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(Use the “Full screen” button on the video player to make it bigger) Click here to print or download the sheet music Usually in piano music, the right hand is written in treble clef and the left hand is written in bass clef. However, the left hand changes to treble clef at measure 41. So […]

(Use the “Full screen” button on the video player to make it bigger) Click here to print or download the sheet music The trick to playing measures 17-23 is to play the same thing over and over and just keep moving one to the left. Another tip, for measures 53-60, the right hand and left […]

(Use the “Full screen” button on the video player to make it bigger) Click here to print or download the sheet music This song is built on a classic “Surfer” bass line. If you don’t have a piano with 88 keys, you can move the left hand up one octave at measure 1. Your left […]

(Use the “Full screen” button on the video player to make it bigger) Click here to print or download the sheet music The rhythm in measures 1-4 is difficult. I had to slow these four measures down and practice each hand separately. This part is used a lot throughout the song, so you want to […]

(Use the “Full screen” button on the video player to make it bigger) Click here to print or download the sheet music If a note has a dot above it, or below it, that tells you to “make the note short and detached.” These types of short notes are called staccato notes. For the introduction, […]

(Use the “Full screen” button on the video player to make it bigger) Click here to print or download the sheet music This song starts easy and gets progressively harder as you go through the song. The section starting at measure 57 is the most complex. This song has a lot of syncopation, which means […]

(Use the “Full screen” button on the video player to make it bigger) Click here to print or download the sheet music The most difficult section: The left hand during the measure 25 section, and the transition between measure 32 and measure 33. Sustain Pedal: This songs doesn’t really need any sustain pedal. To make […]

(Use the “Full screen” button on the video player to make it bigger) Click here to print or download the sheet music Look at the left hand part at measure 21. You’ve got stems pointing up and down on the same staff. Composers write this way when they want you to do two things at […]

(Use the “Full screen” button on the video player to make it bigger) Click here to print or download the sheet music When I first started writing this song, it had a “hard rock” feel to it. I don’t listen to a lot of hard rock, so I decided to tone it down a little. […]

Click here to print or download the sheet music This song has what I call “Pop Rhythms” starting at measure 10 in the right hand. These rhythms look really complex and they can be difficult to count. However, you can learn them much faster if you just listen and imitate. Sometimes it’s easier to just […]