- Level: Late Elementary
- Pages: 5 pages, 3 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Melancholy
- Bonus: mp3 performance track + QR code to access recording online
- Format:PDF instant download
You can almost feel the cold fog and see the gentle rocking of moored boats while patiently waiting for your own boat to bump into the wooden dock. Foggy Mooring is a somber and unhurried piece that allows students to explore the way dynamics and slight syncopation can allow both player and listener to really feel what’s happening. In this case, the use of dotted quarter notes along with the open fifths in the left hand allows students to feel the slow, small swells that push the boat towards the dock.
What level is Foggy Mooring?
Foggy Mooring is a late elementary piano solo. The piece is in D minor, which is indicated with a key signature. There are some modal inflections that are indicated with accidentals that give interest and depth to the piece. These accidentals are easier to play thanks to repeated patterns. Pedaling is indicated. The piece is in 4/4, and the smallest note value is an eighth note. Foggy Mooring is a wonderful piece for students to practice playing dotted quarter notes with eighth notes within a phrase. Dynamics are included.
The right hand plays both treble and bass clef, while the left hand plays bass clef only. Helpful fingerings are included, and keep hand position changes doable for this level even with the right hand changing position throughout. The left hand plays fifths throughout the entire piece, which also aids in allowing students to focus more heavily on the right hand movement, dotted quarter notes, and slight syncopation.
Bonus recording included!
Foggy Mooring 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!
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.
Foggy Mooring is included in this discounted Exploring Beautiful Places 2 bundle that includes three late elementary piano solos:
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- Quiet Retreat
- Sunlit Valley
- Foggy Mooring (that’s this piece)
What is the Studio License?
Foggy Mooring 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.
Kelly Jenkins –
Haunting and beautiful – perfect to recapture the interest of a busy teenager!
Kelli –
Got a moody teen? Give them Foggy Morning! Want your late beginner to improve their bass clef reading? Give them Foggy Morning! Want your student to develop a rich sound, but isn’t too hard? Give them Foggy Morning! Want your student to play something that will captivate the audience? Give them Foggy Morning! Want to hear your students play something you’ll enjoy hearing? Give them Foggy Morning! Can you tell I’m partial to this piece? I love Foggy Morning!
Lori Jessen –
My adult student loves this piece. It’s helping her be expressive and enjoy a sophisticated sounding piece that doesn’t stress her out because of technical requirements.