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
• Series: Entering Beautiful Places – Set 1, Set 2

Melancholic and beautiful, Fading Firelight sounds much like its name. There is a sense of forward movement thanks to a note being played on almost every beat of the piece, in the same way the fire continues even as it grows smaller and smaller. Dynamics and shifting registers allow students to communicate the fire growing smaller and less intense, making it a fantastic exercise for dynamic contouring. Students will love the challenge of communicating the title, the mature sound, and the repeating patterns that allow them to learn this piece quickly.

What level is Fading Firelight?

Fading Firelight is an elementary level piece. The smallest note value is a quarter note, and it is written in common time. The pedal is held down throughout. Multiple registers are explored, but always with patterns that have already been introduced. The hand position does not change throughout the piece.

There are helpful note names written in for notes that may be unfamiliar – this allows students to play notes that give the piece depth and maturity, while setting them up for successful home practice. This piece is written in e minor, but no key signature is written in – instead, accidentals are written throughout. 

Bonus recording included!

Fading Firelight 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 Entering Beautiful Places Series:

Fading Firelight is a part of the Entering Beautiful Places series that gives older students (like teens and adults) who are just learning to read music or just learning to play piano beautiful, mature sounding music. This series features only Music Adults Love® and Music Teens Love® – beautiful, mature sounding music that doesn’t sound like it comes from a child’s method book.

Entering Beautiful Places 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.

The 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) More of the same kind of music as above.
• 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. Fading Firelight is part of this set.
• 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.

What is the Studio License?

Fading Firelight 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.