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Dianna:
Your website is a light in the darkness. THANK YOU for all you do in helping to spread the love of music. It matters!

Recent Articles

  1. Find Home School & Other Students, & Teach Them Music!

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    Let me give you suggestions on how to find music students in a new town. Parents want qualified, fun teachers for their kids - meet them where they are!

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  2. Traditional Irish Sheet Music: White, Orange & Green

    White, Orange and Green for piano
    Free Irish sheet music, the beautiful White, Orange, & Green tells the story of a daring young Irish girl, who defends her country's flag!

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  3. Vocalises for Beginners: Encouraging Them to Sing With Resonance!

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    Vocalises for beginners to help them sing with resonance. Encourage students to imitate weird but useful sounds to bring "ringiness" to their voice!

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  4. Blow Ye Winds: a Sea Shanty Arranged for Piano Solos & Duet!

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    Blow Ye Winds is an old whaling song with a robust melody. Get free piano solo & duet sheet music for beginners to intermediate students!

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  5. How to Remember Guitar String Names: a Guide for Kids

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    How to remember the guitar's string names? Give kids a printable acrostic guide they can look at each lesson and practice session until they have memorized it!

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Interested in songs from the Bible for your students or church?  Check out my other website, SingTheBibleStory.com!

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Songs Old & Songs New

All the first-year material I give my beginner students. 

Piano keyboard sheets, scales, chords, note-reading exercises, and over 256 pages of music!

The Story of Esther - a Bible opera!

Queen Esther in the Bible

This beautiful song book for piano & voice "Esther, For Such a Time as This",  available as a digital downloadtells the riveting story of the time when  Jews in ancient Persia faced a foe named Haman, and how a  brave young queen risked her life to save her people.

A good choice for a singing story-teller, an operatic group, a short theater production, or a class of children!

This book is also available from Amazon as a paperback.


Just the Black Keys, a piano song book for young beginners.

Just the Black Keys

This book is available as a digital download  from this site.  Visit this page to see some free examples from the book.

It is also available from Amazon as a paperback!

This is the perfect easy start for little pianists.

And when they start reading white-key notes on the staff, this is a fun easy resource to say each week, "Choose a new black-key song at home this week and figure it out to show me next lesson!"  They will be spending more time at the piano.

The Adventures of Tonsta, Volume 1, is a book about a young boy travelling over mountains and fjords from village to village, encountering trolls and helping folk in distress.

The Adventures of Tonsta

A perfect read aloud storybook
for little boys or girls. 

The Adventures of Tonsta highlight the travels of a very young boy with a good heart, who goes about helping folk in trouble.  

With a red cap on his head and a sack of tools slung over his shoulder, Tonsta seems to meet people in distress wherever he goes.

Lots of trolls in this book - including one who gives him a Christmas gift!

Available at Amazon