My blogging has been sporadic at best for the past few weeks — I apologize! I have been spending every moment of my free time working on a project with a Christmas-related deadline. 🙂 I will be sharing more details about it later this month.
In the meantime, enjoy this video of my student playing a piece she recently composed. Rania is a very proficient composer. 🙂 Rania has composed pieces based on my “Prompts for Piano” eBook, although this particular piece was inspired by one of the composition assignments in the theory book of the Succeeding at the Piano method books. Rania LOVES using the pedal, as you’ll hear in her piece:
Rania first wrote out her piece using her own kind of made-up notation. After I heard her play the piece, I encouraged her to write it out on staff paper. After that, I notated the piece for her in Finale. She drew an illustration for the piece, which I scanned and inserted into the Finale file. I also like to save the completed score as a PDF and send it to the parents.
Rania enjoyed making the video, too, so that her family members that live outside of the state can see/hear her play!
This is spectacular! What a lovely overall project.
Sounds nice. What a cute little girl.
Thanks for sharing, Rania is very talented. And that smile at the end, so cute!
I’ve just started composing with students in the last few months, and they love it. I’m really impressed with their creativity too.
Loved it, and the smile at the end just made my day. Tell her to I look forward to her next piece.
What a nice composition, Rania. Helen Marlais would be proud;
So Cute! Lovely little tune – she can certainly work on this piece as she progresses.
WOW!! That was actually quite good for such a young girl! 🙂
It’s really inspiring of you, perhaps I could encourage my students to do the same thing ^^
Very talented!!
Well done!! What a cute little piece ! My students and I will be doing composition starting this coming new year. Thank you for inspiring us Joy [: