Music and Teaching Materials by Susan Paradis
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 | (SP001) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music This is an elementary to late elementary piece with a change of positions in the B section. It is a good piece to get students out of C position in the left hand. Students like the minor sounds and it can be learned quickly. ... (More) |
 | (SP002) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music Shooting Star is fast and the hands stay in five-finger positions. This makes it easily accessible for students with limited technical skills. ... (More) |
 | (SP003) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Music This is an easy early intermediate piece with a swing rhythm and a jazzy feel. I recently revised it so I'm posting it again for ... (More) |
 | (SP006) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music This is a gentle pentatonic piece ... (More) |
 | (SP007) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music I wrote this for an older beginner. I wanted something expressive, simple enough for a beginner, and not childish. I have since used it with a lot of students and every one has liked it. ... (More) |
 | (SP008) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music If you have a little princess who is just beginning piano like I did, this will be the perfect piece for her. Written in middle C position, I hope the singable ... (More) |
 | (SP009) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music Written in the C minor 5-finger pentascales, this piece is easy to learn. A slow introduction of whole tones to give it an "outer space ... (More) |
 | (SP010) Level: Elementary Type: Music This is an elementary mysterious sounding piece ... (More) |
 | (SP011) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music This is a fast piece in D minor. Boys especially like the fierce dragon on the cover. The great thing about publishing your own music is that you can change it around. I.... (More) |
 | (SP012) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Poor Fuzzy Wuzzy is a beginning reading piece that comes from my book Sunny Solos. ... (More) |
 | (SP013) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a pre-reading solo with hands together. The words and photo come from my book Sunny Solos, but I wrote a new tune for a beginning student who was thrilled to be using both hands at the same time, and he loved the full sound. ... (More) |
 | (SP014) Level: Elementary Type: Music This is a soft and sweet piano solo that I hope your students will enjoy. It is from my soon-to-be-published book, Saturday Solos. This song contains steps and skips, and the right hand thumb is on middle D. Feel free to change the fingering to middle C position if you prefer. ... (More) |
 | (SP016) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music A Spybot is a robot who sneaks around spying on everything. Before you use this piece, check out the second page. It is more difficult than the first page. My students are always surprised, but I tell them you never know what you.... (More) |
 | (SP017) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Music This was on my website a few years ago, and I'm re-posting it. I wrote this for a middle school girl.... (More) |
 | (SP018) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music Students love jokes and satire. This piece has a funny title and it is fun to play. The A section is in G Minor position with some parallel fifths in the B section. If you work on i to iv in D minor, it is easier to learn. I notice I left off the fingering. Maybe you can do that for your students.... (More) |
 | (SP019) Level: Elementary Type: Music This is an easy Level 1 solo in C minor 5-finger position. It ... (More) |
 | (SP020) Level: Elementary Type: Music This is an easy arrangement of the well-loved children's hymn. The melody is a traditional English melody Royal Oak. ... (More) |
 | (SP021) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music I wrote this for a beginning older student to play in our Hymn Festival. This is an old hymn, but it has been recorded by contemporary Christian groups and many students are familiar with it. Since this is written for early level students, I changed the time signature to 6/4 so no eighth notes ar.... (More) |
 | (SP022) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music This ... (More) |
 | (SP023) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Here is an easy version of America the Beautiful, just in time for the Fourth of July. Students at this level usually haven.... (More) |
 | (SP024) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music This beautiful hymn that is a favorite of so many people..... (More) |
 | (SP025) Level: Elementary Type: Music There are many tunes to go with this text, but I like this one. I put it in the key of C Major ... (More) |
 | (SP026) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music I have set this traditional blessing to a simple melody. This is the pre-reading version..... (More) |
 | (SP027) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music This can be played alone, or with the duet I posted. ... (More) |
 | (SP028) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music This is the duet part to a traditional blessing. I ... (More) |
 | (SP029) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music This is an primer version of the famous melody by Beethoven. I have yet to find a student who doesn ... (More) |
 | (SP030) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is an Primer on-the-staff version of the pre-reading piece I posted last year. I changed the words slightly, and added new art and a very easy teacher duet. ... (More) |
 | (SP031) Type: Music This is a Primer level version of the Thanksgiving hymn. It has simple but meaningful words that children can understand. "Help us to do the things we should, to be to others kind and good. ... (More) |
 | (SP035) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal Here is another pre-reading piece for beginning students. If students get the right and left hands mixed up, try highlighting the right and left hand staves in different colors. ... (More) |
 | (SP036) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal Enjoy this short primer level piece with a teacher duet! ... (More) |
 | (SP037) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a pre-reading Halloween piece. ... (More) |
 | (SP038) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a pre-reading version which I have recently added some changes. ... (More) |
 | (SP039) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is one of my beginner.... (More) |
 | (SP040) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is the on-staff version of the pre-reading Halloween piece I posted earlier. ... (More) |
 | (SP041) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is the version on the staff. ... (More) |
 | (SP042) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is the grand staff version of the pre-reading piece I posted earlier. ... (More) |
 | (SP043) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal Another beginning Halloween piece. This one is not in landscape. ... (More) |
 | (SP044) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a traditional Halloween song I used to sing with my younger students when I taught elementary music. There's a lot to teach in this song, and I ... (More) |
 | (SP045) Level: Elementary Type: Music Here is a mysterious sounding piece if you want a minor piece that you can use now and after Halloween. Also, some students don ... (More) |
 | (SP046) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This a pre-reading version of the previously posted staff version. It can be difficult for a young child to read, so carefully teach how to sing it for several weeks before attempting to play it. Young students will have LOTS of trouble.... (More) |
 | (SP047) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a beginning reading Halloween piece with a simple teacher duet. ... (More) |
 | (SP048) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal If you have a new student in the autumn, this is something she can play at her very first lesson. ... (More) |
 | (SP049) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal I wrote this for a student's first piano lesson. There are no notes, the student just plays finger numbers and makes up an ending. Will they say "Boo" or "Trick or Treat ... (More) |
 | (SP050) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal Because of the skipping fingers, this pre-reading traditional folk song is better for at least age 7. This is a white key arrangement of the little song I played on the black keys as a child. ... (More) |
 | (SP051) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a version of the traditional folk song arranged for students who are beginning reading. There is also a teacher duet. Set your printer for landscape orientation. ... (More) |
 | (SP054) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a pre-reading piece for beginners to play for Thanksgiving. It is written for white keys using all the fingers. Follow the picture of the keyboard for hand placement. ... (More) |
 | (SP055) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a primer version of the carol. I used big notes to make it look easier. You can.... (More) |
 | (SP056) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is another new version. This year I each hand a different color note, red or green, removed the repeating finger numbers, and moved it out of middle C position. ... (More) |
 | (SP057) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is the first half of Deck the Halls for beginning students. There is only one skip, so it is an easy first Christmas song to play. The rest of the melody has a sharp that I thought might be too much for little ones. This has been updated with colored notes and a background for easy tracking..... (More) |
 | (SP058) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal I revised the entire page, including the art, the fonts, and the fingering. I hope you enjoy this pre-reading version! ... (More) |
 | (SP059) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is an elementary level version. There are no 8th notes, but there is some hands together playing to make it more interesting. ... (More) |
 | (SP060) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a traditional Middle C version of Jingle Bells. ... (More) |
 | (SP061) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal Teach the eighth notes by rote in this pre-reading version of We Wish You a Merry Christmas. This year I have completely revised this song. The note heads were enlarged and.... (More) |
 | (SP062) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is the on the staff version from a Christmas book I made a few years ago. ... (More) |
 | (SP063) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is an easy version of the famous carol with lots of finger numbers on the harder phrases. I usually have to teach the rhythm by rote. It is in the key of F and it scares some students to see a flat, but this is a good key to sing in, and maybe parents or siblings can sing or play along. ... (More) |
 | (SP064) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal Here is an easy arrangement of this favorite carol. ... (More) |
 | (SP065) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This pre-reading version contains verses one and two only. It is recently revised to make it easier to read. ... (More) |
 | (SP066) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is not the tune that is in common use in the US. However, it is a very lovely tune that is well-loved by many, especially churches in the Anglican tradition and in the UK. This might be the only pre-reading version of this song you will see, so enjoy! You may have to show your student.... (More) |
 | (SP067) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal Many teachers liked the pre-reading version of this, and requested I post it at the elementary level. In the version here, the melody is divided between the hands. There are eighth notes, but I taught them by rote and go so well with the words that it was not a problem. .... (More) |
 | (SP069) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music This is a late elementary arrangement of Deck the Halls. Students should be able to cross fingers and move the right hand to different positions. ... (More) |
 | (SP071) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is the first verse only, written in a pre-reading version. ... (More) |
 | (SP072) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a primer level version, with all the verses. The right hand thumb is on middle D and the left hand thumb is on middle C. I changed the meter in order to omit 8th notes. ... (More) |
 | (SP073) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal After I explain what this carol is about, children really enjoy it. This is a pre-reading version that you can use with beginners and young children. ... (More) |
 | (SP075) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is an elementary version of the beautiful Christmas carol, Silent Night. I usually teach the dotted quarter note by rote. ... (More) |
 | (SP100) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a pre-reading version on the traditional song. It is in G with the L.H. in middle C position and the R.H. thumb on D. ... (More) |
 | (SP101) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music If your young student is past the pre-reading stage, he or she might like this version. ... (More) |
 | (SP102) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music This is the same folk song as the 2 versions above, but I arranged it for ... (More) |
 | (SP103) Level: Late Elementary Type: Music Some of my late elementary students wanted a Valentine song, so I arranged this folk song for them. If you know this song, you can see that the dotted rhythms in the melody have been simplified for this arrangement. I kept changing things around, but I finally decided to post this version..... (More) |
 | (SP104) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a Pre-Reading Valentine ... (More) |
 | (SP105) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a very easy piece for students can read the notes in C 5-finger .... (More) |
 | (SP107) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal I made this for a beginning student in My First Piano Adventures (published by Randall and Nancy Faber) who started lessons right before Valentine ... (More) |
 | (SP150) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a pre-reading version of the favorite Children ... (More) |
 | (SP151) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a beautiful Easter carol that is simple enough for beginners. The words are by the same woman from Great Britain who wrote All Things Bright and Beautiful. ... (More) |
 | (SP152) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal My preschool beginner asked me to write him a song and since he has just started I wrote him this. It is in triple meter. Play it on the group of 2 black keys going up. For fun ask your student if she can play the shimmery lights of fireworks as they come down from the sky. ... (More) |
 | (SP153) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a pre-school beginning piece that can be used along with the Fourth of July piece I posted above. ... (More) |
 | (SP154) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a first piece to introduce playing quarter notes with two hands. If your young beginning student mixes up his left and right hand, the red and blue notes will help. You can also put a red and blue sticker on the hands for more reinforcement. ... (More) |
 | (SP155) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is another begnning pre-reading piece on the black keys with fingers 2 and 3. Print in landscape. ... (More) |
 | (SP156) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music One of my pre-school beginning students plays T-Ball so I wrote this pre-reading piece for him. T-Ball is baseball for kindergarten children. The ball is placed on a stand and hit by the child instead of having a pitcher throw it. Only 3 notes are used in this piece, C, D, and E. I.... (More) |
 | (SP157) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a piece for very young beginners. It ... (More) |
 | (SP158) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music I wrote another pre-reading piece for my beginning pre-school student and I am sharing it with you. I wrote the teacher duet to follow the rhythm of the student part because sometimes students have trouble playing along. ... (More) |
 | (SP159) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a pr-reading version of a traditional folk song that I made because children love to play songs they have heard. ... (More) |
 | (SP160) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is the companion pre-reading piece to What the Robin Said to the Worm, which is posted above. This piece is intended for young beginners. It is played on the group of 2 black keys using right hand fingers 2 and 3. Hint: Drop down into the keys with the hand. Don.... (More) |
 | (SP161) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal For my Canadian Friends, I have a pre-reading sheet just for you to use for Canada Day. This pre-reading song is in triple meter and is played on black keys going up the keyboard. Feel free to change the finger numbers. ... (More) |
 | (SP162) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This pre-reading of Hot Cross Buns is for the right hand on the black keys with really big notes. It is suitable for the first lesson. ... (More) |
 | (SP163) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Little children love to repeat things, so let them play Hot Cross Buns with both hands. This is just like the one I posted above except it is for the left hand. Check and see if they notice the picture has moved from the right side to the left side. I try to use blue for the left hand and red for.... (More) |
 | (SP164) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a pre-reading version of the children.... (More) |
 | (SP165) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a pre-reading off-the-staff Easter song about the Easer bunny. Students need to be able to use both thumbs, as well as alternate between the left and right hands. To help with this, I highlighted the left and right hand parts with different colors. That makes learning this a lot easier. ... (More) |
 | (SP166) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a very easy version of the pre-reading song, Easter Bunny posted above this. Print in landscape orientation. ... (More) |
 | (SP167) Level: Elementary Type: Music Sub-type2: Seasonal It is hard to find music for the Easter season. This version is for students in Primer or Level 1 method books. If your student has not learned staccato and legato yet, white it out. There are 2 pages and a very simple duet that a sibling or parent might be able to play. ... (More) |
 | (SP170) Level: Pre-reading Type: Music This is a prereading version of a children ... (More) |
 | (SP172) Level: Early Elementary Type: Music This is for pre-school students who are just learning the guide notes middle C and treble G. It is an extra piece to supplement a pre-schooler's book. Little ones don ... (More) |
 | (SP550) Level: Elementary Type: Music I had some students who could not remember the names of the bass clef line notes. After they learned the words to this song in More Sunny Solos, I noticed they finally could remember the bass clef lines. I decided to post it here to share with other teachers. ... (More) |