Time Flies – Tune Up Tunes®

• Tune Up Tunes® Concept: Simultaneous legato and staccato in both hands
• Level: Mid to Late Elementary
• Pages: 5 pages, 3 pieces of one-page music, cover included!
• Style: Energetically
• Bonuses: 3 mp3 recordings included
• Format: PDF instant download
• Series: Tune Up Tunes®

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The Time Flies Tune Up Tunes® focus on staccato playing in the left hand, with legato in the right hand. The clock-like “tick tock” sound in the LH makes the connection to the staccato notes easy to feel. The theme and sound of time is also helpful for students who want to rush the staccato notes! Thinking of a clock, much like a metronome, can help students to keep the beat steady while playing staccato notes.

Included are these one-page pieces:

• No Time is Homework Time
• Clock is Ticking
• Perpetual Motion

What Level is Time Flies?

The Time Flies pieces are mid to late elementary. The smallest note value is a quarter note, and there is no pedaling. There are no key signatures written in, but accidentals are included throughout. Hand positions are fairly stationary, so the focus remains on the legato/staccato playing.

What is the Tune Up Concept?

This set of Tune Up Tunes® tunes up:

• Staccato and legato – playing simultaneously
• Reading “out of position”

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.

Time Flies 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 Time Flies?

Yes!

When you purchase Time Flies 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?

Time Flies 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 Tune®s and Short Sheets®. Check out the Short Sheets® and Tune Up Tunes® collection here.

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