My father listened to me as I told him all about my frustrations, then he suggested I try something different. He recommended taking the easiest children's song I could think of and arranging a simple piece - which I did. I chose the song "I've got the Joy Joy Joy Joy" by George Willis Cooke.
My Dad must have been in a ragtime mood because when I showed him my arrangement he challenged me to write something worthy of a ragtime pianist at Disneyland. I took his challenge and began to play around with it on the piano until I knew how I wanted it to sound. After that, the notes came easily and in twenty minutes I had finished my first ragtime piano duet.
I hope you enjoy-joy-joy-joy this arrangement!
Here's my arrangement:
20091024-I've_got_the_Joy_(Arranged_by_Amy_Mack).pdf
You might enjoy reading and trying to keep up with the lyrics here.
(Right-click on the link below to save the mp3 file to your computer.)
Discussion/Comments (5):
You're doing so well Amy!
Posted at 10/24/2009 21:52:34 byWendy
Very cool! And you didn't even need a Mac for that. Wow.
Posted at 10/28/2009 0:08:18 byMichael Sampson
Good job with the arrangement. One question -does the second pianist reach around the first pianist to get to the very high and very low octaves?
Keep up the good work,
Mrs. Teffeteller
Posted at 01/14/2010 21:54:33 byMrs. Teffeteller
Do you have the piano music for the Joy song?
Posted at 08/24/2010 7:52:51 byRalph
We included the piano music in the link above but here it is again. Enjoy playing!
-Amy
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Posted at 08/31/2010 10:23:26 byAmy Mack
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