"Rose" Titanic song is perhaps the most beautiful of all the music from the Titanic movie. Listen to the piano arrangement of "Rose" from Titanic in the video below:
This elegant piano arrangement captures the passionate beauty and rebellion of the young Rose, and the star-crossed love she and Jack share so briefly.
In line one, and throughout the piece, the melody has frequent ornaments which lend a bit of an Irish or Gaelic mood. Beautiful, very pleasurable to play, and not too hard to perfect, these small trills give the music a delicate feeling.
Notice how easily the left hand broken chords fit into the hand. If your student (or you) has an understanding of chords, then this arrangement will be a piece of cake!
Lots of easy octave chords, but also some 10ths, and long crossing-over left hand chords. These patterns are necessary for your progressing students to know.
Giving the music a bit of restlessness is the shifting meter. First we have 4 beats, then 6, then back to 4 again. This happens throughout the piece - genius, I think!
A little bit of octave work in the right hand, but not TOO MUCH, is a good stretch for your intermediate students.
Finally, at the top of the last page, "Rose" shifts from Dm to a totally unexpected key, F# minor. The melody imitates the swooping "Near, far, wherever you are," fragment of the main Titanic theme, then dies away...
This beautiful music is copyrighted, so my arrangement must be FOR SALE! I am sorry I cannot share it for free.
It's worth buying and learning. Playing carefully through this music masterpiece will carry both you and your listening audience far, far away.
All the first-year material I give my beginner students.
Piano keyboard sheets, scales, chords, note-reading exercises, and over 256 pages of music!
This beautiful song book for piano & voice "Esther, For Such a Time as This", available as a digital download, tells the riveting story of the time when Jews in ancient Persia faced a foe named Haman, and how a brave young queen risked her life to save her people.
A good choice for a singing story-teller, an operatic group, a short theater production, or a class of children!
This book is also available from Amazon as a paperback.
This book is available as a digital download from this site. Visit this page to see some free examples from the book.
It is also available from Amazon as a paperback!
This is the perfect easy start for little pianists.
And when they start reading white-key notes on the staff, this is a fun easy resource to say each week, "Choose a new black-key song at home this week and figure it out to show me next lesson!" They will be spending more time at the piano.
A perfect read aloud storybook
for little boys or girls.
The Adventures of Tonsta highlight the travels of a very young boy with a good heart, who goes about helping folk in trouble.
With a red cap on his head and a sack of tools slung over his shoulder, Tonsta seems to meet people in distress wherever he goes.
Lots of trolls in this book - including one who gives him a Christmas gift!
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