Great Scores Sheet Music Blog

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We have yet another exciting piano piece by Charley Waitt. This time it’s a change of style, after the sweetly flowing Dreaming we are today presenting the stomping Rag Rock.

We have two videos, one for the original Level (Level R), and one for the easier Level 2 arrangement.

The sheet music for both versions is available for download here.

Enjoy!

Video for Level R (original version):

Video for Level 2 (easier version):

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We recently featured the mellifluous piano piece Dreaming by Charley Waitt.

At Great Scores we try and arrange our piano pieces to many different levels of ability (what we call our Levels), allowing as many people as possible to be able to play our pieces.

Today therefore we are featuring the easier Level 2 version of Dreaming. (If you want to watch a video performance of the original version then please click here).

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We have an exciting new Boogie Woogie piece for piano, entitled Grahame’s Grindhouse Boogie.

This is a follow up to our very popular Jerry Lee Lewis Boogie, and forms part of our 5 piece Great Scores Boogie Collection.

We offer the original arrangement, featured in our video, as well as two easier levels: 3.5 and 3.

Level 3.5 has the exact same right hand as the original level (Level R), but the left hand has been simplified to make it easier to play.

Level 3 has the same left hand as Level 3.5 but some of the harder parts in the right hand have also been simplified.

You can download all the different versions here.

Here is the video which also offers a few hints on how to play the harder bits:

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The first of our theory guides has arrived: The Great Scores Guide To Intervals.

We have made a video, that functions as an introduction to intervals and covers the very basics you need to know. Intervals can be a bit daunting to learn, so we thought we’d make it easier by introducing these to you with a video:

The guide itself consist of three separate parts (which you can purchase together at a reduced price or separately).

Part 1: The full 21 page guide to intervals, explaining anything you’ll need to know about intervals, including:

• how to recognise them,
• the difference between major, minor, diminished and augmented intervals,
• tricks and tipps on how to work out intervals
• an extensive list of the opening of famous tunes with which to associate intervals so that you can recognise them easier
• intervals larger than an octave and unusual intervals such as double diminished intervals explained
• enharmonic intervals explained
• inverted intervals explained
• the tritone (the devil’s interval/diabolus in musica) explained and demystified

Part Two: 18 pages of worksheets with answers. Especially useful if you are doing music exams or ABRSM theory exams and you need to practice a bit more .

Part Three: our 15 page Interval-Finder: a compendium of all basic intervals (major, minor, augmented and diminished) in all 12 keys, in case you ever get stuck or need a quick reference.

We hope you enjoy our guide.

Lincoln Jaeger

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We’d like to feature one of our writers, Charley Waitt, through a performance of his composition Dreaming.

This is a beautifully atmospheric piano piece, the sheet music for which is available here. We offer this composition in two different levels of ability, so if you think the version on the video is too hard, try Level 2 (the video for which we will also be featuring soon).

Enjoy!

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I thought I’d do a quick blog about the phenomenal rise and rebirth of the tune Don’t Stop Believin’ by the band Journey.

Originally released in 1981 on the album Escape it peaked at number 9 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

Then, on December 22, 2009, it got to the No.9 spot in the charts after it had been used in that ubiquitous music TV show of our time: The X Factor (TV series), as well as being featured in The Sopranos and ultimately in the current hot property of TV shows: Glee.

We do of course offer the sheet music for Don’t Stop Believing from Glee for guitar, vocals and piano.

Here is a clip of a live performance: