Just thought I would show you a peek of Allissa, one of my piano students, who I’m training to be a church pianist.

She is doing very well!  I write the songs for her to play at her level so she can already be getting “hands on” experience before she’s even playing out the hymnal. She has been doing some reading from the church hymnal.

In the following raw video…Allissa is practicing with a young girl’s group while the choir loft is being decorated for this Wednesday night’s annual Christmas play by the kids of our church.  Looking forward to the program!  Our youth Pastor’s wife writes a play for each year!  She is very talented!

I enjoyed arranging All Creatures of Our God and King.

What an uplifting hymn!  The author of this song, Saint Francis, is better known as Giovanni Bernardone.  He wrote over sixty hymns.

“At the age of 25 Bernardone left an indulgent life as a soldier, renounced his inherited wealth, and determined to live meagerly and to imitate the selfless life of Christ.”  Amazing Grace 366 Inspiring Hymn Stories for Daily Devotions by Kenneth W. Osbeck

This arrangement is written with the intermediate church pianist in mind.

All Creatures of Our God and King

Sacred intermediate piano solo, 3 pgs. 1:27 time length A nice piece year round but especially for Thanksgiving. An excellent competition piece as well!

Price: $4.00

I have had readers asking if I could combine all the early advanced to advanced Christmas arrangements that are currently in my online store.

All of these selections are also sold separately.  

So…here’s the Christmas piano collection as requested with a total of fourteen songs.

Christmas Piano Solo Collection

Early advanced to advanced sacred Christmas Piano Solos Fourteen songs! All of these songs are available individually too! Away in a Manger Medley I Heard the Bells O Come O Come Emmanuel O Holy Night Hark the Herald Angels Sing It Came Upon a Midnight Clear Manger Medley O Come All Ye Faithful O Little Town of Bethlehem Silent Night The First Noel What Child is This? While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night Who is He in Yonder Stall?

Price: $50.86

Price: $40.86

I’ve had customers requesting to purchase all of my Early advanced to advanced sacred Christmas piano solos that I have for sale in my online store.

This will be a printable book.

There are a total of fourteen early advanced to advanced pieces.

(with the exception of the Christmas Song (offsite product)

I’m attempting to create this Piano Christmas Collection right now.

Just wanted you all to know in case you were interested in doing the same type purchase.

Retail price for fourteen Christmas pieces is $50.85  minus a 20% discount…making it a total of $40.86

Here’s the Christmas-Piano-Price-List

Here’s a song that one of my piano students wrote two years ago that would make a great Thanksgiving special!

He’s a Wondrous Glorious God.  The sheet music can be found at the following link

https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/he-s-a-wondrous-glorious-god-digital-sheet-music/21881166

Warning!  Pause and reverse as needed for this short tutorial!

I felt prone to sit down at the piano yesterday and play several hymns to encourage my Mom who recently had a challenging week.

We miss Dad but will see him again in heaven.  I’m sharing the recording via youtube.

February 28, 2024  Update:

I am working on a “FREEBIE” for “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”  congregational style.  (Not intended for piano solo since it’s accompaniment style) Download it HERE

Our church LOVES to sing What a Friend We Have in Jesus!  As I was playing for them to sing last night, I thought, “I could just download and capture that part of our service and use it as a teaching tool.

So…You’ll have to listen to the two clips below and notice the instructions embedded in the clips.   These fill-in tips are only meant to be suggestions.

I know each church pianist has their own version of fillers but I thought I’d share a couple for you all to grab by ear.  Of course not every church pianist plays by ear so….I can create up to several of these fillers in written form once I hear from you all.  Please leave your fill-in requests below in the comment section so I can start creating a few in print for you!  🙂

Ah!  I’m hearing you all now!  I will see what I can do about sharing some of these fill-ins for “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”

I’m assuming most of you play this song in F Major…..right?

I’m trying to find a clamp on piano lamp for our grand piano at church.

I’ve looked on Amazon’s site thus far. (I like having the option to plug it in.)

Any church pianist have a suggestion for a good performing piano lamp of this nature?

The only downside to clamp on lamps…they block my view of the song leader and sometimes the special depending where they are on stage.

Hope you all enjoy playing this arrangement of No One Understands Like Jesus.  It’s the first arrangement I’ve written since my Dad passed away in June of 2022.

I thought my heart would ache too much to write after Dad’s passing but God has given me more compassion over the old hymns of the faith because they mean so much more now!

This particular advanced sacred piano solo is geared to the advanced church pianist.  I’ve included four long runs for the right hand.  Tip:  Practice the runs S_L_O_W until they begin to flow and then slowly insert the run into its surrounding measures until you’ve mastered each run.

No One Understands Like Jesus

Advanced sacred piano solo in the key of C Major. Includes: two verses and two choruses arranged by Jenifer Cook. This is the first piano arrangement Jenifer has written since her Dad passed away in June 2022. Jenifer found comfort in her dear Savior during this difficult time as she passionately played "No One Understands Like Jesus! He's a Friend beyond compare!"

Price: $4.95