Burgeoning Blooms:
- Level: Early Elementary
- Pages: 4 pages, 2 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Laid back
- Bonus and Features: mp3 performance track; First notes have note names in them to help find position and learn note names.
- Format: PDF instant download
Frosty Morning:
- Level: Early Elementary
- Pages: 5 pages, 3 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Delicate
- Bonus and Features: mp3 performance track; First notes have note names in them to help find position and learn note names.
- Format: PDF instant download
Fading Firelight:
- Level: Early Elementary
- Pages: 5 pages, 3 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Warm and melancholy
- Bonus and Features: mp3 performance track; First notes have note names in them to help find position and learn note names.
- Format: PDF instant download
Flowering Fields:
- Level: Early Elementary
- Pages: 4 pages, 2 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Relaxing
- Bonus and Features: mp3 performance track; First notes have note names in them to help find position and learn note names.
- Format: PDF instant download
Beginning piano students that are learning to read notes on the staff don’t have to play music that sounds immature and silly. The Entering Beautiful Places 2 (this set) and Entering Beautiful Places 1 set of music helps ensure that these students are motivated by mature sounding and deeply nuanced music. Plus, note names are written in when a note or motive is first introduced, making it much easier to learn and reinforce reading throughout the week.
The Finding Beautiful Places 2 Bundle Includes:
Burgeoning Blooms – Early to mid elementary
Frosty Morning – Early to mid elementary
Fading Firelight – Early to mid elementary
Flowering Fields – Early to mid elementary
What is the Studio License?
The studio license for each of the pieces in this Entering Beautiful Places 2 Bundle licenses you to use this for yourself and any student you directly teach, for your entire lifetime of teaching! It’s like getting an unlimited supply of this music since you can print and use it over and over again. Plus there is no shipping since it is digital delivery. You get the PDF and bonus mp3 in your email within minutes of your purchase.
Bonus recording included!
When you purchase the Entering Beautiful Places 2 Bundle, you receive bonus mp3 recordings for each piece 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 Entering Beautiful Places Series:
The Finding Beautiful Places series is especially easy and helpful as hand positions are pictured, finger numbers are indicated on each note, and the hands are mostly on the black keys so finding the correct notes are easy.
The Entering Beautiful Places series always includes note names the first time a note is used. This is helpful for students just learning to read or needing to become more fluent in reading music on the staff. However, those “helps” are taken away and students then process these helps in a way that assists the in learning the notes on staff.
Both of these series is made especially for teens and adults as is part of our Music Adults Love® and Music Teens Love® collection – beautiful, mature sounding music that doesn’t sound like it comes from a child’s method book.
Other pieces and other collections in this series include:
- Finding Beautiful Places 1 – EE (Early Elementary) Music on the black keys; For those with no prior piano experience
- Finding Beautiful Places 2 – EE (Early Elementary) That’s THIS collection!
- Entering Beautiful Places 1 – E (Elementary) Music for those who are transitioning to the white keys or who need to review their white key note names
- Entering Beautiful Places 2 – E (Elementary) More music for those transitioning from black to white keys.
- In Beautiful Places – E (Elementary) Music for mid elementary students containing some across the bar line syncopation, but music that is still quite achievable and beautiful at this level
- Exploring Beautiful Places – LE (Late Elementary) Music for the late elementary pianist that contains eighth notes that are easy to feel and play.
Valerie –
Your second collections of Finding Beautiful Places and Entering Beautiful Places are just lovely! Perfect for my students of many levels—it allows more advanced readers to focus on expression (similar to the Nutcracker cups, where we could work on expression as a main focus since reading the notes was not a factor). It gives my struggling readers something big and beautiful to play. Thank you for making more in the series at this level!
Amy –
I was just thinking the other day how I hoped you would write more of the “Beautiful” series pieces. You must have read my mind. I think these pieces will keep many studios in business because they let early students play something big sounding. The kids will keep coming back for more. I started using Piano Safari for just this reason. Then I found your pieces and have been using them for the last few years. They never disappoint. Thank you for such fun music.
Lisa –
My kiddos really enjoy playing this music! I know this was intended for adults, but, everyone is really enjoying these beautiful pieces. One of my piano girls has a learning disability and feels like she is playing major pieces with the beautiful places music. I appreciate you and all the hard work you put into composing amazing pieces.
Keera –
I have all of the Beautiful Places series now, Finding Beautiful Places 1 and 2, Entering Beautiful Places 1 and 2, In Beautiful Places, and Exploring Beautiful Places. All of my students enjoy them. Even my more advanced kids like to play through them as a relaxing warm up. I recently started offering group workshops for beginner adults, and they love that these pieces sound beautiful and elegant.
Debbie Scott –
Yes, yes, yes to ALL of Wendy’s compositions. I purchased ALL the music presented in the Weird & Wonderful – Teaching Adults webinar and my students love it. They are beautiful, creative and my students love them. The big take away with Wendy is her passion for creating music that keeps students interested. This is obvious by not only her knowledge but the level of dedication and excitement in sharing her music, which is obvious in the webinars. Run, don’t walk, to share this great music with your students (and yourself)! Thank you Wendy!
Chris –
The music you are writing is one of the best current contributions to piano pedagogy that I’ve seen (and heard!)
Thank you Wendy! We needed your music!
Kyle –
“These pieces have been essential for my adult beginners that want to play something beautiful NOW! They don’t have time to wait years to play something stunning and these pieces help provide motivation alongside more traditional pieces/methods. These pieces are motivating and teach fundamental skills to set up your students for piano success.”
Kathy Vollmer –
It’s been my experience after purchasing two of your BeautifulPlaces “bundles “ that these have opened doors and filled needs for my younger and older students.
My adult learners take comfort in the fact their early attempts to play actually sound Mature and using the damper pedal takes the sound to a new dimension. My younger students too have benefited from this music….they can take pride in the more contemporary sound and can find pleasure as well. I love the beautiful art work that accompanies the pieces! An added bonus!
Carla –
I love the Beautiful Places & Finding Beautiful Places series! These wonderful melodies are beautiful, engaging, musical and my beginners love them, more advanced students are loving them, my adults love them! Thank you for sharing your creativity, May you continue to add to these series.
Peggy Flickinger –
Entering Beautiful Places allows older beginning students to play without the demand of note names. Rhythms can be learned more easily while navigating the keyboard by finger number. These are a great supplement when focusing on note names in other material to allow the student to feel successful. They feel like they are playing music, and they are, because of the flow and ease with which they can play these lovely songs. Thank you Wendy!
Betty Jo –
It appears that I will be having a Wendy Stevens recital at the end of May. My young and adult beginners are enjoying these expressive pieces that are easy enough to
put together in a short time. They are nice supplemental pieces to standard beginner method books.Even though they could be learned by rote, I appreciate that students become comfortable with keeping a steady beat, jumping octaves, putting focus on dynamics and the other expression marks that are so important in their playing, It also gives us a chance to focus on tone instead of constantly drilling notes and rhythm. This will give a nice spring mood to the recital.
Helen –
All of your Beautiful Places pieces have been wonderful for my teen and adult beginners! Sometimes they look at all those notes on the page and get very intimidated. Then I remind them that it’s from Wendy Stevens, and it will always have good patterns that will make it easy to learn!
Maribeth –
I and my students have been enjoying Wendy’s wonderful music for many years now. As soon as they are ready I introduce them to playing the beautiful music that is right under their fingers. The “Beautiful Places” bundles are the perfect way to start this adventure. Most students think, when they first see the music, that it’s too hard. But after they learn the first one they can’t wait to learn the next. For my Spring recitals this year I have 16 Wendy Stevens pieces being performed. I never miss a webinar when Wendy introduces new music. It’s a must have in a music studio. ❤️
Mary Majerus –
Wendy, I have some adult beginners and older students along with young beginners and you have hit the mark on beautiful sounding pieces that move around the keyboard, are pedagogically sound with patterns they can master easily while learning note names. The favorites are Summer Sky, Evening Rain and Ancient Forest for some. A new 5th grader loved Summit Reflections and Burgeoning Blooms because she managed a nice tone, dynamics and accurate rhythms. I will post a few of these on YouTube under our studio name, Mary Majerus Piano Studio. Thank you for helping develop good musicianship in younger or older beginners. It really motivates them!!
Brandi Persello –
My adult and teen students absolutely LOVE these pieces! They are simple, yet beautiful pieces that sound far more advanced than they are. Thank you so much!
Jennifer Kurtz –
I love all of the Entering Beautiful Places pieces and so do my students. They are perfect for beginners who are still developing their reading skills but just want to play “pretty music.” My beginning teens especially love them, and I am grateful because it gives them the courage to keep learning without sounding “babyish”.
Nancy –
I purchased Wendy’s collection of Entering Beautiful Places…a set of four elementary, on-staff
pieces. They are delighting my students !! One of my young ladies is playing Fading Firelight and
remarked that the melody makes her want to curl up in front of the fireplace !
I know I can count on Wendy to offer us music that is not only beautifully crafted but that has the ability
to touch the heart of a child……”Music Kids Love” for sure !
Cecilia –
My new elementary piano students enjoy the Entering Beautiful Places very much. Although they are still learning to read notes, they feel so accomplished having access to all the ranges on the piano. Learning to read notes can be difficult for students with learning issues, these series of pieces for beginners give learning to play the piano a new spin!!
Sarah Wise –
These were all a huge hit in my studio!!
Pamela –
One of my adult students is a very linear thinker, so expression doesn’t come easily to him. Your Beautiful Places series have been an amazing support for helping him to find his expression. In fact, when I asked a couple of weeks ago if he wanted me to assign his Autumn piece then or wait until your release, he said, “Oh, I’ll wait. I really love her pieces!” They do such a wonderful job of making beginner adults feel good about what they’re playing.
Rebecca –
My students couldn’t wait to start these! These are perfect for the level many of my students are at right now. I had a fun conversation with a 2nd year 5th grade student about “Flowering Fields”. She asked why the end of it sounded like “Evening Rain”. I told her that yes, it ends sounding like the same key as “Evening Rain”, but we also have other things like tempo, dynamics, phrasing that can make it sound completely different. She could hear the difference. We then proceeded to go through it phrase by phrase, and she identified a shade of purples/blues that each phrase sounded like to her! So fun.