Piano, Organ & Keyboard Sheet Music arranged by Simone Collins
News about contemporary music arrangements by Simone Collins
This week’s Christmas song is a contemporary one: Calypso Carol. This is a personal favourite to play, since its quite a different style to more traditional carols. To differentiate the Christmas songs under copyright to those in the public domain, I’ve created a different cover design for the contemporary Christmas series.
The latest arrangement to be published is “Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol. Another one of the “Park Jam” series, this is a combination lead sheet (1 page) plus keyboard score with the vocal line (3 pages). I’ve now added a cover sheet with a preview of both parts, and will go back through the other …
A lead sheet + keyboard / synthesizer score for “Someone To You” by Banners is the latest arrangement published. This is another one of my Park Jam series, of pieces designed to be played in a band. “Someone To You” is now available on Sheet Music Direct and Sheet Music Plus, and should also be …
The latest edition to the Park Jam series of contemporary songs arranged for keyboard / synth with separate lead sheets included. “Never Tear Us Apart” by INXS is one of my favourite pieces to play at Park Jam since the keyboard adds a huge dimension to a strumming group. Now available on Sheet Music Direct …
The third of my keys / lead sheet series I use at Park Jam sessions now published is Eurhythmics “Thorn In My Side”. I’ve again include both the original score (with the vocal line plus keyboard / synth parts), as well as a stand alone lead sheet at the end of the PDF. It’s currently …
The second of my keys / lead sheets I use at Park Jam sessions that I’ve just published is Eurogliders’ “Heaven (Must Be There)”. For the first time I’ve changed up the download so that it has my original score with the vocal line plus keyboard / synth parts, and I’ve also created a single …
It’s been 2 weeks since I last published an arrangement! As much as I’ve wanted to work on some more this past fortnight, I’ve had other things I’ve needed to focus on. However, thumbing through a book I’d not opened in a few years, but took with me to my theatre organ practise session along …
The first of my cover band series for keyboard / synthesizer is now available: Mental As Anything’s “Live It Up”. This is a little different to the piano and organ arrangements that I’ve published to date, as it’s not a solo arrangement. Instead, it’s a piano / vocal / guitar lead sheet with some suggested …
With new Contemporary arrangements being added on a regular basis, with new categories being added, I have overhauled the Contemporary Music section of this website. This enables me to include tags for the contemporary music, to make it easier to filter as the range of contemporary sheet music expands.
It’s been a good 4 years since I last edited my intermediate piano arrangement of Black Catcher (Black Clover Op 10). The engraving software I use, MuseScore, has undergone a big overhaul since then, so today I revisited my arrangement and reworked the layout and appearance. I decided to change it from a 5 page …
