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Easter is just around the corner and church pianists are looking for Easter arrangements or already practicing one. I thought I’d post my free piano arrangement of “My Saviour’s Love”.
I meant to include this audio for the free piano arrangement of Jesus Loves Me.
A hymn which has truly stood the test of time…Jesus Loves Me.
This hymn was born from a story read by the co-author…William Bradbury.
The story goes…
A young boy was dying and a dear friend read the boy this beautiful poem for comfort…
“Jesus loves me! this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to him belong, they are weak but He is strong.
Jesus loves me! He who died Heaven’s gate to open wide; He will wash away my sin, let His little child come in.
Jesus loves me! He will stay close beside me all the way.; He’s prepared a home for me, and some day His face I’ll see.”
What comforting words!
William saw this poem as an excellent song for children. He wrote a melody for the poem and added the chorus as we all know…
“Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes Jesus loves me! Yes Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so.”
This hymn has reached the hearts of young and old alike.
The next article will provide a free piano arrangement of this well-loved hymn.
Our choir is singing “What Child is This?” in unison. We’re singing it in a lower key. Since the choir is unison….I like to insert chord substitutions to dress it up a bit.
I wrote a simple piano arrangement of “What Child” just so our other pianist could follow my chording to avoid chord clashes between us 
Feel free to use this as accompaniment for unison choir or a vocal solo.
It wouldn’t be appropriate for a piano solo because the melody is missing here and there. Although, most of you could probably insert the melody in those places
Hope all is going well with your church’s Christmas program practices.
Click the title below for the free Christmas piano arrangment:
Yes, I have been rather busy but taking time to send you all another free Christmas piano arrangement.
It’s an intermediate piano solo of “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”.
I wrote this arrangement for a student of mine last year for the Christmas piano recital.
Hopefully you or one of your students can make use of it.
You will see fingering suggestions throughout the arrangement.
I enjoyed creating this sacred piano arrangement of “To God be the Glory”.
Part one of this free arrangement is available at the following link:
Click here for part two of “To God be the Glory” arrangement