Hold It – Tune Up Tunes®

• Tune Up Tunes® Concept: Dotted quarter notes
• Level: Late Elementary
• Pages: 5 pages, 3 pieces of one-page music, cover included!
• Style: Lively, Tenderly, Covertly
• Bonuses: 3 mp3 recordings included
• Format: PDF instant download
• Series: Tune Up Tunes®

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Hold It Tune Up Tunes® contain three pieces that focus on the dotted quarter note in both the RH melody and LH accompaniment. Students will love the jazziness of Sticky Note, the intensity of Hold On, and the tenderness of Hold Me. There’s a wonderful variety of musical styles within these three pieces, giving students a fun way to practice the dotted quarter note! 

In addition, each piece focuses on the quarter note in just one position in the measure. So in the first piece, the dotted quarter is always on beat one. In the second piece, the dotted quarter is always on beat two. And in the third piece, the dotted quarter is always on beat three.

Included are these one-page pieces:

• Hold On!
• Sticky Note
• Hold Me

What Level is Hold It?

Hold It pieces are late elementary. The smallest note value is an eighth note, with a strong emphasis on dotted quarter notes in both the right hand and left hand. There are no key signatures written in, but accidentals are written throughout. Two of the pieces (Sticky Note and Hold On!) contain quite a few written-in accidentals. The “feel” of Sticky Note is similar to other jazz songs that make the dotted quarter note much easier to feel.

What is the Tune Up Concept?

This set of Tune Up Tunes® tunes up:

• Rhythm accuracy for dotted quarter notes
• In each piece, the dotted quarter is on a different beats: Piece 1 – on beat 1; Piece 2 – on beat 2; Piece 3 – on beat 3

What are Tune Up Tunes®?

Short Sheets® Tune Up Tunes® are collections of three, one-page pieces to help your students improve their skills in specific areas that students typically struggle. Tune Up Tunes® are part of our Short Sheets® collection which helps motivate busy students who need to learn music quickly. These shorter pieces help give students quick wins as well as help expose them to reading more different kinds of music which improves their reading skills.

Hold It is part of both Tune Up Tunes® (which focus on specific problem areas) and Short Sheets®. This series is excellent for: 

• Online lessons (they are easy to teach)
• Summer lessons (they are fun and don’t take as much time to learn)
• Sight reading
• Students with short attention spans
• Young students who are afraid of lengthy pieces (you’d be surprised at how many of your student balk at 2 page pieces)
• Busy students (isn’t that all students these days?)
• Students who want to learn an awesome piece of music quickly

And as a teacher, you’ll love Tune Up Tunes® because you know that you are giving students sound pedagogical music that helps improve specific skills with which students typically struggle. 

Are there bonuses to Hold It?

Yes!

When you purchase Hold It Tune Up Tunes®, you will receive a bonus mp3 recording of each of the three pieces. This can help your student learn the piece more quickly. You are permitted to send these example performance tracks to your students to help them learn the piece.

What is the Studio License?

Hold It 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. It’s like getting an unlimited supply of Music Kids Love®!

Want more Short Sheets® or Tune Up Tunes®?

We have many sets of Tune Up Tunes® and Short Sheets®. Check out the Short Sheets® and Tune Up Tunes® collection here.

Or purchase the discounted Tune Up Tunes Bundle #1 here.