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

There’s a quiet excitement that comes with a new season – the first frost, or first blooms, or first leaves changing colors. All of these remind us a change is coming. Frosty Morning makes it easy to imagine waking to a frost-covered lawn, bundling up, and discovering a whole new world out your door. Students of all ages will love the twinkling, frosty sounds they’re able to pull from the piano in this piece!

What level is Frosty Morning?

Frosty Morning is an elementary level piece. The smallest note value is a quarter note. The piece centers around A Major, but no key signature is indicated. Instead, all accidentals are written throughout. There are two small hand position changes in the piece – both are indicated with a circled number so that students know their entire position changes. 

Repeated patterns are used throughout the piece so that multiple registers can be explored easily and with confidence. The damper pedal is held throughout, adding to the mature sound of the piece. 

Bonus recording included!

Frosty Morning 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:

Frosty Morning 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. Frosty Morning 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?

Frosty Morning 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.