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NOVEMBER 12

TECHNIQUE AND THEORY

BASIC TECHNIQUE PRACTICE CHART

Choose one key. For example: C Major

Practice the elements on the right column.

Then practice all three diminished chords:
Starting with C
Starting with C#
Starting with D
​C Major scale
C Major arpeggio
C Major chord and all inversions
C minor chord and all inversions
C7 (C Major chord + minor 7) and all inversions
CM7 (C Major chord + Major 7) and all inversions
Cm7 (C minor chord + minor 7) and all inversions
C dim (C diminished chord) and all inversions
 in this order​After you have practiced C Major and you feel comfortable, we will add the following keys:
G Major (F#), D Major (F#+C#), A Major (F#+C#+G#), F Major (Bb)
COMPLETE BOOK OF SCALES
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MAJOR AND MINOR CHORDS

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DIMINISHED CHORDS

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Chords with 7th (four-note chords)

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Keeping your eyes on the score.
New short exercises in C position

Single notes
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Fully written.  Piano Man

NOVEMBER 12
Try also playing just the chords, no melody. Sing the melody instead.
  1. As block chords, no worry about which is the top note, just keep chord changes close to each other, minimum jumps​
  2. Broken chords as bass+chord+chord. 
  • The song is very recognizable the way you play it.  Slow but mostly steady. Some pauses could be reduced by thinking ahead while playing the present
  • PIANO MAN -easy version-
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    Stand by Me / Country Roads / If I Were a Rich Man

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    OK to give it a break. Maybe This Time (from Cabaret)

    OCTOBER 29
    Actually, you play everything correctly.  All the chords, even the complex ones, are good.
    Naturally, because these chords are complex, you are playing it very slowly.
    Maybe This Time from Cabaret
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    Familiar pieces for easy piano:
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    ​Morning (from Peer Gynt) by Grieg
    NEW: Largo (from the New World Symphony) by Dvorak

    OCTOBER 29
    MORNING
    Wrist up, shoulder down.  Seating position. See video below
    LARGO
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    Fully written.  The Windmills of Your Mind

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    IN PROGRESS Fully written.  New York, New York

    JULY 16
    When we focus on measures with syncopation:
    • Visualize how the song sounds like, and hum or sing it.
    • Use a blend of counting and also intuition. More intuition for complex counting sections, as if you were playing it by ear.
    • Keep the LH notes simple when necessary. Just the "structural" notes (the first notes of every measure are enough
    • If you want to resolve the counting, try subdividing to the eighth note
    NEW YOUR NEW YORK easy piano
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    "Romanze" from Sonatina in G by Beethoven

    JUNE 25
    Excellent playing, following the pulse without the help of the metronome.
    Beethoven Sonatina SECTIONS.pdf
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    NEW: Song for Phoebe (no title yet)

    Song for Phoebe. DRAFT 3/28/2024
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    SONGS

    Blueberry Hill

    Blueberry Hill MAY 7
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    JUNE 4
    Two techniques available here:
    1- Broken 5th plus chord 
    2- "broken chord" like a small arpeggio with the LH. I recommend that you add an extra note at the end, which would be the same note as the first, duplicated one octave higher

    Don't let the sun catch you crying

    SCORE UPDATED October 3
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    JUNE 4
    Keep in ming the broken 5th are now 8th notes, so they go as fast as the melody, which is also 8th notes.
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    On a clear day

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    January 16
    Yes, you can use two different values on the bass-chord format:
    ​1- play the bass as half-note and the chords as half-note.  the result is more relaxed.
    2- Play the bass as quarter-note and the chord as dotted half-note.  The result is a bot more upbeat (this is the arrangement you are naturally applying).
    Which arrangement would I apply?  I myself I would do the half-note arrangement to Gove the song a more relaxed ballad sound.
    Nevertheless, the idea here is that you learn to do both,. so while you are playing the song, sometimes apply to the bass the half note values, sometimes apply the quarter-note value.  This way you will be versed in both.
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    More songs added October 12. (look at them and start with those that are familiar)

    Bewitched

    November 21
    ​Let's start with block chords rather than bass and chord format.
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    My Favorite Things

    January 2
    Bringing it back into shape:
    1. melody alone
    2. chords alone
    3. RH melody, LH single note
    4. Hands together LH as blocks
    5. HT LH bass-chord
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    How High the Moon

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    There Will Never Be Another You

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    Alice in Wonderland

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    Easy to Love

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    IN PROGRESS: "FUR ELISE" by Ludwig van Beethoven
    The original version

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    Take the "A" Train

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    Satin Doll

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    44 Amazing Grace

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    "Hotel California"

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    HOTEL CALIFORNIA January-4 with SOLO
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    138 Greensleeves

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    "Bye Bye Blackbird" p. 75

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    "Getting to Know You" p.130 

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    "Rock a Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" p. 317

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    "2nd Hand Rose" p. 325​

    MAY 7
    REMINDER: Play the same chords in the measures that have no chord symbols, using the same system (bass chord for example)
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    "I Left my Heart in SF" p. 325​

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    MARCH 19
    We refined a bit talking about specific places where we are spreading the notes on LH.  Remember the two options:
    1- Fast notes (more difficult) as if they were 8th notes.  Better for matching a melody that has 8th notes
    2- Slower notes (easier) as if they are quarter notes.  Better for a melody that has quarter notes.

    "On the Street Where You Live" p.285

    On the Street Where You Live
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    "Wouldn't it be Loverly" p.436

    Wouldn't it be loverly
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    "Younger than Springtime" p. 447

    Younger than Springtime
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    "The Show of Your Smile"

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    OLD REVIEW: "Yesterday"

    OLD REVIEW: "I could write a book"

    IT HAD TO BE YOU

    NEW SCORE OF "IT HAD TO BE YOU" WITH SIMPLIFIED RHYTHM
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    IT HAD TO BE YOU marked March-9
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    real_book_it_had_to_be_you.pdf
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    IT HAD TO BE YOU with GRB notes and changes
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    IT HAD TO BE YOU with BASS-CHORD color coding
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    JAZZ FAKE BOOK

    JAZZ FAKE BOOK
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    EARL SELECTIONS fakebook
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    446 You'll Never Walk Alone

    YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE
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    305 Put on a Happy Face

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    406 Unforgettable

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    422 What a Wonderful World

    WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD October-5 version
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    247 Some Enchanted Evening

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    Summertime.

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    SUMMERTIME -INTUITIVE CHORDS-
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    119 Fly Me to the Moon

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    138 Greensleeves

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    59 Bill Bailey

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    59_bill_baley_GABRIEL MARKINGS.pdf
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    As Long as He Needs Me

    ​March 7
    Chords are all fine
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    Who Will Buy

    March 7
    Chords are all fine
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    Old Man River

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    March 19
    When the melody is playing one of the notes of the chord, just feel free to drop any notes that coincide with the melody

    364 Strangers in the Night

    PENDING
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    383 That's Life

    PENDING
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    176 If Ever I Would Leave You

    176 If Ever I Would Leave You
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    145 Hello Dolly

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    153 I Could Have Danced All Night

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    Somewhere (West Side Story)

    SOMEWHERE. melody and chord symbols
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    SOMEWHERE. melody and broken chord
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    Tonight (New version in C Major)

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    BORN FREE

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    Classical review: DANCE by James Hook.

    12/1
    ​Sounds like you still think of the LH as individual notes rather than a chord concept played note-by-note.  No worries, we will eventually develop that ability.

    Song review: ALL OF ME

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    Irving Berlin's "ALWAYS"

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    ALWAYS study chart with LH written chords
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    THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME (transposed to F Major)

    THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME with lyrics
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    THEY CAN'T original E-flat
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    THEY CAN'T TAKE melody + symbols
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    THEY CAN'T TAKE melody + symbols + LH written out
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    Pieces already worked on:

    DUNCOMBE Sonatina p 57
    ​BEETHOVEN German Dance p.89
    DIABELLI Bagatelle p 98
    DUNCOMBE Fanfare p 55
    JAMES HOOK Dance p 58
    Ecossaise p ?
    p96 GERMAN DANCE by L. van Beethoven
    FUR ELISE
    p76    MINUET by W.A. Mozart (in F Major)
    p57.  Sonatina  by William Duncombe
    MINUET by Lully    PASSED
    MINUET IN G
    CAREFREE P. 59
    MINUET by Leopold Mozart
    earl_steinberg_recital_program.pdf
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    How High the Moon
    Someday My Prince Will Come
    ​The Shadow of Your Smile
    ​Michelle
    ​Yesterday
    ​Let It Be
    ​A Fine Romance
    ​I Could Write a Book
    ​Don't Get Around Much Anymore
    Autumn Leaves
    MOON RIVER
    SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW.  Level 3
    OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING
    SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW.  Level 3
    EDELWEISS
    HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONG
    TURK Arioso
    MOZART minuet p 69
    real-book_i_could_write_a_book.pdf
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    real-book_i_could_write_a_book.pdf
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    real-book_how_high_the_moon.pdf
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    LET IT BE
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    YESTERDAY
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    MICHELLE blank
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    someday_my_prince_will_come.pdf
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    DANCE James Hook -score-
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    dance_with_modified_lh.pdf
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    fanfare.pdf
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    -real_book-_someday_my_prince_will_come.pdf.pdf
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    real_book_105_the_days_of_wines_and_roses.pdf
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    diabelli-bagatelle.pdf
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    Future songs and pieces:

    NUMBER? ​All in love is fair (check difficulty)
    427 They can't take that away from me (in E-flat)
    Transpose to G Major
    105 DAYS WINE AND ROSES in F Major


    DUNCOMBE. Sonatine.  page 57


    THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA (Chorus only)

    12/8
    Very difficult song to play, even for professionals.
    ​Still in the stage of set-up by playing the melody and the chords, and paying attention to the flats and sharps.  Some chords are difficult.​
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    GIRL IPANEMA chord replacement
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    COLE PORTER.  Choices of songs:

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    320 Night and Day

    I LOVE PARIS
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    I LOVE YOU
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    I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN
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    MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY
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    YOU'D BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO
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    Working on Night and Day 320

    Real Book NIGHT AND DAY
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    Beethoven.  GERMAN DANCE (page 93)

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    BACH/PEZOLD Minuet p 22

    ​BEETHOVEN German Dance p 89

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    DUNCOMBE Sonatine p 57

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    "Arabesque" by F. Burgmuller p 104

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    "Innocence" by F. Burgmuller

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    "Minuet in G minor" by Petzold
    page 26 in your book "Beginning Piano Solos"

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    "Enchantment" by Howard Hanson
    page 142 in your book "Beginning Piano Solos"

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    "Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover" by Paul Simon
    Reading straight from a lyric chord chart

    50_ways_to_leave_your_lover.pdf
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    "Dance" by Bela Bartok
    page 121 in your book "Beginning Piano Solos"

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    "Polka" by Michael I. Glinka
    page 103 in your book "Beginning Piano Solos"

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    "Morning Song" by Cornelius Gurlitt

    GURLITT Morning Song
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    "Pastorale" by F. Burgmuller

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    "La Candeur" by F. Burgmuller

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    "I Don't Know How to Love Him" by Andrew L. Webber

    I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM easy piano
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    "Send in the Clowns" by S. Sondheim

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    "Little Piece" by Robert Schumann
    page 112 in your book "Beginning Piano Solos"

    SCHUMANN little piece
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    "Impossible Dream" from Man of LaMancha

    March 19
    This is a great case of "spreading the chords", but fully written out, in which you can see what does it look like to spread the notes and match them with the melody.
    YES, you can continue playing the chords plays the notes of the left hand.
    Remember that you should not play the notes that are tied to the previous note.  Those notes you just hold them
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    "Minuet" by W.A. Mozart
    Page 68 in the book

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    "Hunting Horns with Echo" by Daniel Turk
    Page 62 in the book

    Hunting Horns with Echo
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    "Country Dance" by L. van Beethoven
    Page 87 in the book

    beethoven_country_dance_p87.pdf
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    "MUSETTE" by J.S. BACH
    Page 18 in the book

    musette.pdf
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    DONE: "Sonatina Nr. 1 in C Major" Op. 36 by Clementi

    SONATINA with Gabriel notes JANUARY 23
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    CLEMENTI Sonatina
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    Songs added December 5

    "Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah"

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    December 19
    All three songs you can play very well with the simple chord system and also with the bass-chord arrangement. 
    Here is a graphic to guide you on how I would place the bass and chord in this song:
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    "Frosty the Snowman" p. 127

    frosty_the_snow_man_real_book_-simplified_chords.pdf
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    "Let it Snow" p. 213

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    color coded
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    199 Jingle Bell Rock

    JINGLE BELL ROCK simplified (with LH example)
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    December 19
    Jingle Bell Rock, and any other song that may feel newer to you can quickly and easily be played by playing the melody with the RH, and then the LH playing only the bass note (the note indicated by the letter symbol above the melody) with a single note.
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