Christmas Carols
Duet Ideas
I have been through the library of ECL posts on the topic of duets and gleaned the following ideas: Honey Dew with Melody on top Jackson Blues (or any other blues song) with blues scale improv on top Amazing Grace with melody on top Chester…
Two Holiday Time Ideas
Here are two holiday ideas for you: 1) My son and I taught a community education class this week where he taught five Christmas songs in the key of C to half the class on the guitar while I was teaching the same five songs…
Silent Night Simply Music Version
Here’s an updated version of Silent Night I sent to the ECL last year. Hopefully, it will be clearer to everyone. I had beginning students playing this with no problem. One beginning student even played this in his church for Christmas. He had a wonderful…
Playing Based Christmas Hits
My students LOVED learning Carol of the Bells that Lynn Frank shared with us. It was so easy and sounded so advanced. Does anyone have another such song taught SM style? I’m looking for another WOW experience for those that did Carol of Bells last…
Carol of the Bells
Here is the teaching process for Carol of the Bells as best as I can describe in writing. It is truly very easy to learn. Contact me if you have questions! Introduction: Hand position: Thumbs of BH on A RH: Use “top” four fingers envision…
Arrangement Copyright and How It Applies To Public Domain Pieces
Hi all, here is a very important message. As more and more pieces come into Public Domain, we see an emerging number of new arrangements of those pieces being made available. I want to make very clear what Simply Music’s position is regarding Copyright as…
Online Holiday Fun
Due to Covid restrictions I’m sad that this year I won’t get to do my usual Christmas Carol sing along at a rest home. My study’s would learn to accompany carols and we would perform/play and sing along with the residents. I can’t even do…
Christmas Accompaniments & Jam Tracks
It’s that time of year again! For any who are interested, here are some Christmas carol accompaniments your students may enjoy: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1h2_ESkaNjVRvo4Gtq7369DeIkTb_P5d8 And some orchestral jam tracks for them to play along with: https://soundcloud.com/user-559128116/sets/christmas-carol-jam-tracks/s-3AN2wGfDdXT I’ll be adding to the jam tracks every couple of days.…
Looking for Comp & Improv Ideas
I am looking for comp and improv ideas? Anyone have any that they would like to share? I am so pleased you have asked about this. It is an area I struggle with also. I often ask them to take a simple right hand (dog is…