Both Kansas and Washington have a state music curriculum called Music Progressions. Â This year, KMTA asked me to compose some original sight reading pieces for levels 1-6. Â I have done this and 2010 tests will include these revised pieces. IÂ decided […]
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Hal Leonard has uploaded pdf samples and sound files of the Easy Hymn Solos series. To see a “Closer Look,” click on any of these book titles: Easy Hymn Solos Level 1 See PDF samples of: Doxology For the Beauty
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Jennifer Linn, the manager of the Hal Leonard educational piano department, has written an informative letter to interested teachers concerning the newly acquired distribution rights of the Faber materials.   In this letter, she explains a bit about how the Hal Leonard
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Hal Leonard now has the Piano Adventures and Faber catalogue items available in their online store. The books have a slightly different look since they have the new Faber logo and Hal Leonard logo on them. You can see the
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Hal Leonard has posted an official press release regarding the acquisition of distribution rights of the Fabers entire catalogue.  Most of these details I have already posted in this previous post, but here is one new comment by Hal Leonard
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By now you know that the Faber’s publications will be distributed by Hal Leonard. The Fabers have announced that you can be looking for updates to their PreTime and BigTime books soon. These should be incredible since they now have
New PA Teacher Support Line Read More »
Well, the word is out amongst the piano teaching boards. Effective December 7th, Hal Leonard will be the official distributor of Nancy and Randall Faber’s Piano Adventures series. They will begin working with the Hal Leonard staff to produce new
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I was pleasantly surprised to receive an email in my inbox from Hal Leonard about some great new Christmas sheets that are available (no, none of them are mine)! Even more exciting was how easy it is to navigate on their
New Releases for Christmas! Read More »
Kevin Costley, the composer for whom you may submit interview questions, has written a number of books and pieces for all levels of students. His most recent pieces include Summer Portraits and Turkey Talk. In this post, I wanted to
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Hot off the press! Contemporary Movie Hits contains intermediate arrangements of: Bella’s Lullaby Breaking Free Dawn Georgiana He’s a Pirate That’s How You Know (from Enchanted) I arranged Georgiana, Dawn, and That’s How You Know (my personal favorite). I sang this one
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The Great Fuzzy Event of 2026!
You will not believe what we released at this premier event! Four new Fuzzies solos, a new and FREE incentive program, summer ideas, new resources and so much more! Even the replay is super fun!
