- Level: Early to Mid Elementary
- Pages: 5 pages, 3 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Reflective and driving (Moving Forward)
- Bonuses: 3 mp3 recordings included
- Format: PDF instant download
This set of ComposeCreate Short Sheets™ features 3 mature and contemporary sounding pieces about living life. These pieces are especially suited for the older beginner because of their sophisticated sound. But even with the sophisticated and mature sound, the pieces are easy to play for beginning and elementary level students.
These pieces are especially effective for busy adults and teens who want to learn things quickly and feel a quicker sense of accomplishment. They are especially helpful in giving the student more but shorter repertoire to play which helps them advance more quickly.
Included are these one-page pieces:
- Unhurried Day
- Waves of Worry
- Moving Forward
What Level is the Living Life Collection?
This collection of one page pieces are all early to mid elementary level. The smallest rhythm value is the quarter note. There are no accidentals in any of the pieces.
The pieces in the Living Life collection are mostly in C position.
Clear fingering is indicated to help piano students find unexpected notes quickly.
What are Short Sheets™?
ComposeCreate Short Sheets™ are collections of 3 one page pieces to help motivate your busy students who need to learn music quickly. These sets of one pages pieces are 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 Short Sheets because you know that the more music students learn, the better their sight-reading skills!
There are bonuses?
Yes, though this Living Life Short Sheet™ collection is available at an inexpensive price, you still will receive bonus mp3 recordings of the performance of these pieces. No voiceovers are included on these mp3s, so these can help students learn the rhythms and the feel of the piece more quickly. You are permitted to send these example performance tracks to your students to help them learn the piece.
Valerie Alfonso –
My 13 year old loves them. She has created her own piece based on Unhurried Day. 🥰She keeps playing it on her own, so I know it’s a win in our house!
Kerri –
These are wonderful! Short pieces that are just enough of a challenge and also sound beautiful. Wendy has made it easy to teach in these uncertain times. Thank you, Wendy!
Gabrielle Tee –
Taught “Moving Forward” to an 8th grade girl who is usually ‘too cool’ to work on anything but pop and rock tunes. This composition was perfect. Wendy is so insightful to know that ‘early elementary’ doesn’t always mean the student is IN elementary school! Thank you for creating age-appropriate materials for older beginners.
Nancy Arnold –
Waves of Worry from this set is a big o’ favorite of young and old alike.