Chad Twedt

Sheet Music

Chad's original compositions and arrangements for solo piano and for two and four pianos, plus a fingering card for students. All are available from orangenote.site.

Solo piano

Ostinato Suite No. 1

Solo piano · 4 movements

Chad's first published work, full of youthful energy: four ostinato movements, Outburst, Mother Nature's Clock, Spellbound and Victory Bells.

Ostinato Suite No. 2

Solo piano · 4 movements

Four ostinato movements: Merciful Cry, Chinese Tea Dance, Nocturne and Grand Ostinato. Merciful Cry and Nocturne are within reach of early advanced students.

9/11 Portrait

Solo piano · 3 movements

A three-movement work of extreme emotional intensity that memorializes, and copes with, the horror and loss of September 11, 2001: Fall of the Twin Giants, Love's Labor Lost and Prayer.

Life of a Rain Cloud

Solo piano · very advanced

A dramatic solo piece that follows a dark, thunderous rain cloud from its formation to its evaporation.

Solfeggissimo

Solo piano · arrangement

An arrangement of C.P.E. Bach's Solfeggietto that turns most of the original's single notes into full octave chords.

Dragon Suite No. 1

Solo piano · 4 movements

The first of two four-movement suites of Chad's arrangements of Jordan Steven's music for Dragons' Odyssey: From the Ground Up, Fired Up!, When the Sun Shines and Denarius.

Dragon Suite No. 2

Solo piano · 4 movements

The second suite: Outlawed, Life More Abundant, Sanctum Sanctorium and Fugare Draco.

Two and four pianos

Teacher Duets for Burgmüller's Op. 100

2 pianos · part for the teacher

A second-piano part for all 25 of Burgmüller's Easy and Progressive Studies, written not to be easy but to musically enhance the originals, so the student's teaching piece becomes concert music. Printed book.

Cosmosis

4 pianos · advanced

An original four-piano work commissioned in 2019 and premiered in 2020 by the four-piano group Piano 4te. Includes four separate parts and a full study score.

Herr, unser Herrscher

4 pianos · arrangement

Chad's four-piano arrangement of the opening chorus of Bach's St. John Passion, commissioned in 2025 by Piano 4te, with the world premiere to be announced. Includes four separate parts and a full study score.

For teachers and students

Scale & Arpeggio Fingering Cards

Pack of 5 · laminated

A sturdy double-sided card showing the fingerings of all 48 major and minor scales and all 24 major and minor arpeggios, plus dominant and diminished 7th arpeggios, chromatic scale fingerings and chromatic minor thirds. Color patterns make the fingerings easy to learn, and at about 6.75″ × 9.5″ it doubles as a bookmark for sheet music.