The Next Step in Your Creative Journey: Exploring Skills for Improv to Composition, Method Book

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Take your students beyond improvisation and into true composition!

This resource includes 31 two-page lessons that introduce a specific skill, provide a creative prompt, and end with a Next Step Challenge to help students shape their ideas into full pieces.

With styles ranging from classical to pop, jazz, blues, Latin, and more, this book is flexible, teacher-friendly, and designed to spark creativity while reinforcing essential piano skills. Perfect for late elementary through intermediate levels.

What’s Inside:

- 31 ready-to-use lessons
- Covers scales, chords, rhythms, progressions, riffs, and more
- Includes The Composer’s Toolbox checklist + Tips for Engraving Your Music
- Audio recordings of sample improvisations and backing tracks for creative play
- Two-page format: easy to print, share, or assign
- Studio License included — use with all your students

Why teachers love it:

  • No extra prep—just print and play.

  • Flexible: use with individuals, groups, or as creative breaks in lessons.

  • Builds real musicianship skills while keeping lessons fresh and fun.

  • Helps students gain confidence as improvisers and budding composers.

By the end, students will have a toolbox of ideas & skills—and the confidence to turn their improvisations into finished pieces.

Included for FREE → Download the Audio examples and Backing Tracks here.

How long? 69 pages.

What level? Late Elementary to Early Advanced.

This is a STUDIO LICENSE: One purchase - One person is allowed multiple copies for students in their Studio. Please encourage other Teachers to purchase their own copy. Thank you for honoring the creativity and work of the composer.

Take your students beyond improvisation and into true composition!

This resource includes 31 two-page lessons that introduce a specific skill, provide a creative prompt, and end with a Next Step Challenge to help students shape their ideas into full pieces.

With styles ranging from classical to pop, jazz, blues, Latin, and more, this book is flexible, teacher-friendly, and designed to spark creativity while reinforcing essential piano skills. Perfect for late elementary through intermediate levels.

What’s Inside:

- 31 ready-to-use lessons
- Covers scales, chords, rhythms, progressions, riffs, and more
- Includes The Composer’s Toolbox checklist + Tips for Engraving Your Music
- Audio recordings of sample improvisations and backing tracks for creative play
- Two-page format: easy to print, share, or assign
- Studio License included — use with all your students

Why teachers love it:

  • No extra prep—just print and play.

  • Flexible: use with individuals, groups, or as creative breaks in lessons.

  • Builds real musicianship skills while keeping lessons fresh and fun.

  • Helps students gain confidence as improvisers and budding composers.

By the end, students will have a toolbox of ideas & skills—and the confidence to turn their improvisations into finished pieces.

Included for FREE → Download the Audio examples and Backing Tracks here.

How long? 69 pages.

What level? Late Elementary to Early Advanced.

This is a STUDIO LICENSE: One purchase - One person is allowed multiple copies for students in their Studio. Please encourage other Teachers to purchase their own copy. Thank you for honoring the creativity and work of the composer.

Wondering what these prompts might sound like? Here are a few….