The Firm Soundtrack – Dave Grusin

by Tim Topham in Repertoire on February 4, 2012.

A colleague recently introduced me to the music from the movie “The Firm”. I haven’t seen the movie, but the music is great – energetic and fun, jazzy and bluesy. It is at the harder end of the spectrum – about Grade 7+ – and teenagers in particular will love it. At least one piece is on the ANZCA syllabus (Memphis Stomp – Grade 7 Jazz I think), but there may well be others. I’ll be using this for my higher-level students as fun pieces to try after exams!

Here is where you can buy it and I’ve included some YouTube clips of people playing the pieces for your info:

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The Firm Soundtrack
By Various. For voice, piano and guitar chords. Piano Solo Songbook. Movies. Difficulty: medium. Songbook. Vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names, guitar chord diagrams and black & white photos. 64 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.312494)

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Mitch and Abby – ballad

Memphis Stomp – funky

Rays’ Blues – slow blues with improv sound

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Tim Topham

Tim Topham is the founder and director of TopMusic. Tim hosts the popular TopCast show, blogs regularly at dev.topmusic.co and speaks at local and international conferences on topics such as pedagogy, business, marketing and entrepreneurship. Tim has been featured in American Music Teacher, The Piano Teacher Magazine, California Music Teacher and EPTA Piano Professional. Tim holds an MBA in Educational Leadership, BMus, DipEd and AMusA.