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Elmo Peeler Note-for-Note Piano Transcriptions

Dear Elmo,


Today is the first day of January 2025 and time again for my monthly newsletter, to keep you informed of recent transcriptions and other news of the last month. Happy New Year!

Ian Stewart - Master of Boogie-Woogie

(& co-founder of the Rolling Stones)

I have three new transcriptions this month, including a truly wonderful boogie-woogie piano part on the Rolling Stones classic "Dead Flowers" - Ian Stewart at his boogie-ing best.


Also new this month is another boogie - "Boot Scootin' Boogie" by Brooks & Dunn, played by excellent pianist/composer John Barlow Jarvis.


And to slow things down - way down, with a tempo of 50 BPM - is a slow blues gem by Fran Cisko, a very talented Argentinian player who sounds like he grew up in the Mississippi Delta blues country.


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Elmo Peeler


About Elmo Peeler Sheet Music

ALL of the Sheet Music listed on my website has been personally transcribed by me, and guaranteed to be note-for-note perfect.

Whether you:

  • have a cover band and want to get your keyboard parts exactly correct,
  • are a professional who wants to study the styles of rock's greatest keyboard players, or
  • are a hobbyist that wants to learn how to play pop/rock and great piano music,

    ...these note-for-note transcriptions will prove extremely helpful.

And as always, if you ever need any help, just drop me a note at: elmo@manymidi.com

In the News! - The Rolling Stones

Ian Stewart - co-founder & pianist for the Rolling Stones

Ian Stewart, often called Stu, was born in Scotland in 1938, and started playing piano when he was six.


Stewart loved rhythm & blues and big-band jazz, but loved boogie-woogie most of all.


Working as a shipping clerk at a London chemical company, he was the first to respond in May 1962 to Brian Jones's advertisement in Jazz News seeking musicians to form a rhythm & blues group. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards joined in June, and the group played their first gig under the name the Rollin' Stones at the Marquee Club on 12 July 1962.

Ian Stewart & his band, the Rolling Stones


Keith Richards described meeting Stewart: "He used to play boogie-woogie piano in jazz clubs, apart from his regular job. He blew my head off too, when he started to play. I never heard a white piano player play like that before."


In early May 1963, the band's manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, said Stewart should no longer be onstage, that six members were too many for a popular group and that the older, burly, and square-jawed Stewart did not fit the image. He said Stewart could stay as road manager and play piano on recordings. Stewart accepted this demotion. Richards said: "[Stu] might have realised that in the way it was going to have to be marketed, he would be out of sync, but that he could still be a vital part. I'd probably have said, Well fuck you', but he said 'OK, I'll just drive you around.' That takes a big heart, but Stu had one of the largest hearts around."


Stewart loaded gear into his van, drove the group to gigs, replaced guitar strings and set up Watts's drums the way he himself would play them. He also played piano and occasionally organ on most of the band's albums in the first decades, as well as providing criticism. Shortly after Stewart's death Mick Jagger said: "He really helped this band swing, on numbers like 'Honky Tonk Women' and loads of others. Stu was the one guy we tried to please. We wanted his approval when we were writing or rehearsing a song. We'd want him to like it."

Ian Stewart - "Dead Flowers"

Stewart contributed piano, organ, electric piano and/or percussion to most Rolling Stones albums released between 1964 and 1986. He played piano on numbers of his choosing throughout tours in 1969, 1972, 1975–76, 1978 and 1981–82. Stewart favored blues and country rockers, and remained dedicated to boogie-woogie and early rhythm & blues. He refused to play in minor keys, saying: "When I'm on stage with the Stones and a minor chord comes along, I lift me ands in protest."


Stewart remained aloof from the band's drug abuse and partying lifestyle. "I think he looked upon it as a load of silliness," said guitarist Mick Taylor. "I also think it was because he saw what had happened to Brian. I could tell from the expression on his face when things started to get a bit crazy during the making of Exile on Main Street. I think he found it very hard. We all did."

Stewart played golf, and as road manager showed a preference for hotels with courses. Richards recalls: "We'd be playing in some town where there's all these chicks, and they want to get laid and we want to lay them. But Stu would have booked us into some hotel about ten miles out of town. You'd wake up in the morning and there's the (golf) links. We're bored to death looking for some action and Stu's playing Gleneagles."


In early December 1985 while the Stones were recording Dirty Work, Stewart began having respiratory problems. On December 12 he went to a clinic to have the problem examined, but suffered a massive heart attack and died in the waiting room. He was 47 years old.


At the very end of the album they included a 30-second clip of Stewart playing the blues standard "Key to the Highway". And when the Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, they requested that Stewart's name be included. In his 2010 autobiography Life, Keith Richards says: "Ian Stewart. I'm still working for him. To me The Rolling Stones is his band. Without his knowledge and organisation... we'd be nowhere."


Here are my Rolling Stones transcriptions:


The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers - Ian Stewart, piano - NEW!

The Rolling Stones - 2120 South Michigan Avenue - Ian Stewart, organ

The Rolling Stones - Around and Around - Ian Stewart, piano

The Rolling Stones - Cool, Calm and Collected - Jack Nitzsche, piano

The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women (Live) - Chuck Leavell, piano

The Rolling Stones - Key to the Highway - Ian Stewart piano solo

The Rolling Stones - Loving Cup - Nicky Hopkins, piano

The Rolling Stones - She's a Rainbow - Nicky Hopkins, piano

The Rolling Stones - Shine a Light - Billy Preston, piano

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil - Chuck Leavell, piano

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil - Nicky Hopkins, piano

January's New Transcriptions - "Dead Flowers" & "Boot Scootin' Boogie"

plus a Slow Piano Blues

Ian Stewart playing with the Rolling Stones in 1975

The Rolling Stones recorded "Dead Flowers" in 1970 with Ian Stewart, one of their founders, on the piano, and released it in 1971 on their "Sticky Fingers" album.


Although the song didn't become as famous as two other tracks on that album, "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses", it has a terrific piano track. This is a note-for-note transcription of Ian Stewart's entire piano part - all 131 measures - which was classic boogie-woogie, his very favorite piano style.

Starting around 50 seconds into the recording, Stewart breaks into a full-blown boogie-woogie left hand that can not be heard in the final mix - but it is there in spades for the entire rest of the recording. Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Meade 'Lux' Lewis would've been proud of Stewart's contribution to the track.


I transcribed this from the equivalent of a multi-track, which allowed for every piano note to be heard clearly - including all the 'crushed' notes, the tremolos, lots of 6ths & 3rds, and the boogie left hand itself, of course.

My second new transcription this month is of the piano solo in Brooks & Dunn's version of "Boot Scootin' Boogie", included on their smash debut album, Brand New Man, which sold 7,000,000 copies - seven-times Platinum. They used one of Nashville's best session pianists, John Barlow Jarvis, to lay down an excellent piano solo in the up-tempo country classic.

My third new transcription this month is of an excellent slow blues video posted onto YouTube by a talented Argentinian, Fran Cisko, who sounds like he was raised in the Mississippi Delta. It's appropriately titled "Hot Piano Blues Solo!" (with the exclamation mark).


Although it's nice and slow (50 BPM), a lot of fast, bluesy runs and blues licks are included along with excellent left hand chord voicings. If you like blues piano, you'll love this wonderful performance - and perhaps learn some new licks and chord voicings. My transcription also includes the bass guitar part.

My new transcriptions:


The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers - Ian Stewart, piano - NEW!

(click here to listen)

(click here to listen to Ian Stewart's isolated piano track with just vocals)


Brooks & Dunn - Boot Scootin' Boogie - Piano Solo - John Barlow Jarvis, piano - NEW!

(click here to listen)

(click here to hear the isolated piano track during the solo)


Fran Cisko - Hot Piano Blues Solo! - Piano & Bass - NEW!

(click here to listen & watch on YouTube)

An Oldie-but-a-Goodie Exercise - R&B/Gospel Elements & Substitutions

Billy Preston/Richard Tee Styles

I was busy last month transcribing and teaching and didn't have time to create a new exercise, so here is a gem that you may have overlooked.


My "R&B-Gospel Elements Exercise, including Substitutions" demonstrates several R&B/Gospel techniques used by Billy Preston and Richard Tee.


This 10-bar exercise demonstrates the two most important chord substitutions in R&B, gospel, rock and blues. Richard Tee used them so much they helped to define his sound.


It also demonstrates how a "Hendrix chord" can be used instead of a regular dominant V7.


And it shows how to set up a V7 chord by means of a flat-VI 9th chord.


Plus, it further illustrates an important Left Hand Gospel pattern along with Billy Preston-style chordal walk-downs.

Richard Tee - R&B player extraordinaire

If you want to learn more about Gospel & R&B, this exercise combines a lot of good, important elements into a 10-bar phrase - plus, it's a lot of fun to play.


BTW, if you need other good, effective technical exercises, please check out all of the 116 exercises 

available.)

Elmo Peeler - R&B-Gospel Elements Exercise, incl. Substitutions - Billy Preston-Richard Tee Styles

(to listen to it, click here)

Gospel Corner - Say 'Amen' Somebody

The Hangout Place for Gospel Classics

You don't have to be from the Deep South to love Gospel piano, nor do you need to belong to any particular religion. All you have to have is a love for wonderful old-time, swinging, uplifting piano-playing.


Leon Russell, Billy Preston, Richard Tee and Ray Charles, some of the greatest keyboard players ever, loved the style and infused their own performances with Gospel licks and rhythms.


Inspired by the wonderful playing of the portly Associate Pastor/Musical Director of my childhood's Baptist Church deep in the piney woods of Mississippi, in recent years I've transcribed and/or arranged a few Gospel classics.


This little corner of my newsletter is where I'll keep you informed of my latest efforts to share that old-time Gospel sound.


Here are my Gospel transcriptions and/or arrangements, plus some exercises:


Full-blown Gospel:


The Doobie Brothers - "World Gone Crazy" (Piano Intro) (click here to hear it)

Billy Preston & The Beatles - "Without a Song" (click here to hear it)

"I'll Fly Away" - arranged by Elmo Peeler (click here to hear it)

"Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" - arranged by Elmo Peeler (click here to hear it)

"Amazing Grace" - as played by Ethel Caffie-Austin (click here to hear it)

"Victory in Jesus" - as played by The Gaithers (click here to hear it)


Heavily Gospel Influenced:


Richard Tee - Contemporary Piano - First Piece

Floyd Cramer - "One Day at a Time (Sweet Jesus)"

Don Henley - "You Don't Miss Your Water"

Mavis Staples - "Hard Times Come Again No More"

Van Morrison - "Benediction"

Richard Tee - "Happy Birthday" (version 1)

Richard Tee - "Happy Birthday" (version 2)

Jeff Beck Group (Nicky Hopkins) - "Girl from Mill Valley"

Plum Nellie - "A Love Like Yours"

Plum Nellie - "That Lucky Old Sun"

Bill Payne (of Little Feat) - "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"

Lari White (Bill Payne on piano) - "Lead Me Not"

Ray Charles - "Sweet Sixteen Bars"

Billy Preston - "Will It Go Round in Circles" - Gospel-style Intro by Billy Preston

The Rolling Stones (Billy Preston on piano) - "Shine a Light"

Delaney & Bonnie (Leon Russell) - "Faded Love"

Leon Russell - "She Belongs to Me"

Don Henley - "You Don't Miss Your Water"


Moderately Gospel Influenced:


Bob Dylan & Clydie King - "Abraham, Martin and John"

Billy Vera & the Beaters - "At This Moment"

Bob Dylan - "Piano Mood" - Gospel-style piano improvisation

Delaney & Bonnie (Leon Russell) - "Don't Deceive Me"

Jackson Browne (Craig Doerge on piano) - "Rock Me on the Water"

Jerry Lee Lewis - "When the Saints Go Marching In"

James Taylor (Clarence McDonald on piano) - "Steamroller Blues" - Piano Solo

Leon Russell - "Old Masters"

Ray Charles - "Heartbreaker"

Ray Charles duo with Billy Joel - "Baby Grand"


Gospel-related Exercises:


Transform a Melody into Floyd Cramer's Style - Mary Had a Little Lamb

ii-chord Bump Exercise

Gospel Chord Exercise No.1

Gospel Chromatically-Descending Riff Exercise - Ethel Caffie-Austin's Signature Lick

Gospel Rhythm Exercise (in the style of Lari White's Good Good Love)

Descending R&B-Gospel Riff Exercise - Billy Preston-Richard Tee Style

R&B-Gospel Elements Exercise, incl. Substitutions - Billy Preston-Richard Tee Style

Exercise in Contrary Motion - Gospel-Rock

Exercise in Gospel - Walk-ups & Walk-downs, IV-chord Bumps & Strums

Exercise - How To Transform a Melody into Gospel

Gospel & Stride Exercise - Crossing the Left Hand over the Right

Exercise - Ray Charles Ending (Extended Walk-down)

MIDI Corner - Transcriptions Turned into MIDI Files

Helpful for Those that Don't Read Sheet Music Well

Most of my transcriptions have heretofore been available only as sheet music in PDF's. That is gradually changing - some are now also available as MIDI files, which can be especially helpful for those who would prefer to listen to them than to read the sheet-music notation.


This section of my newsletter is where I'll keep you informed of which transcriptions and exercises are available as MIDI files.


BTW, if you'd like my sheet music in a MIDI file, just let me know which one(s).


Here are the currently available MIDI files of my transcriptions, arrangements, and exercises:


MIDI Files of Rock, Pop & Classical Transcriptions:


The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers.mid - NEW!

Brooks & Dunn - Boot Scootin' Boogie - Piano Solo.mid - NEW!

Fran Cisko - Hot Piano Blues Solo! - Piano & Bass.mid - NEW!

Elton John - "Rock and Roll Madonna".mid

Bob Dylan & Clydie King - "Abraham, Martin and John".mid

Nicky Hopkins - "Jenni"- Complete Piano Part.mid

Nicky Hopkins - "Interlude a la El Hopo" - Intro & "Flying Trapeze".mid

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil (Two 8-bar Verse Patterns) - Nicky Hopkins.mid

The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women (Live 1995) - Piano Solo - Chuck Leavell.mid

Elton John - Honky Tonk Women (11-17-70) - Piano Solo.mid

Chuck Leavell - Sympathy for the Devil (8 bars).mid

Vince Guaraldi - Christmas Is Coming (Improvised Section).mid

Travis Tritt - "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" - Piano Solo.mid

Sam Cooke - "Bring It On Home to Me".mid

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Workin' for MCA" - Electric Piano Solo.mid

Linda Ronstadt - "Back in the U.S.A." - Piano Solo.mid

Chris Higbee - "Living the Dream" - Piano Solo.mid

The Black Crowes - "Hard to Handle".mid

Cattanooga Cats - "Stop Right There".mid

The Fleetwoods - Mr. Blue - Arranged for Solo Piano.mid

Joe Zawinul - Jazz/Blues Acoustic Piano 4-minute Improvisation (1963).mid

Bruce Hornsby - Boogie-woogie Improvisation from The Tree Man.mid

Elmo Peeler - "Ashokan Farewell" arranged for Solo Piano (with Tempo Map).mid

Leon Russell - "Old Masters" (with Tempo Map)

Elton John - "Still Uses This Tip Leon Russell Gave Him in 1970"

B.B. King - "The Thrill Is Gone"

Jacob Tolliver - "Boogie Woogie Country Man"

Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood - "Squeeze Me In"

Meat Loaf - "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" (with Tempo Map)

Ray Charles - "Mess Around"

Richard Tee - "Happy Birthday Boogie-Woogie"

Donald Fagen - Standard 12-bar Blues (in A Major) transcr/arr. by Elmo Peeler).mid

Meat Loaf - "Bat Out of Hell" (with Tempo Map).mid

Bach - Violin Concerto, BWV 1042 - 2nd Mvmt - For Synth/Sampler or Piano.mid

Bach - Double Violin Concerto, BWV 1043 - 2nd Mvmt - For Synth/Sampler or Piano.mid

Booker T. & the M.G.'s - "Chinese Checkers".mid

Dave 'Baby' Cortez - "Rinky Dink".mid

Richard Tee - Contemporary Piano - First Piece.mid

Booker T. & the M.G.'s - "Hip Hug-Her".mid

Billy Vera & the Beaters - "At This Moment".mid

The Beatles (with Billy Preston) - "I've Got a Feeling" (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Floyd Cramer - "One Day at a Time (Sweet Jesus)" (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Gerry & the Pacemakers - "How Do You Do It" - Piano Solo (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Glenn Frey - "Route 66" (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Don Henley - "You Don't Miss Your Water" (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Billy Preston & The Beatles - "Without a Song" (gospel jam)(transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Ray Charles - "Makin' Whoopee" (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Bonnie Raitt - "I Can't Make You Love Me" (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

The Beatles (with Billy Preston) - "Get Back" (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Mavis Staples - Hard Times Come Again No More (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender (arranged by Elmo Peeler).mid

Sugar Chile Robinson - Numbers Boogie (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Sugar Chile Robinson - Numbers Boogie - with Left Hand in Broken Octaves.mid

The Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Van Morrison - Benediction - Piano Part (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

The Meters - Cabbage Alley - Piano Part - Intro & Verse (trans. by Elmo Peeler).mid

Elmo Peeler - A Whiter Shade of Pale - (arranged for Solo Piano).mid

Leon Russell - Shoot Out on the Plantation (studio version) (transcr. by Elmo Peeler).mid

Leon Russell - Shoot Out on the Plantation (Solo Piano version) (transcr. by Elmo Peeler).mid

The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year - Piano Solo (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Liberace - Chopsticks (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Long John Baldry - Conditional Discharge (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire (1957) (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Jerry Lee Lewis - Trouble in Mind - 2 Pianos: Jerry Lee &Tony Ashton (transcr. by Elmo Peeler).mid

Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Allman Brothers Band - Southbound - Complete Piano Part with Solo (transcr. by Elmo Peeler).mid

Bill Payne - The Ballad of Davy Crockett (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid

Saving Mr. Banks (8 Different Songs) - Richard Sherman demos from "Mary Poppins".mid

Stevie Ray Vaughan - The House Is Rockin' - Piano Intro & Solo (transcribed by Elmo Peeler).mid


MIDI Files of Exercises:


Elmo Peeler - Pig's Boogie Left-Hand Exercise

Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Cross-bar Phrasing (based on "Jessica" rhythm)

Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Ascending Chord Inversions

Elmo Peeler - Right Hand Lateral Motion Exercise

Elmo Peeler - Blues Exercise No. 12 - Alternating Hands Lick

Elmo Peeler - 6-note Minor Pentatonic Blues Scale Exercise

Elmo Peeler - Blues Exercise No.11 - 3rds, 6ths & Flips

Elmo Peeler - Exercise No.2 in Yodeling 6ths (Chromatically Ascending & Descending)

Elmo Peeler - Exercise in 4-note Chord Inversions

Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Fast Rock/Pop/Gospel Right-hand Octaves

Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Legato, Fingered Octaves

Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Rhythmic 'Pushes' (Jackson Browne Style)

Elmo Peeler - Exercise on Bruce Hornsby's Boogie-woogie Left Hand Pattern

Elmo Peeler - Boogie-woogie Chromatic Double-thirds Exercise

Elmo Peeler - Repeated Note Exercise on the Most Common Cliche.mid

Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Chord Inversions (in the Allman Brothers style).mid

Elmo Peeler - Rippling Fingers Exercise.mid

Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Crossing Hands - No.3.mid

Elmo Peeler - Propulsion Exercise.mid

Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Flips & Tremolos in 3rds.mid

Elmo Peeler - Exercise - Transform a Melody into Floyd Cramer's Style - Mary Had a Little Lamb.mid

Elmo Peeler - Alberti Bass Exercise.mid

Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Harmonized Arpeggios for Two Hands.mid

Elmo Peeler - Exercise for Crossing Hands, No.2.mid

Elmo Peeler - Exercise for the Wrists - Banjo on the Piano.mid

Elmo Peeler - Articulation Exercise in 6ths, Inspired by Bach's Invention No.8.mid

Elmo Peeler - Exercise in Chromatic Double-thirds.mid

Elmo Peeler - Leon Russell Exercise.mid

Elmo Peeler - 4-5-2-1 Exercise for the 4th & 5th fingers.mid

Elmo Peeler - 4-5-4-1 Exercise for the 4th & 5th fingers.mid

Elmo Peeler - Rhythmic Exercise - Splitting the Left Hand.mid

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A New Service, plus a Request

1) I'm not sure whether anyone will be interested, but if you'd like me to add my own piano track to a pre-existing track, just let me know.


a) You have an original song to which you'd like me to add my own piano track.

b) You have a favorite recording that does not have a piano on it, but you'd like me to add one.

Go to this page to hear several tracks to which I've added piano. Below the rotating pics, it says

SERVICE DESCRIPTION - AUDIO - VIDEO. Click on "AUDIO" to see the list.


2) My other request - please send me your custom transcription requests, because I've found a new way to separate the piano from other instruments/vocals better than ever before. This was used for the first time on "Rock and Roll Madonna" and it worked perfectly. Sometimes I've had to decline transcription requests because the piano part was obscured and could not be heard clearly enough to accurately transcribe.

Skype Piano Lessons

Welcome to 2025 and who knows what this New Year holds for each of us. My hope is that Peace and Love will come back into style as it was in the Woodstock era. Music is the universal language so let's all use it to communicate - to both our loved ones and those whose names we may never know - the Harmony, Joy, and Natural High that our greatest composers have given us - from Bach to Dylan, from Rachmaninoff to Crosby, Stills & Nash. There is no time like the present. Let's make the most of it - and of ourselves.


I've had the good fortune to have worked with some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry; and if you're serious about learning, I'll be happy to help you, too.

 

By means of Skype lessons (or in-person if you're in L.A.), I can coach you and help you to improve your technique, your rhythm, your ability to improvise, your knowledge of music theory, your sight-reading, and to develop relative pitch.

 

I've had the good fortune to have toured the world playing keyboards and arranging/conducting for these Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Artists:

  • The Beach Boys
  • Rod Stewart - All 'Unplugged' Concerts
  • Ricky Nelson - Stone Canyon Band


And I've also won classical piano competitions performing Beethoven, Rubinstein and Saint-Saens' Piano Concerti. See me playing here"Josie's Boogie" is quite the virtuoso dramatic minor-key showpiece; check out the ascending double-octave run at the ending... :)


Thanks to the internet, I can help you play piano better - rock or classical, by ear or by note.


Or if you live near the Hollywood Hills, I'll teach you in my home or yours.


If you'd like to improve, drop me a note at info@manymidi.com. Tell me three things:


1) Your musical background

2) Where you are currently, musically-speaking

3) Your musical goals


If you'd like to step back in time, watch me playing piano with Ricky Nelson on the Tonight Show - click here.


And here is a video of us playing three songs on The Midnight Special. And here we are on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow Show.

Franz Liszt - Boogie-woogie-ing on

"Dead Flowers"

My students include members of:

  • Weezer (Rivers & Brian)
  • Vampire Weekend (Ezra & newest addition, Greta)
  • Incubus (Mike)
  • The Strokes (Nick)
  • Rooney (Robert)
  • Jason Schwartzman (The Hunger Games - 2023, Asteroid City, Mozart in the Jungle)
  • Courteney Cox
  • Pablo Dylan

"I am very happy to contact you, since as you can see I like Jerry Lee a lot and I always try to learn by myself. But it is difficult, since the only scores you can find on the Internet are expensive and are not faithful to how "The Killer" really played.


One day I found your page by chance and I have already acquired most of the scores you have by Jerry, and I have to say that the quality-price ratio is the best I have been able to find. And most companies that transcribe ask for exorbitant prices. In short, thank you..."


- J.P.M.


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