Start Your Engines – Short Sheets®

• Level: Late Elementary
• Pages: 5 pages, 3 pages of music, cover included!
• Style: Daring, Energetic
• Bonuses: 3 mp3 recordings included
• Format: PDF instant download

This exciting set of ComposeCreate® Start Your Engines Short Sheets® features 3 late elementary pieces vehicles with engines! These fast paced solos will thrill any student who loves monster trucks, fast cars, motorcycles or being a daredevil. One piece even contains two exciting glissandi which can easily be executed with an index card.

These pieces and other Short Sheets® are particularly effective for busy students, online lessons (since they can be taught faster), students with short attention spans, and online lessons since they are only one page long. In addition, the pieces are excellent ways of helping students progress more quickly or give them the sense that they are indeed progressing while reviewing important concepts. Each of the pieces is carefully edited with ample fingering and articulations  so that students can also learn these pieces easily on their own. The pieces are also excellent sight reading material and good review pieces for summer lessons or for transfer students. 

Included are these one-page pieces:

• Daredevil
• Monster Truck
• Stop and Go

What Level is the Start Your Engines Collection?

The pieces in Secrets in the Trees are all late elementary. The smallest rhythm value is the eighth note. The pieces are in G position and have sharps and flats written in. The pieces are primarily in G minor with exciting things like glissandi, and fun hand position changes that make them flashy and impressive! All pieces are carefully edited to be solid piano pedagogy material.

What are Short Sheets®?

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 (including Start Your Engines) 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! 

Are there bonuses to Start Your Engines?

Yes, even though the price is incredibly low (see what you can do with this under “What is the studio license?”) we still are including bonus mp3 performances of these Start Your Engines pieces with your purchase. You are permitted to send these example performance tracks to your students to help them learn the piece.

What is the Studio License?

This set of pieces 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®!