Allowing your child to quit piano lessons before they are 18 almost always turns into a lasting regret for both parents and children.
Treat piano lessons as a fact of life, a daily thing like brushing teeth. It's good for the mind and the body and gives your kids a better chance at success.
If you run a venue, hotel, or have a living room that needs a grand piano, these guidelines will help you get a great instrument for the best price.
Buying a grand piano is a lot of fun, but if you're going to spend big money on a piano make sure you're not buying a glossy paint job with a rusty engine. Piano salesmen are just as bad as used car dealers.
Yamaha keyboards are great instruments and there's a simple trick to removing the keys for cleaning and/or repair.
How to remove the keys from your Yamaha S90 ES keyboard. Remove keys from other Yamaha keyboards with this information too.
Felicity Visic, Andrew Simmons, and Scot Ranney play the Captain's Bar at the Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong.
Scot is playing in Hong Kong in 2015 from July to New Years with Felicity Visic and Andrew Simmons.
Jazz and Cocktail Piano, small to medium sized bands with or without vocals.
Scot plays jazz piano in Vancouver, B.C., Bellingham, Seattle, Portland, and other cities on the west coast.
Extensive experience in leading house bands in upscale venues overseas in Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and other cities.
Scot's music is fun, professional, and memorable.
Jazz piano from Vancouver to Seattle to the Far East.
Bellingham, Washington, jazz pianist available for U.S. and overseas opportunities.
Scot plays solo jazz piano in Vancouver, B.C. and other parts of Canada, Bellingham, Seattle, Portland, and the surrounding area.
Specializes in jazz and cocktail piano, leading small to medium size jazz groups with vocals or without, in all types of venues for all occasions.
Photo Gallery of Scot Ranney's bands and other music endeavors.
Photos of Scot Ranney and jazz and other music related activities.
Oh Tannenbaum for Jazz Piano, Just in Time for Christmas!
"Oh Christmas Tree" sheetmusic for jazz piano.
Music Transcription and Lead Sheet Services
Professional lead sheet and music engraving since the 1980's. Scot has made thousands of lead sheets, transcriptions, charts, and score reductions for his bands and his clients projects. Source material for lead sheets is anything from old hand written charts to sheetmusic and score reductions to transcribing music from virtually any source.
All lead sheets and other music publishing is done with Sibelius software. Scot also offers personal Sibelius lessons and Sibelius tutorials.
Original post...
This arrangement of "Oh Christmas Tree" is an updated arrangement from 2012.
To save time, here's a link to a new post on LearnJazzPiano.com where I put the images and pdf:
https://www.learnjazzpiano.com/article/2019/12/08/oh-tannenbaum-for-jazz-piano/
A big part of making great music is engaging your audience.
All good music has something in common: the audience connects with it. Here are three simple tips to help you create the best music possible in any genre.
Don’t Mistake “Talent” (code for "I don't want to try.") for Focus and Desire
Talent is a word made up to help people feel good about not trying, and the reason usually is fear of failure.
Allowing your child to quit piano lessons before they are 18 almost always turns into a lasting regret for both parents and children.
Treat piano lessons as a fact of life, a daily thing like brushing teeth. It's good for the mind and the body and gives your kids a better chance at success.
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Music is the universal language of mankind. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Scot Ranney Live Stream Piano
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Chico's Paradise
Looking for Chico's music? Look no further. Download the Chico's Paradise live recording from the early 2000's.
An Hour of New Piano Music by Scot
More videos of Scot Ranney's music: play list 1, play list 2
Nord Stage2 EX
A perfectly awesome keyboard.
Scot's online jazz piano community, since 1995. Forums, questions answered, and a ton of unique jazz piano resources.
Scot's Scripts Web Development
Website, ecommerce, and general consultation. Since 1997. Have an idea? Anything can happen with custom web apps.
Original Sheet Music on Score Exchange
Solo piano sheet music arrangements of original compositions, Christmas music, Celtic classics, and more.
A story about Calvin and Hobbes, a memorial and look at what Calvin's last day might have been like.
Toilets that Flush, a Personal ReviewA review of the American Standard Siphonic Dual Flush Toilet
The Day of the Chin, or, Strangling Chickens and Yummy GribletsThe band accepts no one into the inner circle without an offering. Drinks are acceptable.
The Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery – Hong KongVisiting the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery is like walking into a kung fu movie inside a hidden Chinese mountain temple. Photos and directions.
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