Jon SchmidtTo the Summit

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Side Notes: • This song was literally dreamt up. One night, while dreaming, dreaming, I  heard some brand new music that I really liked. Luckily, I hurried  and woke up, ran to the piano, and was able to capture what has definitely become one of my favorite songs. Despite the fact that it  was written for piano and orchestra, over the years I've had so many requests for the piano score that I decided to make it available. • Again, I slightly altered this solo piano score from from the album because it works better. better. If you are interested, interested, the album piano score as well as the saxophone score are available at jonschmidt.com as PDF downloads. (Sorry, the minus track could not be made available.)

• To ease into this song, I suggest skipping the introduction and first learning measures 44 through 75.  By doing this you will avoid a possible negative first  impression of the song: The introduction sounds more more introductory than it does melodic… and it gave some of  my testers trouble trouble as far as counting. (i.e. Colton Shields… ha ha.) Don’t worry; I’ve put in some counting helps since then.

To the Summit (piano solo version)

 = 145-160  mi piace zuppa di pomodoro

written by Jon Schmidt (from the album To the Summit )

copyright ©2005 3 1

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