Composition Competition 2010 – Results
It was great to receive 11 composition submissions to the competition and many of my students had worked hard on their pieces. In the end though I had to come up with two winners from the entries received and these pieces were performed at the concert on 4th December, 2010. I will add some more [...]
Christmas Composition Competition
Though the title is a bit of a tongue-twister the idea is quite straight forward…
This year I am hosting a Christmas Composition Competition to get all my students trying their hand at composing. It is open to all my students and you may compose a song with or without words but there must be a [...]
Raindrops develop from CDE beginnings
Many of my students will recollect the “CDE song” as one of the first pieces I taught them on the piano. The song is actually published in “Music Lessons Have Begun, by Leila Fletcher” which was a tutor book I learned from myself as a child, yes it was published that long ago! I don’t [...]
5-finger Fur Elise
An easy piano (5 finger position) arrangement of Beethoven’s Fur Elise with backing track and demo video.
African Elephant Composition by Oliver, age 8
Oliver showed me his composition today, which I think was pretty good for an 8 year old. This is the first time I have used Noteflight which is a bit like google docs for musical scores; making the score viewable, searchable and printable on the noteflight site and producing an embeddable, printable flash score for [...]
- Na na na na na na na! http://t.co/1k919vlR
- has a day off today on account of the Queen's visit to Chester. Perhaps if I take my piano to the zoo, I could... http://t.co/m76ekoCU