I was blessed this morning to hear Molly Madden, a wonderful harpist, playing a couple of my piano hymn arrangements.

Molly was able to adapt them for harp. (special permission given)

Thank you Molly for sharing your God-given talent.

I received the following email from one of my readers today concerning my free arrangement of “Whispering Hope”.

“I am also a church pianist and I am writing to thank you for making your beautiful arrangement of Whispering Hope available free of charge on your website. I played it for yesterday’s “Hymn of the Week” feature on our church YouTube channel. By request I’ve been featuring a different hymn every week since the pandemic lock down began, and providing some background into the writing of each hymn. “

I found the story behind this song very intriguing!

I’ll be going live on facebook this evening at 8:30pm EST to play a little over a half hour of hymns.

See you there!  Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/thechurchpianist/

Just published my first tutorial on Diatonic Chord Substitution Lesson One!

Wow!   WHAT a time I had creating this tutorial!

I focused on making it as easy to understand as possible!

The seventeen minute companion video is loaded with visuals!

Diatonic Chord Substitution Lesson One

Diatonic Chord Substitution....one of the easiest to learn! Enjoy this short; concise easy-to-learn chord substitution lesson! Materials include: Seven page PDF (downloadable) handout; Seven page answer key, companion video chock full of visuals and explanations! *Special note: Buyer receives a private video link via email... within two days after purchase. *Jenifer will email the video link to the buyer's email address used at time of purchase. On sale now through May 25, 2020

Price: $12.00

The first mini lesson on Diatonic Chord Substitution is almost complete!

I had SO much fun creating this short mini lesson that involves seven pages in addition to answer key pages and at least a 17 minute video companion chock full of visuals!

I hope to publish the entire project by this Friday. Watch short commercial below with few bloopers!

Playing some old secular songs at 7:30pm on my personal facebook page

May 1, 2020

Event link:  OLD SECULAR SONGS

Date of this article:  April 27, 2020

Just an update on the upcoming chord substitution tutorial.  I’m hoping to finish the main tutorial by the end of next week.

Today I’ve been creating the visual aids to make the lesson as easy to learn as possible!

I don’t know about you…but I’m a visual learner and LOVE to overload on the visual side of things 😉

I’ll be sharing a FREE introductory video for the Chord Substitution tutorial asap! (right here on my website & facebook live)

I’ll know the cost of the tutorial once it’s complete….and will let everyone know.

The tutorial will be available in my online music store.   

I recently received an email from one of my readers, Frederick Ikpatt.

He shared a video link of himself playing my free arrangement of “Jesus Loves Me.”

Frederick is quite the accomplished pianist!  See and hear him play Jesus Loves Me below.

Check out Frederick’s  Youtube channel.

You have to watch his “Protrait/Piano Story” of himself…very inspiring!

He practices on his keyboard even during electricity outages!

Link to download my free arrangement of “Jesus Loves Me”

Thanks Frederick for sharing your Youtube channel with us!

Jenifer Cook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yG-z3-zGO0

Over the past year, I’ve had a good many of you ask for “improvising hymns” lessons. I wish I had time to teach all of you!

But wait….there may be a solution!

How many of you would be interested in mini-course lessons?
My husband and I started talking it over today.

I could try doing my first mini-lesson on Zoom. The lesson would cover just one specific topic.

I’m thinking a half hour per session at a cost of $10 per session with a

minimumof 5 applicants.

What are your thoughts? What specific topic would you like to see covered?

The “most mentioned” topic will be our first mini-lesson! I’m rooting for “chord substitutions” to be the first one 

I’ve also posted this on facebook and have a lot of  feedback/topics. So far…chord substitutions is the “most mentioned” topic.