- Level: Early Intermediate
- Pages: 4 pages, 2 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Frenzied
- Bonuses: mp3 performance recording included
- Format: PDF instant download
Calamity is a piece that sound frantic and frenzied, making it super fun for students who love to play fast. It’s a great piece for the Halloween season, especially for older students who need mature music that’s fairly easy to play. Calamity is studio licensed, so you can use it over and over again for any student you directly teach.
What Level is Calamity?
Calamity is early intermediate. At first glance it appears late elementary, so many late elementary students may be able to play it. But the tempo is what bumps it up to early intermediate. The smallest note value is the eighth note. There are numerous sharps, flats, and naturals, but these are all notated in the music and not included in key signature, making it much easier for this level of piano student. Careful editing and lots of dynamics, articulations, and markings make Calamity an excellent teaching piece. There is no pedaling in the piece.
Bonus mp3 Recording!
With your purchase of this studio license, you will receive a bonus mp3 recording of Calamity performed by Diane Hidy. You are permitted to send this example performance track to your students to help them learn the piece.
What is the Studio License?
Calamity is delivered digitally (through your email receipt) and is studio licensed. This means that you can print and use this for any student that you directly teach for your entire lifetime of teaching.
Bundle and Save
Calamity is piece #2 in the Mean Little Monsters series. The pieces in this bundle are late elementary to early intermediate. Purchase the Mean Little Monsters Bundle for a special discounted price!
Prefer to have a physical book?
Diane Hidy sells a physical book of Mean Little Monsters here. These pieces are not studio licensed in this print format (and they don’t contain the teaching tips or Master It Faster handouts), but we know that sometimes, you just might want to have a book in addition to the studio license!
Debbie Bannon –
My students LOVED this piece! The helpful hints on how to teach it were great too. It was easier to teach than I had expected. I gave it to one in particular that was not practicing enough. She came back and had the song down in one week’s time!
kathleen –
I have a very serious 10 year old student who was getting very burned out by both the overly serious method book she’s currently in and the online format. This piece was timely for the season and just the inspiration this girl needed. She loved it,learned it quickly, and as it is pattern based was able to memorize it with relative ease.