The Church Pianist: Free Piano Arrangement (Part One)
How about a free piano arrangement for “Sunlight”? (congregational style)
One of my adult piano students attends a church with several pianists. The songleader has setup a rotating schedule to give more of the pianists an opporunity to play for the church service. What a great idea…utulizing the people God has provided a church family 🙂
I’ve particularly enjoyed sharing improvising tips with this student. She’s so ready to learn and has shown great progress in being more mobile on the keyboard due to her being able to play at her church. The next hymn we will work with is “Sunlight”. The melody is very busy….but….relax! The pianist doesn’t need to play every single word 🙂 Just play on the main beats (1,2,3,4) and let the congregation keep up with the words.
Editor notes for today’s free piano arrangement for
PDF link: “Sunlight” (Part One)
Overall right hand analysis: I used chord inversions with a sprinkle of triplet groups here and there for some extra spice. Measure #6: Look at how I play empty octaves (octaves without any notes in the middle) during fast passages in the right hand. I added middle notes to the 1st beat of the right hand to emphasize the accented beat in 4/4 time. (Beats one and three are normally accented in 4/4 time.)
Left hand mainly consists of octaves and chords. Notice the alternating bass in the piano score…avoiding the overuse of E flat bass in the vocal score. (as in measures #1,2,and 5)
I too have spent MUCH time going in circles trying to find the pdf arrangement for the part one of Sunlight! Or whichever part is missing: THE CHORUS….seems odd that you would post only part, unless the rest is to come later? Can you please let us know, as so frustrating! 🙂 Thank you SO much for all your help to church pianists! JRae
Hi Judy,
Sorry to put you through the frustration. The link is already provided…but….I forgot to specify it as a link….so I will go do so right now.