The Beautiful Places series has been one of the most popular series on ComposeCreate® since we’ve brought it out. It’s designed to appeal to more sophisticated tastes, so it’s been very popular with teens and adults.

But we’ve only ever had an elementary level (In Beautiful Places) and a late elementary level (Exploring Beautiful Places) of this series.

Until now.

Today, we’re releasing two more levels of “Beautiful Places!” This will be perfect for beginning adult piano students and will keep them from getting frustrated that their pieces sound too childish. Because they won’t!

These pieces sound very mature even though they are for the truly beginning adult piano student!

Here are the two new sets from the Beautiful Places Series:

Finding Beautiful Places (Early Elementary):

This earliest of elementary levels is called “Finding Beautiful Places” and features music on the black keys. Students read by direction of notes and finger numbers. The hand position is clearly indicated with a picture of the keyboard and finger numbers in the upper left corner. And the rhythms are all basic quarter and half note rhythms that adults can easily feel even when practicing alone. Here’s an example:

See and hear the early elementary pieces:

Click on any of the four pieces to hear and see the music:

Entering Beautiful Places (Early to Mid Elementary):

The early to mid elementary level is called “Entering Beautiful Places” and features music on the white keys, but with note names on each of the notes when it’s shown the first time. When that pattern or note is repeated, the letter names are left off to help the student learn the names of the notes. Here’s an example:

See and hear the early to mid elementary pieces:

Click on any of the three pieces to hear and see the music:

These two sets of pieces now mean that we have “Beautiful Places” music for all elementary levels – from early to late elementary! You can explore this entire series here. These links will take you to the bundles. From there, you can go to individual pieces:

• Finding Beautiful Places (Early Elementary)
• Entering Beautiful Places (Early to Mid Elementary)
• In Beautiful Places (Mid Elementary)
• Exploring Beautiful Places (Late Elementary)