With my shorter and lower versions of some classical vocal music, they can still experience the beauty of great vocal music and grow familiar with the classical repertoire, though they are young. Like the beautiful central portion of the Flower Duet.
SOME OF MY VOCAL STUDENTS LOVE OPERA, but have voices much too young and undeveloped to sing the songs in the original keys. I knew he would really go to town if he could attack the Canon, scale passages and all, arranged in the key of C at an appropriate level of difficulty for him. I had one young pianist whose favorite piece was Pachelbel's Canon in D. WHY GO TO ALL THIS WORK? BECAUSE OF MY STUDENTS. Nothing could be printed at home or at my studio, unfortunately! Music notation software to the rescue!īUT TODAY, WITH A COMPUTER and great music notation software, sheet music has become a pleasure to write up. Back then, it meant writing out music laboriously by hand on staff paper, then visiting the local copy center. It wasn't exactly free sheet music then, not for me, anyway. I also began to write and arrange piano music for my students, and my own kids. I found I enjoy arranging & setting music. So, like many of you, I began an on-going odyssey in search of music books with a high percentage of interesting pieces.
If only free sheet music for kids was available. Or they were ready to boogie with the 12-bar blues, but they weren't ready to read any of the blues music that I could find. Sometimes my students needed lots more practice with the same set of notes, but we had run out of music. Or there just wasn't any music to be found. Or I might find the piano song they wanted, but the arrangement turned out to be. Or perhaps the composition I wanted wasn't available in my student's level.and even if it was, I wouldn't find out in time (think Christmas) because there was - and still is - no music store within a hundred miles of my town. I needed a source for free sheet music! It can be hard to match a student with the right arrangement Sometimes I didn't want to ask parents to spend money on yet another book, when I felt pretty sure only two or three of the pieces in the collection would interest my particular student. Of course there were lots of supplemental books I could buy. Then, it was always nice to have "extra" or "fun" music to coax them along through the tough times in their piano method books. Sure, my favorite piano method books had some real gems scattered throughout the pages, but also pieces that kids would drag their way through, getting stuck in for a few weeks. The idea for my own free sheet music site started years ago, when I had trouble finding enough piano music I liked that my students and my own children liked too. Read about my own experiences and ideas, and what many other teachers have found to work in their own studios! Why this music site? but they can be a challenge to teach for a teacher who is not prepared.
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