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Rainy Days and Mondays by the Carpenters. Pop songs can be hard!! Rhythms are challenging. And Pop is not composed to support an amazing piano solo! It is composed for a beautiful voice and a band supporting the voice. But we can make pop songs pretty and expressive. We just need to play with the arrangement. FYI this is not a perfect performance. It’s a teaching demo!

A great composition showing wrist rotation and proper balanced voicings between the hands. Such a beautiful reflective piece.

The studio. Just a quick look at the studio here in Lebanon, Ohio.

This is the Berlin Song composed by Ludivico Einaudi. An expressive piece using simple chords in the Key of C Major.

A beautiful song from a Miley Cyrus movie. Played much faster in the movie clip. I'm not sure whether I prefer it faster. The composition is beautiful for solo piano, which can be hard to find. The octaves with 3rds in the right hand are definitely challenging and the leaps in the left hand make you pay attention. Love playing this piece. It's not perfect yet, but I'm learning to live with "liv...

One of my all time Claude Debussy favorites. A perfectly do-able piece for the intermediate level student. Love the rubato approach and artistic freedom this piece allows.