- Level: Elementary – quarter, halves, ties, syncopation, flats, extra-musical sounds
- Format: 6 pages, 3 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Creepy, mischievous
- Format: PDF instant download
You Don’t Scare Me Now will be a fun, loud surprise for everyone at the fall recital! The piece starts out creepy and slow, then picks up with a fun, easy syncopated melody with knocks, taps, snaps, and REALLY LOUD sound on the piano! But Wait!
The monster is invited to make the loudest noise that it can because “You don’t scare me now, you don’t scare me now!…I can make a bigger noise than you!” Students then play an amazing glissando (with the help of an index card) that wows the audience at the end!
Mega Hughes –
Wow! Real music! It’s like Ben Folds wrote a Halloween teaching piece!
Libby Weibel –
I gave this piece to 8 students! One squealed on the floor with excitement!
Sigrid Britton –
This has become my student’s “signature piece!”
Andria Nicolaou –
My student was crazy and soooo excited about it! He didn’t want to play anything else!
Erica Cherry –
I brought out “Something in My Piano” and “You Don’t Scare Me Now” this week and my kids are obsessed! Thanks so much!
Janette Rupert –
I wanted to let you know how much several of my students enjoyed playing “You Don’t Scare Me Now.” One performed it in the Halloween recital, and 3 others enjoyed it just for fun at lessons. I loved teaching it!
Cheryl Metcalf –
I love this along with Something in My Piano and It’s All About the Candy! They are delightful and easy to teach yet exciting for the students to be in the different octaves of the keyboard. The glissando is such an exciting way to end the songs as well! I’m so glad that I purchased the bundle of all three for now and future use!
Pam Robinson –
I have given this to 10 of my students who all love it. Great way to teach good composition skills
Kerri –
My students love this and I love it too – it gives them great exposure to tied rhythms!
Sarah Miller –
I gave You Can’t Scare Me Now to a student and he was blown away by the harmonies and got all excited by the glissando.
You write pieces my students love!
Susan –
You don’t scare me now is perfect for my more reserved Jr. High boy. I’m working hard with him to have him really learn to slam on the keys and play fff! I’ve really been enjoying this and Whriling Shadows!
Sally –
This piece spells success! I asked a student what she liked about it (she learned it in two weeks!) and the first words out of her mouth was that it is “modern”. I asked her what that meant, and she was comparing it to the music in her method books. She felt like she was playing a “real” piece of music and enjoyed the percussive elements of clapping, stopping, snapping and tapping.