- Level: Late elementary to early intermediate
- Pages: 5 pages, 3 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Competitive and Excited!
- Format: PDF instant download
- Bonus: Free mp3 performance
Soccer (a.k.a. football in all but the U.S. and Canada) is popular with kids. So popular in fact, that piano lessons are probably competing with soccer for your student’s time! So, why not use the excitement of soccer to motivate your students to practice!
Dribble and Drive is an energetic piece about soccer / football that kids will love. The fancy footwork of soccer becomes the fancy fingerwork of playing the piece in this exciting piece. Dribbling the ball and driving it to the goal is what Dribble and Drive is all about!
Concepts covered in Dribble and Drive:
Dribble and Drive is great for reinforcing fourths and subtle syncopations. The piece has been carefully edited so students experience legato, staccato, accents, syncopation, accidentals, pedaling, changing registers, and a broad range of dynamics. The shortest note value in Dribble and Drive is the eighth note. All syncopations are simple ones that are easy to execute.
But even with all of those musical concepts contained in the piece, the notes and patterns fall easily under the hands.
So this is a great teaching piece!
Bonus included!
When you purchase Dribble and Drive, you’ll receive a free, bonus mp3 track of the performance of the piece. This audio file will not have any voiceovers, so your student can get the rhythms and musical ideas in their heads easily just by listening. For this purchase, you are free to send the mp3 to your students. Just attach it to an email to their parents and then they can easily add it to their iPod or just play it from their computer.
More pieces in the sports series:
We have an entire series of sports pieces that continues to grow. If you’d like to purchase all these pieces, you can see each of them below or purchase the discounted bundle here.
- Buzzer Beater
- Football Fever
- Dribble and Drive (that’s this piece)
- Get the discounted bundle here.Â
Kim Oien –
This is a perfect song for this year’s recital with a focus on rhythm. Wendy’s songs always deliver a great playing as well as listening experience. I’m really enjoying this piece!
Nancy Spahr –
This is such a fun piece. I have already started using it with two of my students. 🙂