About Us
Melodies Monthly is a new service from My-Melodies Publishing that is centered around giving teachers like you a voice in what your studio needs!
If our goal is to help teachers, why not go straight to the source?
We wanted teachers to be part of the creative process and to tell us exactly what their studio needs. Instead of waiting months for a new publication, our song request form takes 60 seconds to fill out and opens a direct line of communication between teachers and composers.
After the votes are tallied, our team gets busy to give you the music you need in a few short weeks!
Bridging the gap between what students want and what teachers need is our specialty!
We consider ourselves piano teachers first and foremost. Having that experience working with students of all different ages and skill levels everyday single day allows us to see and hear the needs of our students.
We saw that our students wanted more modern, more fun sounding pieces to play for their family and friends while also being approachable for younger players. That’s a tall order and is very difficult to find. So we started writing the pieces ourselves and making these pieces custom-tailored around our students needs and interests first.
Since our first publications in 2020 with Five-Finger Jazz! Book 1 and 2, we’ve grown to have eight books in our catalogue and have brought another composer to our team, Kai Ono.
Slowly, but surely teachers are hearing about our books from national publications like AMT Magazine, Piano Inspires Magazine, curriculum selections like the 2024-2028 NFMC Bulletin, Conservatory Canada’s Piano Repertoire Series, and others.
The most important mark of success for us is that students are connecting with our books and getting excited about music!
Meet Our Composers
Brock Chart is a composer, piano studio owner, and founder of My-Melodies Publishing in Lawrence, Kansas. Brock composes in a variety of genres and mediums including jazz, pop, contemporary choral music, educational piano literature, and film music. He is a proud alumnus of the University of Kansas, was named the 2025 Commissioned Composer Award by the Kansas Music Teachers Association, 2022 Composer of the Year by the Kansas Federation of Music Clubs, and had 15 original compositions selected for the 2024-2028 National Federation of Music Clubs Bulletin.
Brock has been awarded two Student Music Awards in DownBeat magazine for composition in jazz-writing categories in both large-ensemble writing and small-group writing. He was named an Honorable Mention in the 2017 New York Youth Symphony First Music Commissions for his piece “Down to the Wire.”
Recently, Brock composed the film score for a feature length dark comedy by Brandon Daley, $POSITIONS, which was chosen to premiere at the 2025 SWSX Film Festival. In 2019, Brock composed an original music score for the Museum of Modern Art’s short film series How to See, which was listed in the British Film Institute’s list of the “Best Video Essays of 2019.” His music was also used in Brandon Daley’s short films Savasana, which was premiered at the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival in Utah; Chicken Tuesdays; and Technology Lake, which was one of twelve films selected to compete at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea and the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival.
Over the past three years, through My-Melodies Publishing, Brock composed and published six books in his educational Five-Finger piano series: Five-Finger Jazz! Book 1 and Book 2, Five- Finger Pop! Book 1 and Book 2, and Five-Finger Rock! Book 1 and Book 2. The books have received great reviews from pedagogues and leaders in the educational community in publications like American Music Teacher and the Francis Clark’s Center’s Piano Magazine as well as in educator blogs, websites, and podcasts (like Vibrant Music Teaching and All Keyed Up)—all devoted to teaching popular music.
Brock enjoys cooking, eating tacos, and spending time with his wife, Dominique; and their two dogs, Howard and Martinelli.