“Music Box Ballerina” is a studio-licensed original composition for beginner/elementary pianists. Set high on the piano keys, it beautifully mimics the sound of a dancing ballerina music box. RH plays the pattern-based moving melody while LH plays a gently rocking motion beneath for an exquisite sound. A beautiful piece, especially for beginners who love ballet, dancing, and exploring different octave ranges on the piano.
COMES WITH A STUDIO LICENSE and includes 2 versions:
Version 1 = both hands written in Treble Clef and played 8va (one octave higher).
Version 2 (“Alternate Transcription”) = written in traditional Grand Staff (RH treble, LH bass) and played 15ma (2 octaves higher).
This product comes with a Studio License that allows you as a Teacher to share this copy with any number of your own students. (May not be shared with other teachers or non-students.)
“Little Waltz” is a lovely, simple waltz perfect for beginner/elementary pianists. The RH melody consists of long notes that are easy to follow so that the LH can focus on learning a classic waltz accompaniment pattern. Set in C major, it’s a great educational piece or performance piece for early level pianists.
Who doesn’t love flying a kite? This cute elementary piano number teaches students to follow a key signature (F Major) and let RH/LH take turns playing melody. Good educational value and fun for beginners of all ages.
Two original compositions that are perfect for teaching the differences between Major and Minor! Studio-licensed and perfect for late elementary pianists.
“A Major General”: An energetic military march complete with Hup, Two, Three, Four chords in LH. RH melody is a patriotic fanfare saluting A Major General. Fun lyrics, ends with a drumroll and “sir, yes, sir!”
“A Miner (Minor)”: A sad, slow song with lyrics about A Miner who couldn’t find any ore to mine. Set in A harmonic minor, with a dramatic ritardando ending and fermatas.
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This original piano solo cleverly combines a simple staccato walking bass line with a running melody to set the tone for a spooky Halloween encounter. The melody is filled with turns and scale passages offset by simple harmonies and chords. Easy octave changes make it accessible for elementary level pianists, and scale passages worked into the melody teach harmonic minor (while sneaking technique into repertoire!). The finale with a glissando down the keys is always a hit. This is a great piano solo for late elementary to early intermediate students any time of year, and especially during Halloween.
When a giant passes by, the ground shakes, the earth quakes, and we all lose our footing! This original piano piece in A minor mimics the thunderous stomping of a giant’s feet with heavy bass tones offset by high treble tones. Between the Fee, Fi, Fo, Fums, the step-based melody uses soft staccato scales and smooth slurred turns to represent the feeling of trying to run away while slipping and falling. Tons of fun for elementary pianists!
Among the Coral is an original contemporary piano solo for elementary pianists. With graceful melodic lines, octave changes, and pedal throughout, this music takes you on a journey swimming among the fishes of the reef. You can easily hear the ocean waves and feel the water flowing by as the melody floats up and down the keys. Clef changes and octave changes help to build reading skills and keyboard awareness while pedal lifts strengthen coordination. Perfect for a performance or musical artistry learning experience!
This ghostly waltz calls forth an otherworldly chill from your piano keys. Mysterious and slightly sad, this waltz in A minor makes a fine Halloween piece but can easily be enjoyed any time of year. LH melody with RH pulses on beats 2 and 3 of each measure create a beautiful contemporary 2-hand waltz in classical style, supported by expressive dynamics and strategic pedal. Perfect for late beginner to early intermediate level.
“Hooting Owl” is a quick and mysterious beginner piece with lyrics about a lone owl that continues to hoot, call, and screech at you all night. Due to its minor key and frequent use of D sharps (double harmonic minor), it has a Halloweeny vibe that kids will love!
“Hooting Owl” teaches lifts (slur-staccatos) and minimal LH movement across a short range of keys (RH remains in familiar 5-finger C position so that beginners need only concentrate on moving one hand). Some finger numbers are included to assist with LH movement. RH and LH take turns with the melody so that both develop a balanced sense of musicality. Contains no eighth notes.
A song all about Groundhog Day! This fun holiday piece teaches mid to late beginner pianists all about Punxsutawney Phil and February 2nd. While learning about the holiday, students will also learn cut time, F Major chords, repeating minor 2nds, and slur-staccato lifts to strengthen their playing skills.
Ready to sit back and enjoy the ride? This rollercoaster-inspired piano solo takes you on twists, turns, loops, and more. Scales in both parallel and contrary motion, LH and RH melodic passages, and skips, jumps, and accents all recreate the feeling of riding a rollercoaster at an amusement park. Descriptions are included throughout the music to help pianists visualize the experience as they learn. Great for mid-to-late beginner pianists and an excellent tool for teaching intervals, scales, and tempo changes.
Splattering Paint is a fun, original contemporary piano solo for elementary pianists. Quick tempo and filled with splashes of staccatos, slurs, and lifts, this quirky piano solo is perfect for the musical artist! Unique intervals and mini chromatic passages make it sound like you are splashing paint on a canvas, and rhythmic changes between the hands develop excellent hand coordination. This is a great mid to late beginner recital piece.
For big cat lovers! “Panther on the Hunt!” captures the stealthy, tracking movements of a panther stalking its prey. The music builds tension throughout until the final dramatic pounce! With C as the tonal center, the music is based primarily on the double harmonic minor scale with an oft-flatted third for a unique and interesting sound. Cat lovers and animals lovers will love the excitement of “Panther on the Hunt!”
“Rainbow Sherbet” is a studio-licensed original composition for late beginner pianists. The back-and-forth movement of the hands is a fun swinging sensation that piano students will love. It is also highly educational as it switches back and forth between parallel and contrary motion every 2 beats. Rainbow Sherbet was composed with strong pedagogy principles in mind and is a wonderful little summer piece for piano studios.
COMES WITH A STUDIO LICENSE and includes 2 versions: Version 1 has the RH written where played, and Version 2 has the RH written one octave lower and marked 8va (perfect for students who need more experience reading notes in the lower/mid Treble range). Both versions sound the same when played.
This product comes with a Studio License that allows you as a Teacher to share this copy with any number of your own students. (May not be shared with other teachers or non-students.)
For penguin lovers! “Mister Emperor Penguin” is a cute song that any penguin fan will love. Written for elementary pianists, it teaches flats, dynamics, and cut time. The catchy rhythm of the melody makes it easy to learn, and the lyrics teach about the role of “Mister Emperor Penguin” for additional educational value. This is a fun piece for animal lovers.
Floating is an original contemporary piano solo for beginner pianists. Written in F lydian mode with continual pedal resonance and gentle, graceful lifts, this music feels just like floating up in the sky. This modal composition paints beautiful imagery and serves as a lovely beginner recital piece.
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away” — how many sayings do you know about apples? And how often do kids hear these sayings and have no idea what they mean?
This late beginner number describes a handful of popular “apple idioms”, and the singer is just trying to make sense of what they mean! The playful RH melody includes one-octave arpeggios to help the hands learn to open up and stretch, with easy-to-read harmonic 2nds and 3rds in the LH accompaniment. It’s a great piece for fruit-lovers, idiom-lovers, and late beginner students of all ages.
Any cat lover will have a blast playing this late beginner original composition. Sneaky Black Cat exhibits very cat-like behavior, with unexpected trills, dynamic changes, staccatos, accents, and more. It really feels like a cat walking and pouncing along the piano keys. Sneaky Black Cat is a great beginner piano piece for Halloween or any time of year.
With a calm start that increases in volume and speed, Diminished is an unusually fun beginner waltz. RH and LH take turns playing broken chords in minor and diminished forms, changing octaves and dynamics to add mystery. Beginner pianists will love the fortissimo finish that is “as fast as possible”! This is a great original composition to help students channel their Halloween excitement!
It was a dark and stormy night — lightning flashes, thunder crashes, pouring rain, pounding hail. Late elementary to early intermediate pianists will love how Stormy Night captures this moody, dark scene, perfect for Halloween music. In this original composition, RH takes on the role of the rain and hail while LH controls the thundering melody. Octave changes and harmonic intervals help with keyboard awareness and reading skills, while the quick tempo and dynamics develop musical expression.
Moonlit Walk is a somber beginner piece in C minor. It has moving melodic lines in both hands, played in turn so that the two hands are not moving simultaneously and so that beginners can focus their attention on the moving hand. It also has atypical hand positions (instead of both in C), all intervals are steps or skips (except one), and finger numbers are only included occasionally to help develop reading skills. Moonlit Walk is a contemporary beginner Halloween piece that is smooth, serious, and sad in tone.
Many wonderful nursery rhymes tell great stories, but most are eventually forgotten if they are never set to music. I’ve set this rhyme to a lovely little tune that rocks like a boat sailing gently across the sea. Set in 6/8 meter, the lilting melody and steady broken chord accompaniment call back to times when we would all dream of candies and goodies brought home from across the seas.
If you’ve ever gone camping, it’s easy to recall the fun memories of playing in the lake, making s’mores, and setting up your tent together for a night under the stars. This early beginner piece is full of cheerful energy and is great for early beginners who are learning to play eighth notes and sharps. Some beginners may even want to swing the eighths like a campfire singalong.
Rock Band! will put you right in the mood for your next live rock concert! This original piece has a classic rock driving bass pattern (LH) and a simple RH melody, perfect for helping beginners master smaller intervals like skips/3rds and 4ths.
