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    • Background pianist
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Group piano lessons can create ensemble performances AND provide individualized skill development with multi-level Piano Band arrangements.  

Part A plays just the melody across both hands--a great way to introduce the song to the entire class.  Part B has RH playing melody and LH playing a single bass note.  Advancing players can move up to Part C with a “realized” lead sheet where they begin to feel like they are creating what one of my students called “REAL music!"  Part D uses  broken chord patterns to fill out the ensemble sound.  Part E is appropriate for the teacher OR your most precocious student.  
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The collection includes many well-known songs from movies, TV, and radio.  Feel confident  buying these legal arrangements which properly pay copyright holders their due.   
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ABOUT JIM

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Jim Lansing is a self-taught pianist who enjoys accompanying choirs, casts, and congregations.  He has formal training on the organ and has worked as a church musician since high school including 9 years employed as a church Music Director/Organist and numerous Interim and Freelance positions.  Jim accompanied his first musical in college and has since played over 70 productions. 

Jim is an experienced piano teacher with a distinct Pop Music point of view.  He served on the MMTA (MN Music Teachers’ Association) Popular Styles Committee, helped launch the Popular Styles curriculum program, and curated the repertoire for the educational series and its exams.  Jim taught private lessons at his home studio, as a traveling teacher, online, and group lessons both at home and at community music schools.  He presently teaches at Farmhouse Music Studio, Lakeville, MN, and Shattuck-St. Mary's School, Faribault, MN.  
 
Jim currently resides in the Twin Cities, MN, area.

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  • Home
    • Hear Jim play
    • Gallery / Videos
  • Projects
    • Piano Band
    • Solos: Leveled
      • Late Elementary
      • Early Intermediate
    • Duets: Leveled
      • Late Elementary
      • Early Intermediate
      • Late Intermediate+
    • Jim's Arranging Philosophy
  • Gigs
    • Accompanist
    • Musical Theatre
    • Background pianist
    • Church musician