounding the … Continue reading →
Arranging Amazing Grace On The Piano Good morning. This is Duane and today I’d like to talk about arranging Amazing Grace using triplets and octave walk-ups. I think we’ll do it in the key of F, I think it’s usually … Continue reading →
Hark The Herald Angels Sing: Ideas For Piano Arranging Hello again. This is Duane and Merry Christmas to you. As we continue our series of Christmas carols, let’s take up that old Christmas classic Hark the Herald Angels Sing: Ideas … Continue reading →
What’s the Difference between Arranging a Song and Improvising a Song? There are two main differences between a song that is “arranged” and one that is “improvised”. 1. How the song appears in manuscript 2. How the song is performed … Continue reading →
Silver Bells: A Simple Arrangement Adding 3rds & Echos to create a simple arrangement. Use any kind of left hand accompaniment in 3/4 such as a swing bass. Did you know you can watch over 300 of my short videos … Continue reading →
O Come All Ye Faithful is one of the most-used Christmas Carols of all time. Here are a few ideas for arranging it on the piano. Please watch this 10-minute video: Arranging Christmas Carols Course
Continue reading →It’s fine if you WANT to play old hymns just as they are written in the hymnbook, but you certainly don’t have to. Most hymnbooks are written in 4 parts: soprano, alto, tenor and bass. But you as a piano … Continue reading →
When Isaac Watts wrote “Joy To The World” based on a score by George Frederick Handel’s “The Messiah” he was writing about the 2nd coming of Christ — not the first advent as we almost all assume. Notice the words – particularly of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th verses
Continue reading →What in the world is “naked music?” You know it when you hear it, but the words that describe it sound strange, don’t they? We’ve all heard of popular music and rock music and gospel music and jazz music, but … Continue reading →
