- Level: Early Intermediate
- Pages: 6 pages, 4 pages of music, cover included! Plus, you get a second PVG score with piano, vocal, and guitar chords included.
- Style: Determined
- Bonus: mp3 performance track + QR code to easily access recording online
- Format:PDF instant download
Sometimes we just want to begin again. Erase all the mistakes of the past and start fresh! If you need permission to begin again, and fall like the autumn leaves into a new era, then Falling to New is the perfect piano piece for you. In a beautiful pop style, but based on piano skills, this early intermediate piano piece calls to mind a daring hero or heroine stepping into their calling.
What level is Falling to New?
Falling to New is written in C Major and is written in common time. This piece is written in a pop style, with two verses of lyrics, a bridge, and chorus, accompanied by entrancing harmonies. The texture centers on the lyrics, and interludes between verses and the chorus contain hand-over-hand crossing and a cascading ending.
This piece is a great way to solidify chord inversions, and dotted quarter and eighth pairs, as well as syncopation. The smallest note value is an eighth note. The largest interval is a 7th. The player is directed to pedal harmonically, but pedal marking are included in the last few measures of the piece.
Bonus recording included!
Falling to New 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.
Plus, a QR code is included on the first page of the PDF (not pictured in the sample) so students can scan the code and it will take them directly to the performance recording of the piece. This can help them be inspired and learn the piece even more effectively without you having to send the mp3 to them!
What is the Studio License?
Falling to New 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.
Mary Barton –
I spent quite a bit of time this summer scouring the Internet and curating music that I hoped would motivate my students to practice. After amazing success introducing Wendy’s “Mid-Air Mediation” to one of my young teenage students who never practiced (see my review of that piece for more), I was faced with the dilemma of how to follow it up.
When I heard Wendy’s piece, “Falling to New” in one of her online webinars, I fell in love with it. It’s a comprehensive sounding piece with a variety of parts, a yearning beauty and insightful lyrics that one can’t help but sing! My student who never practiced has been practicing this piece like crazy, even though it is more challenging to learn than Mid-Air Mediation, and is even singing along with the lyrics when he plays for me in class! He can’t wait to play the whole thing and is determined to master it. He’s even playing it for his friends!
It seems to me that many children and teens these days are looking for some sort of cathartic experience from the music they are learning, and in my studio, I am finding that these two pieces provide that. Thank you, Wendy!
Patsy –
My students in the studio have really enjoyed working on: Top Dog, Leaf Surfing, Autumn’s Awakening, Autumn Glow, Hay Ride, Falling to New. We will be starting both versions of Over the River and Through the Woods, Deck the Halls, Sledding Shenanigans, and likely some others from the past. The students really enjoy working on your music. They find it easy to read, enjoy the colorful title pages, and older ones are using the QR codes as well.
Susan –
I started this piece with a few of my pupils starting new school years and High school. I love the chord structure and the rhythms – they are challenging but very catchy, and have really opened up more learning on time values. The piece has a lyrical quality which the pupils respond to and can hopefully try to express in their playing. I also found the recording helpful and a useful aid.