Category: Holiday Music

Seasonal Repertoire and Teaching Activities to Energize Your Studio

9/8/2025

The fall semester is officially underway!

Today I am sharing some of my favorite original pieces, arrangements, and teaching activities that will help you to harness the excitement of the upcoming holidays to motivate your students!

Whether you are looking for lyrical solos or showstopping duets, you'll find something to please every student in your studio on this list. As a bonus, get FREE copies of my favorite seasonal teaching activities to use during the fall and winter months!

Keep reading for more...

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Free Pre-Reading Piano Music

8/14/2025

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Help brand-new students feel successful at the piano right away with these free, pre-reading piano pieces!

Click on the images below to download your PDF copy of any of these pieces. Like all of my free resources, these pieces are intended for personal and/or educational use and may be downloaded, reproduced, and distributed free of charge by teachers and students. All resources on this page are © Copyright Chrissy Ricker.

Note: Feel free to bookmark this page, as I will add new pre-reading pieces here as they become available!

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New Late Elementary Piano Collections!

6/18/2025

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Are you starting to choose your fall and holiday repertoire? I am excited to share 3 brand-new, "must-have" collections for late elementary piano that you'll want to check out for your studio for this coming school year!

From fast and flashy fantasy-inspired solos to lyrical duets--you'll find options in these 3 collections to please every student in your studio.

Keep reading to learn more about these new releases...

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7 Holiday Hacks to Use in Your Lessons this Season!

12/13/2024

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If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you may have noticed my "Holiday Hacks" series of teaching tips over the past few weeks. (And if you don't follow me there...what are you waiting for? I share teaching tips, information about new releases, freebies, and more, 5 days a week over on those platforms!)

My "holiday hacks" give you easy ideas for fun ways to use holiday songs to work on ear training, music theory, improvisation, and much more during this busy time of year.

Today, I am sharing all 7 holiday hacks here in one handy blog post, along with free printables that you can use with your students as you wrap up the year!

Keep reading to see more...

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2024 Holiday Pop Releases at Musicnotes!

11/30/2024

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Did you know that I release brand new pop arrangements over at Musicnotes every week?

In this post, I am rounding up my newest holiday releases that you might have missed--from upbeat Christmas songs and lovely holiday movie themes, to music for all levels from the new "Wicked" movie!

Keep reading to see the new releases...

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Seasonal Repertoire and Teaching Activities to Energize Your Studio

Free Pre-Reading Piano Music

New Late Elementary Piano Collections!

7 Holiday Hacks to Use in Your Lessons this Season!

2024 Holiday Pop Releases at Musicnotes!

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