- Level: Late Elementary
- Pages: 5 pages, 3 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Jittery, animated
- Bonus: mp3 performance track
- Format:PDF instant download
Jittery is a piano solo that sounds exactly how a strong cup of coffee or caffeinated soda makes you feel! LH staccatos and a quick RH motive make this the perfect piece for those students who love to play fast. And the ways in which this piece explores so much of the piano (in an easy way) makes the student sound more mature.
What level is Jittery?
Jittery is a late elementary solo. The piece is in d melodic minor, with the accidentals written in so that there are no key signatures. The B section contains pedaling, held for the entire section so that students can focus on the notes.
This piece explores the many registers of the piano, but it is always done with repeating and earlier learned motives, making the jumps simple. In addition, the easy hand position is perfect for small hands or those not comfortable with playing outside of a five finger position.
The smallest note value is an eighth note.
Bonus recording included!
Jittery 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 in this Late Elementary Energy Bundle:
This series of late elementary pieces helps develop skills for this level with interesting motives that are fun to play, but that also explore the nuance that students need to be learning and demonstrating at this level. They are designed to be not too childish and not too adultish!
Transformation is included in a special discounted Late Elementary Energy Bundle that includes other pieces in this series:
- Transformation
- Minor Squabble
- Jittery (that’s this piece)
What is the Studio License?
Jittery 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.
Amber Saldivar –
My sophisticated and mature 11-year-old student loves playing this song! It sounds complex but falls under the hands easily. It’s super fun and spunky! Definitely sounds like a bunny hopping around. 🙂
jennie.flicker –
I absolutely love this piece. It’s contemporary sounding, gives students an idea of different kinds of harmonic patters that are a little out of the ordinary, it sounds difficult but easy to learn, and it gives them things to work on musically that are fun to do!
Helen –
A student had worked on A Distant Blue and Marigold. She requested “something fast and jumpy” for recital. So I found her Jittery. “You really did listen to what I wanted!” She loves it!