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Great is Thy Faithfulness became a public domain hymn this past January!
I have an advanced piano arrangement in the works for this well-loved hymn to be published by the end of September 2019.
Here’s a sneak preview of the first page:
I enjoy creating pieces with a certain student in mind. This particular piece goes to one of my older female students who enjoys playing songs in a minor key.
The idea for the introduction hit me as I laid down to sleep this past Wednesday. I had to get up and write it down or the idea would have been history!
Even though I’m an advanced level pianist, I still enjoy playing this early intermediate arrangement of “O Come O Come Emmanuel”.
I just finished writing three Christmas piano arrangements today for several of my students!
I’ll publish them asap…hopefully by this weekend. The titles and levels are as follows:
O Little Town of Bethlehem (Late beginner)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (late elementary)
O Come O Come Emmanuel (Early intermediate)
Also in the process of writing the teacher piano parts for two piano ensemble numbers for Christmas recital.
Piano ensemble numbers are getting popular with my bunch of students. They absolutely LOVE playing in a group setting!
They like it so much that now they have one group lesson rehearsal once a month now until Christmas recital! The titles are: “Jingle Bells” with bell ringing in couple places 🙂 Also..O Come All Ye Faithful (our grand finale number)
I’m REALLY in the writing mood here lately. Hopefully you’ll see the results soon!
My favorite arrangement of “My Savior First of All” is by Mary McDonald from her book entitled “This is My Story”.
I’ll be playing this simple; yet elegant version tomorrow for offertory.
The introduction sets the mood for this beautiful hymn tune by John Sweney.
I love to hear my Dad sing this song too! I’ll be sharing clips of Dad singing this song and others asap.
Here’s a sample page from Mary McDonald’s version of “I Shall Know Him”.
Meryt Wilson and I REALLY enjoyed getting together a couple weeks ago to discuss Accompanying Vocal Specials. We came up with a series of short videos talking about various ideas on accompanying the vocalist.
Here are several practice tips for the church pianist who plays for vocal specials.
I’m thrilled to FINALLY have this arrangement in print of “His Name is Wonderful to Me” written by my Dad, Reece Yandle.
This new vocal solo is now available for purchase at Sheet Music Plus. Available in two different keys! (E flat and F Major)
PROMO SPECIAL: Buy this arrangement on Sheet Music Plus and email us your receipt of purchase and we’ll email you one piano solo arrangement of your choice…FREE! from Jenifer’s online music store. Email: jenifer@thechurchpianist.com
Dad has written many songs over the years. He has published nine of them on Sheet Music Plus over the last couple of years.
Click here to see what he’s published on Sheet Music Plus.
In addition, Dad has at least three published songs through Lorenz. The songs are included in three different books of various composers. They are listed below:
Book Title: No Greater Love: Song Title: “Nevertheless Thy Will be Done” VIEW SAMPLE PAGES
Book title: Face to Face Song title: “By the Grace of God” VIEW SAMPLE PAGES
Book title: Day by Day Song title: “Who Will Go?” (nice mission theme song) VEW SAMPLE PAGES
Below is a video of Alton Beal, President of Ambassador Baptist College, singing my Dad’s song, “His Name is Wonderful to Me.”
Finding time to practice vocal specials is a challenge for most church pianists! Listen to Meryt Wilson and Jenifer Cook as they discuss this challenging topic.
Meryt Wilson, one of my dear piano friends and myself, try to get together at least once a year to boost our music creativity.
We decided this year to discuss the topic of Accompanying vocal specials.
This is just a candid conversation that took place between us.
Choosing the song for a singer may not be needed most of the time… but here are some suggestions on how it could benefit some singers.
Next video excerpt will discuss practicing tips with vocal specials! Have you ever heard of audacity? I’ll mention it in the next video.