What a Crazy Day!, composed by Kevin Costley, is an upbeat showcase solo for late beginners. This piece serves as a great opportunity for students to work on playing different articulations in each hand at the same time.
Toccata in Fifths, composed by Kevin Costley, is a fast and flashy showcase solo for late beginners. This pattern-based piece is fun to play, easy to learn, and sure to dazzle audiences!
Spooky Spooks, composed by Kevin Costley, is an easy mysterious solo for late beginners. This piece provides a great opportunity to work on articulations.
Raindancer, composed by Kevin Costley, is an upbeat showcase solo for late beginners that includes lyrics. This piece serves as a great opportunity for students to work on playing open fifths in various rhythmic patterns.
Eerie Evening is a late beginning level solo that explores the haunting sounds of harmonic overtones throughout the piano. Cleverly written, students will be amazed at the new sounds their acoustic piano can make! This piece might even inspire some new “ghost” compositions!
Across the Sea, composed by Robyn Fehrenbacher, is a student favorite for late beginners of all ages. This adventurous showcase solo is perfect for those who enjoy playing in minor keys, as well as a piece that sounds difficult but sits easily in the hands!
Song for a Friend is an easy lyrical solo for late beginners of all ages by Robyn Fehrenbacher. This gentle, rhythmic piece is ideal for recitals and provides reinforcement for developing internal rhythm and reading treble notes in G position.
All That Glitters, composed by Amanda W Smith, is an evenly-leveled, Celtic-inspired duet for two late beginners.
Enchanted is a mysterious solo for late beginners by Ava Heckmann who is a student of Karen Hunter. Students of all ages will enjoy this minor-key, eerie-sounding showcase solo.
Mucho Gusto is an upbeat, Latin-style solo for late-beginning violinists of all ages. Includes an energetic teacher accompaniment making this a great piece for recitals or other performance opportunities.
Midnight Bells Are Ringing, is a spooky spin on “Frere Jacques” arranged as an easy minor-key trio for late beginners by Jennifer Eklund. Perfect for Halloween or any time of the year when a spooky mood strikes! Includes separated parts and a full conductor’s stacked score for convenience.
Hit the Ground Running is a minor-key trio for six hands, one piano by Jennifer Eklund. This selection is ideal for late beginners of all ages and includes a full conductor’s score and the three separate student parts.
Dark to Light is a fast and flashy solo for early intermediates composed by Jennifer Eklund. This showcase piece serves as a great introduction to 6/8 time and sixteenth notes.
Dark to Light is a fast and flashy evenly-leveled duet for two early intermediates. Music by Jennifer Eklund.
Hit the Ground Running is a fast & flashy minor-key solo for early intermediates by Jennifer Eklund. This showcase piece is part of the Full Speed Ahead songbook.
Turn a commonplace lesson interruption into a teachable moment! Knuckleball is a piece based on a black key knuckle-roll pattern and serves as a great rote-teaching piece for late beginners of any age. Includes a spunky teacher duet part to maximize the fun!
Jazzy showcase solo version of When the Saints Go Marching In arranged for late beginners by Jennifer Eklund. This upbeat jazz solo includes MIDI and Mp3 backing tracks for full-time fun for all ages!
Labyrinth, composed by Rick Robertson, is an early intermediate level showcase solo. It has student appeal, and is suitable for recital or festival.
Jubilation, composed by Rick Robertson, is a celebratory, joyous solo. This flashy, motivating solo for early intermediate students of any age, is a great opening piece for a recital or festival.
Terrifying Trilogy is an eerie and mysterious three-piece set with Hitchcock-inspired titles spanning late-elementary to early intermediate levels. All three pieces are in an expanded C minor five-finger hand position. With fast-slow-fast tempo indications, the three solos work well as movements of a modern sonatina or as stand-alone material.
March of the Red Ants, composed by Kevin Costley, is an showcase solo for late beginners. This piece serves as a great opportunity for students to work on playing a steady bass line, triplets, and shifting between major and minor modes.
Opening Day, composed by Ron Levy, is an uplifting easy showcase solo ideal for late beginners and early intermediates of all ages!
Skeleton’s Waltz is a hauntingly delightful showcase solo for students composed by Chrisanne Nahum. You and your students will be humming this catchy tune all year round - not just at Halloween!
Chasing the Paints is an early intermediate showcase solo composed by Jane Tate. This fun and silly song is a showdown between horse and owner trying to catch her in the field.