After the initial two volumes covering “low hanging fruit” of famous slow-paced piano melodies that were ripe for compressing into a Simple Solution, this third volume is more ambitious with a collection of quite substantial pieces! Some of them requires a little bit more movement, especially the Debussy Arabesque and the Rachmaninoff Prelude, but they are still worth making easier by shaving down the top challenges to a much more comfortable piano experience. To balance this up, there are a handful of short and very accessible pieces included in the Brahms Lullaby and the two Schumann movements from Kinderszenen (the Träumerei making an appearance here as well as in Volume 1). After confirming a couple of core pieces, the theme of Nights & Dreams made itself known and I completed the collection choosing two pieces for every represented composer. Brahms and Schumann sings you to sleep with their lullabies; Chopin lingers on the nightly mood in two Nocturnes; Liszt and Debussy have dreams of both tranquil and vivid characters; and finally Rachmaninoff closes the volume with his famous Prelude that is actually inspired by a dream in the first place, and a Nocturne-like mourning Elegie.

All arrangements in this volume comes in two versions: both transposed to easier key signatures as well as kept in their the original keys. The "Easy Keys" transposed version is recommended for the most comfortable Simple Solutions experience. It's much easier to read notes without many sharps or flats, which frees up a lot of attention for all other musical aspects only at a cost if you have perfect pitch. The version in original key serves the purpose of constituting a proper stepping stone if you wish to continue with the full original later on, whithout having to unlearn all harmony because it was in the wrong key.