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Glory to His Name is one of my favorite hymns. I play it frequently during the prelude at
our church.
This arrangement could easily be used for prelude or offertory.
I need to enter the dynamics before publishing this hymn arrangement.
See a sample below.
Hannah, my oldest grandaughter, likes to play soft songs with a flowing style.
So…I tried to write her a Christmas piano arrangement of O Little Town of Bethlehem with those ingredients.
I created these hymn arrangements for my students. They are able to play along with congregational singing with these straightforward arrangements or use the pieces for offertory or prelude.
Most of the songs are either C Major (where each hand is covering CDEFG) or Middle C Position (Thumbs share middle C)
There are ten arrangements (4 of the hymns are 2 pages long) but every hymn contains one verse and chorus.
Grace Greater
Jesus Loves the Little Children
Like a River
Nothing but the Blood
O Worship the King
Redeemed
Revive Us Again
Tell it to Jesus
Trust and Obey
Work for the Night
See the three samples below:
One of my readers recently asked for an arrangement of “Happy Birthday.”
Her church sings happy birthday to their church members.
She’s been needing an easy arrangement of this well-used song.
The arrangement is short but to the point 🙂
One of my daughter-in-laws recently searched for an easy arrangement of “Praise to the Lord the Almighty”.
She was going to play it in one of her brother’s wedding.
Neither one of us could turn up an easy arrangement of this song.
So, I decided to write an easy to learn arrangement for this hymn.
Tomorrow is the second and last one hour class for hymn playing this summer. The first class dealt with five part congregational style playing, phrasing and learning the different types of hymns/songs from the hymnal.
I will continue to develop my curriculum during this school year as I share the lessons with my students.
Tomorrow’s session will cover fill-in notes for the dotted quarter note, half note and dotted half note.
I’m in the beginning stage for working up a tutorial book for hymn playing. Here’s one of the many examples I will be sharing tomorrow.
The class is made up of my early intermediate to intermediate students.
(Keep in mind this project is still under construction).
Just as a reminder. The hymns in a hymnal are written for voice parts only. The pianist has to adapt the hymns to sound more piano-like.
Play the hymnal version vs. the revised version to feel the difference. The revised version should feel smoother and sound less mechanical.
All you’re doing is creating tied notes for the repeated alto notes and half note octaves for the left hand.
The timing of publication for this arrangement was good for me.
I needed the reminder of seeking God’s comfort…a place of quiet rest…near to the heart of God.
May this arrangement be used to encourage others.
Just finished creating an early advanced piano hymn solo entitled…”Near to the Heart of God”.
There is truly a place of quiet rest, a place of comfort sweet and a place of full release!
We can find peace and comfort if we stay “Near to the heart of God.”
Here’s a glance at the first page of this heart-felt arrangement. Take your time as you travel across the keys… with a message of hope.
I will publish this arrangement by June 9th 2025
When I first started out with my website, I didn’t always publish a youtube video for each arrangement.
So…I’m now creating youtube videos for the arrangements lacking a video.
Here are the first four…
What do these two hymns have in common? I just discovered it this week!
See note below this image of music…
FREE one page arrangement!
Click on the song title here: Precious Lord Take My Hand
