Fragrant Stroll

• Level: Early Elementary
• Pages: 4 pages, 2 pages of music, cover included!
• Style: Bright and sunny
• Bonus and Features: mp3 performance track; Black key; Hand positions pictured
• Format: PDF instant download
• Series: Finding Beautiful Places – Set 1, Set 2

Fragrant Stroll is a peaceful, calming piece that easily allows students to paint a picture with their playing. The right hand moves by step, and sounds much like footsteps on a leisurely walk. The left hand holds “cluster chords” of dotted half notes that sound much like taking a moment to breathe in the smell of new blooms. During the B section, the roles are switched – and now the right hand is the one taking its time to stop and smell the roses.

Allowing your students to make up a story around these details gives them a chance to connect to the piece: is it a couple walking, and different blooms stop them at different times? How would different smells sound – the smell of honeysuckle vs pine?

What level is Fragrant Stroll?

Fragrant Stroll is an early elementary piece, on mostly black keys (two white keys). The smallest note value is a quarter note. The hand position falls naturally under the hand, and doesn’t change. This piece stays in one octave throughout, giving students a chance to focus on shifting back and forth between the right and left hand playing the melody at different times.

“Cluster chords” of three notes are used throughout in the left hand – these do not need to be played perfectly at the same time (and likely won’t be with early beginners) to still give the same full effect. The damper pedal held throughout the piece helps add maturity to the sound, and can help mask uneven playing of those chords in the left hand. Finger numbers are placed throughout the piece to help students have successful home practice.

Bonus recording included!

Fragrant Stroll 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 Finding Beautiful Places Series:

Fragrant Stroll is a part of the Finding Beautiful Places series that gives older students (like teens and adults) beautiful music that doesn’t make them sound like a child. This 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. This 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.

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. Fragrant Stroll is part of this set.
• 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.

What is a Studio License?

Fragrant Stroll 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.