The Rabbit In The Garden Description:
- Level: Elementary
- Mood: Playful
- Pages: 3 pages, 1 page of music, cover included
- Format: Instant PDF download
- Studio Licence Bonus: Cover art, composer notes with mastery tips and “make it your own” suggestions
- Collections: The First Spring
Peek into the garden with “The Rabbit In The Garden”! This early elementary piece has a 2/4 time signature that mimics the cute rabbit hopping around looking for delicious vegetables. Students will have fun exploring melodies in both right and left hands in this playful piece.
The Rabbit In The Garden Level:
“The Rabbit In The Garden” is an early elementary-level piano solo. Hands-separate practice before putting hands together will help your students feel their arm weight shift to a bounce in the 2-note and 3-note slurs. To really hear the rabbit hopping, put a little extra weight (emphasis) on the first beat of each measure.
For extra exploration, your students can try playing the melody with the right-hand or the left–hand. Either way will sound good and it encourages making artistic decisions while playing.
- Mode: G Major (accidentals)
- Time Signature: 2/4
- Concepts: hands together, melody shifts between left and right hand
The smallest note in this piece is an eighth note and is part of either mini-scales or alternating notes.
The Rabbit In The Garden Bonus:
All sheet music comes with original cover art. “The Rabbit In The Garden” comes with “make it your own” suggestions for students to experiment with developing their own voice.
More About “The First Spring” Collection:
“The Rabbit In The Garden” is part of “The First Spring” collection that is designed for beginner students of various ages. Pieces are a mix of rote and level-appropriate note-reading at the elementary pieces (in one case when taught by rote).
These pieces explore a variety of concepts and several of the pieces are showstoppers for Spring recitals letting beginners of all ages feel like their pieces compare to much more advanced students.
Pieces found in “The First Spring” collection are:
- Jake Meets The Jack Rabbit: Elementary level piece about an unlikely (possible) friendship.
- The Rabbit In The Garden: Early elementary piece in 2/4 that mimics a cute rabbit in the garden.
- Time Of Renewal: Early elementary rote piece that explores 4th intervals. Fantastic as an impressive duet recital piece for this level.
- Puppy In The Park: A playful early elementary rote or elementary reading adventure for your beginner piano students that helps them recognize patterns.
More About “The First Winter” Collection:
To round out your elementary repertoire, Winter-themed repertoire, consider “The First Winter” collection designed for beginner students of various ages. Pieces are a mix of rote and level-appropriate note-reading at the elementary pieces.
These pieces explore a variety of concepts 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.
Sabrina –
My student really loves playing this piece at the moment. We worked at playing the scale in the key, clapping the rhythm, and she had a break through in her learning journey! She went from being intimidated to loving it and wanting to play it at the upcoming recital.