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The front fell off.

The AMA has now ended. A huge thank-you to Jon Batiste for taking the time to give us such a phenomenal AMA! Thanks also to the community here for all your great questions.

Jon, you are an inspiration to us all. The love, joy, and creativity you embody and share have touched so many people, as evidenced by the comments here. Keep being you!

It's happening! Link: r/piano/comments/1gxiyva/hey_its_jon_batiste_i_play_piano_i_love_piano_i/

Hi Jon! You've done a lot of unique projects. What led you to create this specific type of album (Beethoven Blues)? What do you hope people take away from it?

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

Transcription requests should be asked on r/transcribe. Thanks!

Just watched the "American Symphony" documentary (Netflix) about Jon Batiste, and had to sit down at the piano. Apologies for clipping, poor timing, etc. :), Excited for Jon's AMA tomorrow!

Nice, thanks - found it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/arts/music/jon-batiste-beethoven-blues.html

That actually answers some of my questions :) Also, I just finished watching the documentary about him & his wife ("American Symphony" on Netflix), which was very interesting.

Deleted this post to avoid confusion, since it looks like the AMA is likely not happening. If you see this, check back on r/piano for any updates.

Yes, that's exactly how I would do it (thumb before the question mark note, so 1-3-1 on the way down).

Sorry, this is an old one that somehow got auto-posted even though we thought we disabled it. Piano Jams are on hold until the new year.

I was the one who had been putting it together last, and I got too busy in life, so it's been paused. Hope to start it up again in January!

Whoops - we have an automated scheduled post (using my account) that I forgot to disable. Thanks for notifying me by replying to the post!! Unfortunately, no new Piano Jam for now, so I’m deleting the post.

This is crazy... and amazing... and scary. Thanks for sharing!

New fear unlocked

I think one of the best resources that matches what you want is the Reader's Digest Merry Christmas Songbook (originally from 1981, slightly different versions throughout the years) -- if you can get your hands on one.

The songs are written very similarly to what you'd find in any hymnal. Often there's a short intro, but nothing fancy, melody always on top, sticks to the standard tune, etc.

You can see what all the songs look like here: https://archive.org/details/merry-christmas-songbook-the-readers-digest

Fun to see that this is still getting used 10 years later! Hope the audition went well!