Jake’s Fishing Adventure

Jake’s Fishing Adventure Description:

• Level: Elementary
• Mood: Cheerful, Sad, Relaxed
• Pages: 4 pages, 2 pages of music, cover included
• Format: Instant PDF download
• Studio Licence Bonus: Cover art, tips and ideas for students
• Collections: The First Winter

One of Jake’s favourite Winter activities is going ice fishing with his family and saying hi to the fish in the water.  Students will explore Major and minor modes as the song progresses as our lovable Jake spends the day on the ice.

Jake’s Fishing Adventure Level:

“Jake’s Fishing Adventure” is an elementary-level piano solo.  This story-based piece is in 2/4 time to create a forward motion as Jake runs to and fro.  Students explore common chord bridges for this level.  Instead of a key signature, students will use the one flat (B flat) and one sharp (F#) written in the music.  Hands are kept in one position with one slight extension for a chord bridge.

• Mode: G Major, G minor (accidentals)
• Time Signature: 2/4
• Concepts: flat and sharp, stationary hand position, tied notes, staccato

Starting finger numbers are written in, as well as when hand position must shift.  The eighth notes are part of partial scale passages so students can easily flow from note to note.  The tied notes are for full measures and are constant for both hands.

Jake’s Fishing Adventure Bonus:

All sheet music comes with original cover art.  “Jake’s Fishing Adventure” also comes with tips for students to master the piece.

More About “The First Winter” collection:

“Jake’s Fishing Adventure” is part of “The First Winter” collection that is designed for beginner students of various ages.  Pieces are a mix of rote and level-appropriate note-reading at the elementary to late elementary (rote elements only) pieces. 

These pieces fit under the “sound harder they they look” category and several of the pieces are showstoppers for Winter recitals letting beginners of all ages feel like their pieces compare to much more advanced students.

Pieces found in “The First Winter” collection are:

• First Snow: Elementary to late elementary rote/note-reading showstopper for Winter recitals.
• The Blizzard: Elementary to late elementary rote/note-reading piece that brings the mystery and drama of a blizzard to Winter recitals.
• Jake’s Fishing Adventure: Elementary piece that captures the playful nature of Jake the dog as he goes ice fishing with his family.
• Snowflake And Rex’s Cookie Caper: Late elementary level story-based piece in which students explore creating stealth movement and circular wrist motions as they build drama throughout the song.