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I really like this gospel hymn that speaks of Jesus providing redemption.
What a great reminder of those who have trusted in Christ Jesus.
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.
Here’s another easy arrangement I wrote for one of my grandkids last school year.
This particular arrangement of “Saved! Saved!” was written for one of my grandsons who loves playing the hymns.
He was in level 2A lesson book by Nancy & Randy Faber when I assigned him this piece.
This arrangement of “it is Well” was written for one of my grandsons, Allen, who is ready for lesson book 2B by the Fabers.
Contents: Key of C Major, one verse & chorus with a nice full ending sound in the last couple of measures.
I wrote this arrangement of O Come All Ye Faithful for my oldest grandson.
Michael is in Lesson 3B by the Fabers if that helps you classify the level of this piece.
The intro and ending consists of a colorful, majestic chord progression.
The arrangement is in the key of G Major: one verse and chorus in addition to the intro & ending.
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).
Recently, one of my daughter-in-laws was searching for a piano arrangement of “Praise to the Lord the Almighty.”
She needed an easy enough level to learn in time to play for her brother’s wedding during the candle-lighting.
I searched and didn’t find a version she could learn in time. My answer….I wrote a fairly easy arrangement….knowing she could easily embellish on her own. I plan to publish this easy-to-play arrangement ASAP!
