Piano Solo for Early Intermediate

By Bart Howard

Arrangement by Susan Staples Bell, ASCAP

Educational Series.

Are you new to playing Jazz? This pack from Susan Staples Bell?s Educational Series comes with lots of extra information!

-You Gotta Know the Score! a lesson on the elements of Jazz and the ones included in this arrangement.

-a Lead Sheet. The original melody and chord symbols

-It?s All About the Chords. What are the chords used in this arrangement and how can you use them to create your own version?!

-Put it All Together. Here is the arrangement, specially crafted for you!

The arrangement is specifically written to be accessible and instructive for Piano Students as an introduction to the Swing Jazz Style. Careful thought was given to hand position changes, interval reaches, and easier jazzy rhythms. Including elements of Jazz like Swing style eighth notes, jazz chord harmonies, written out improvisational solo section, cool left hand walking bass line, and punctuation chords.

Time length. (01:50). Piano Solo for Early Intermediate students. Super fun song! Great for recitals!

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Also, selected pieces are now available on JW Pepper for a print option and SuperScore for Ipad.

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Here?s how to play ?Take Me Home, Country Roads? by John Denver on piano!

With this easy piano sheet music, you can play ?Country Roads? on piano.

I created a more challenging arrangement as well - you can find it here: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21148082

This here is an easy piano arrangement in the song?s original key of A major. It comes with a seperate system for the singer, the full lyrics and chords.

However, the whole melody is included in the piano part as well, so it sounds great when played without any singing, too!

Of course, you can use these piano sheets to accompany someone as well, or sing along yourself!

In any case, it?s a ?Take Me Home, Country Roads? piano version which is not too hard to play, and sounds fantastic.

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (also known as simply "Country Roads") first appeared on John Denver?s 1971 album "Poems, Prayers and Promises" and became one of his signature songs, as well as one of the most famous country songs of all time!

Time to play some country music on piano!

Here are the full lyrics to "Country Roads":

"Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
All my memories gather round her
Miner's lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
I hear her voice, in the morning hour she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
And driving down the road I get a feeling
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
Take me home, down country roads
Take me home, down country roads"

My easy arrangement for PIANO SOLO of "TEAHOUSE MOON" by ENYA.
JAM MUSIC APPROACH is the easy way to approach a song. Musicians of every kind deserve the possibility toexperience and to be at ease with their improving performance. In some song ,to reach this purpose i choose to give right hand - melodic line and left hand - arpeggios!

ENJOY!!