- Level: Late Elementary
- Pages: 4 pages, 2 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Mysterious and Melancholy
- Bonus: mp3 performance track
- Format:PDF instant download
Eastern Harbor is a late elementary piano solo, and is the third in the Exploring Beautiful Places series. Like the other solos in this series, it is reflective and meditative, giving students a mature sound while allowing them to practice expressive and intentionally nuanced playing.
You can picture the beautiful ship on the cover of this piece sailing into harbor while playing, with dynamics and eighth note patterns that slightly swell just like the waves breaking in at a harbor.
What level is Eastern Harbor?
Eastern Harbor is a late elementary solo. The tonal center of this piece is E, and it has a pentatonic feel, giving it an eastern sound. The RH uses an easy 5-finger pattern. There are many accidentals written in, making the piece a wonderful chance to practice accidental reading, as well as finger dexterity within a 5-finger position.
Both LH and RH play in the treble clef throughout the piece. The end of the piece explores several registers of the piano, using a repeating pattern that makes the jumps simple. The smallest note value is an eighth note. Syncopated pedaling is notated in the score throughout.
Bonus recording included!
Eastern Harbor comes with a bonus mp3 recording performed by Wendy Stevens. You are permitted to send this example performance track to your students to help them learn the piece.
More About the Exploring Beautiful Places Series:
This series of late elementary pieces builds on the elementary In Beautiful Places series that is composed specifically to appeal to teens and adults. Exploring Beautiful Places helps students progress in their rhythms (eighth notes are added in this series) and moving around more fluidly around the piano.
Eastern Harbor is included in this discounted Exploring Beautiful Places bundle that includes three late elementary piano solos:
- Seaside Retreat
- Mid-Air Meditation
- Eastern Harbor (that’s this piece)
What is the Studio License?
Eastern Harbor 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.
Caren –
Mid air meditation is a huge hit with young teen and adult students. They get the relaxing emotion right away. The adults also like Seaside Retreat and Eastern Harbor.
Teresa –
Eastern Harbor and Seaside Retreat are favorites for my middle students. It’s always nice when a student is motivated to work through the hard parts because they love the piece.
Audrey –
I purchase this Mid Air Meditation, Seaside Retreat, and Eastern Harbor bundle. My students had a choice to pick out their favorite one and they honestly could not choose only because they loved them all. The pieces are absolutely beautiful and a perfect fit for adults as well as preteens. They have such a peaceful sound.
Mary –
I loved the music that I purchased which was the Seaside Meditation, Eastern Harbour, and Mid-Air Meditation. They give beginner students pieces to play that are layered and seemingly complex without becoming complicated.
Sarah Miller –
This piece is great for late elementary/early intermediate students who need help developing artistry and emotion. The patterns in the music are also an invaluable help to students who struggle with ADD because it has a just a few patterns to remember. My students really appreciate that they can achieve beautiful playing with a song that sounds difficult.
Sarah Silvia –
I gave my student several pieces to choose from, and Eastern Harbor was her favorite. My student mastered it in just a few weeks, and played it with expressive flow. I’m so happy to be able to bring such lovely music to her and her family!