Dan Coates Great Piano Christmas Hits PDF. The Professional Touch Series. An advanced-level book that contains 20 sophisticated Dan Coates arrangements. Fabulous Traditional Christmas music. Very playable yet well arranged. Fun to just sit down and play. The collection includes older carols and newer selections from holiday movies and contemporary artists.
These arrangements are really nice. Not so complex as to take forever to learn, but advanced enough to sound rich and full, with inner themes and harmonies and pleasantly unexpected rhythms and dissonances.
This piano music book contains syncopated rhythms and multi-octave music for the piano player with 5 or more years' experience playing. The syncopated rhythms are suggested in the header by the time signature but are presented as regular 8-th notes in the printing. The emphasis is not so much on chord structures (although some of the modern chords sounds are exciting) but rather on arpeggios and tonal flow. One could sing to the songs, but mostly they are arranged for instrumental playing. There are no words to the songs, but your audience will "sing along" even if in their heads.
Songs include:
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- Away in a Manger
- Carol of the Bells
- Deck the Hall
- The First Noel
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
- Joy to the World
- Merry Christmas, Darling
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
- Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Silent Night
- Sleigh Ride
- What Child is This?
- Winter Wonderland
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
- O Holy Night
- Little Town of Bethlehem
Format: PDF, 51 pages
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