Turn Your Hearts ~ Hymn # 291 ~ Simplified Piano

Hymn # 291 Turn Your Hearts ~ Adapted for ‘Uber-Simplified Piano’ – Free Sheet Music

Okay ~ found out last Sunday that I was going to need to play the piano in Relief Society. I am also giving the lesson.  I guess I should be grateful that I am not talking in Sacrament meeting too.

The Lesson is on Quentin L. Cooks April Conference Talk Roots and Branches. That means – Family History and Elijah the Prophet.

We chose the opening hymn as # 291 Turn Your Hearts.

The chorister was concerned about whether I could play it.

I told her “It doesn’t matter ~ I probably can’t unless it is uber-simplified.

Hence my simplifying the hymns.

You’ll never see me grace the halls of Julliard,
~ I am grateful I can play as well as I do, now that I am closing in on 50.  :/

Hey – I am grateful I can remember how to read music!  Hee, hee, hee… 😉

So below is my Super-Uber-Simplified Left-hand arrangement of Hymn # 291.

I can play with the right hand well enough, and the left hand well enough, they just haven’t learned to play well together!  I play fine with my feet, they don’t get in the way.

For those who struggle with the right-hand, I apologize.

Usually the melody and the alto lines really need to be played, mostly because it’s the women in the congregation who are singing in parts.  The men, they either sing the melody or fit the notes in somewhere.

Now,  I do not want to diss the men who really can sing, they are usually good enough to pick their part out of the bass chord.

Here is the music – download for free and play happy! 🙂

Hymn # 291 Turn_Your_Hearts_Super_Simplified_Left-Hand_Piano

 

Update on my lesson – at 12:35 Sunday morning, I learned that I had prepared the wrong lesson and had to quickly study a new lesson before going to bed.  The lesson topic was actually about Elder David A. Bednars conference talk titled: Bear Up Their Burdens with Ease.

The lesson went well and I will wait for another opportunity to give my scheduled lesson.

My Country, ‘Tis of Thee ~ Hymn 339

Hymn # 339 My Country ‘Tis of Thee ~ Adapted for Organ – Free Sheet Music

It’s that time of the year again ~ I love patriotic music!

This lovely hymn, flag shaped like USA which brings me to tears every time I  sing it, connects me with my own family history.

I love my country, I love my God and I love my family.

Even in these trying times , this beautiful hymn swells  these feelings from deep in my soul and brings to  remembrance of what a blessed land I do live in.
I am grateful to have the freedom to worship my God and for the freedom this land allows for others to worship God in a manner fitting their beliefs.  I am thankful for my family, my children and the blessing they are in my life.

I am grateful to all those who have sacrificed for my benefit so that I am able to enjoy these freedoms, pursue my interests unfettered, and enjoy all the gifts my Heavenly Father bestows upon me.

Let us remember those who sacrificed then and those who still sacrifice today.  What a blessing it is to have the brave who still believe that America is a land worth their stand.  May freedom always be protected by God and those who love it.

Enjoy this hymn, and try not cry when you play it.

Sincerely,

Elizabeth  🙂

Click below to download My Country, ‘ Tis of Thee free sheet music for simplified organ:
oops…there was typo in measure 7, in the bass left hand.  G should have been an F.

*New Update* 7/06/2014:  Connected notes to create a smoother sound.
The updated copy is below:

Hymn 339 My_Country,_’Tis_of_Thee_Simplified_Organ

p.s.  I simplified this hymn to ‘sound’ like you are playing every note.  😉

 

Joseph Smith’s First Prayer ~ Hymn 26

Hymn # 26  Joseph Smith’s First Prayer ~ Adapted for Organ – Free Sheet Music

Also recognized as:
‘Oh, How Lovely Was the Morning’.

Joseph Smiths First Vision LDS

Joseph Smith’s First Vision
http://www.lds.org

This hymn is a poetic ballad of the moments leading up to Joseph Smith’s glorious vision of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ in the sacred grove and his culminating feelings of what he experienced.

A beautiful and faith inspiring piece.

This simplified hymn for organ has a tiny bit more technic’s in the left hand than most, but to keep in musical congruence, the moving notes needed to remain.

Click the link at the bottom of this page to download
your free copy of Joseph Smith’s First Prayer.

I hope this re-write is simple enough, without sacrificing the beauty of this sacred music.

Click the link below to download your free copy of Joseph Smith’s First Prayer.

***New Note:  I updated the link to this hymn June 28, 2014, after cleaning up some formatting issues and changing two notes in the organ part.  I changed measures 7 and 11 and made them whole notes. ***
New Update 7/06/14:  I changed the pedal note in the 3rd measure to a ‘C’ and added an ‘F’ and an ‘A’ in the tenor line.  I then connected many notes together to reflect how I played it on the organ to provide a more legato sound

Download this free updated version today:

Hymn # 26  Joseph_Smith’s_First_Prayer_Organ ~ updated 7/06/2014

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Enjoy ~ but most of all: Play Happy!

May the Chords be with you 😉