I just published an early advanced Christmas piano solo of “The First Noel” in the key of C Major.  This arrangement, containing two verses, would be easy to learn for the average church pianist.

The First Noel

Early advanced Christmas piano solo, 4 pgs. Approx. 1:57 min.

Price: $3.50

I plan to post a new advanced Christmas piano solo arrangement of “The First Noel” tomorrow.  This particular arrangement is also on my “Simply Christmas” Cd.   *The bell instrumentation will not be included in this arrangement.

Most of my arrangements on this CD were spontaneous… by ear.  It has been a challenge for me to put these songs into written form.  When I play by ear…I don’t always play correct/balanced harmony…so I”m forever grading/correcting myself as I see on paper what I really played.  (ouch!)

“The First Noel” has such a soothing melody.  I enjoyed putting this one down in writing 🙂

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I thoroughly enjoyed creating this advanced Christmas piano solo of “What Child is This”.

The style of this piece was greatly influenced by my exposure to Spanish classical music…especially in verse one…right hand broken arpeggios with left hand melody.  Enrique Granados was my favorite Spanish classical composer.

To be honest…I had a difficult time trying to figure out HOW to communicate the correct rhythm for the run in measure #35.  I know how it’s suppose to sound..but it’s another story trying to get that across to everyone else.  The run (in print)… played back the right way in my music program (Finale).

Hopefully…the following video of “What Child is This”… SHOULD be helpful.  I did include a few tips at the end of the video for the right hand run in measure #35.

Now that Thanksgiving is over…I will be working on the recording of my advanced piano solo of “What Child is This”….which will include tips for the long run on measure #35.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  I look forward to sharing this video with you soon.

I just posted another new late elementary piano arrangement of “Gesu Bambino“.   This Christmas piano solo was written for one of my very industrious late beginner students several years ago and I just discovered it in my pile of files 🙂

My student really enjoyed playing this piece because of the flowing texture.

Gesu Bambino

Late elementary Christmas piano solo, 2 & 3\4 pgs. Approx. length: 1:17

Price: $3.00

Just to let my church pianist readers know I just published a new advanced Christmas piano solo of  “What Child is This”.  I thoroughly enjoyed writing this Christmas piece!

 My  keyboard of 76 keys is used to record the complete audios of my arrangements but this particular arrangement contains a fast arpeggio run that  goes beyond the length of my keyboard.

So… a youtube video of this piano arrangement will be available sometime soon.

What Child is This?

Advanced sacred Christmas piano arrangement, 3 pgs. Youtube link below:

Price: $3.50

Here is a free easy choir arrangement of “O Little Town of Bethlehem”.   This is an easy two-verse arrangement for young girls and ladies’ SA group.

The young girls sing the first two lines of each verse and the ladies (soprano and alto) join on the third line.

Not a lot of prep time involved in learning this easy selection….allowing the singers to focus on the message.

I wrote this arrangement to go with the easy Christmas Program found at the following link:

The Christmas Story

Our church has REALLY been using “The Best of Ron Hamilton” vocal special book Volume One.  I just noticed that it’s on sale right now.

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Just to let my readers know that my arrangement of “O Little Town of Bethlehem” was just published today.

The arrangement is available in our online music store at the following link:

Advanced Piano Solos: O Little Town of Bethlehem

Or…purchase it directly below:

O Little Town of Bethlehem (Advanced Version)

Early advanced sacred piano arrangement, 3 pgs. Approx. length: 1:53

Price: $3.50