- Level: Mid to Late Elementary
- Pages: 7 pages, 5 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Energetic
- Bonuses: mp3 performance recordings included
- Format: PDF instant download
All Cooped Up Halloween is the third set of All Cooped Up pieces from Diane Hidy. These three pieces are written in Diane’s Attention Grabber style which helps students learn more quickly and effectively, even in an online context. These fun pieces will give kids something special during this less than stellar 2020 Halloween season.
What Pieces are Included in All Cooped Up Halloween?
Included in your purchase are three pieces:
- Chick or Treat (mid elementary)
- Creeping in the Dark (mid elementary)
- Dotty’s Nightmare (mid elementary)
What Level is All Cooped Up Halloween?
All Cooped Up Halloween is mid to late elementary level. In two of the pieces, the smallest note value is the quarter note. In Dotty’s Nightmare (the late elementary piece), the smallest value is the eighth note. Only Dotty’s Nightmare contains pedal that can be held down for numerous measures. There is no syncopated pedaling. Each of the pieces contains sharps, flats, and naturals. All accidentals are notated. There are no key signatures.
Bonus mp3 Recordings!
With your purchase of this studio license, you will receive bonus mp3 recordings of each of the pieces in All Cooped Up Halloween performed by Diane Hidy. You are permitted to send these example performance tracks to your students to help them learn the piece.
What is the Studio License?
All Cooped Up Halloween is delivered digitally (through your email receipt) and is studio licensed. This means that you can print and use these for any student that you directly teach for your entire lifetime of teaching.
Bundle and Save
All Cooped Up Halloween is the third installment in this All Cooped Up collection that are full of mid to late elementary pieces. Purchase the All Cooped Up Bundle to complete your set.
Gabrielle Tee –
This set may have been a true “student saver” this week! Had a student exhibiting all kinds of behavior problems in the lesson, but we figured out she needed a confidence boost, and her method books weren’t doing the trick. She LOVED Creeping Around. We made a goofy story (inspired by the artwork), and learned nearly the whole piece in one lesson. On the way out the door, she even said, “Everyone’s going to be so impressed with me!”
Nina DeKock –
I am looking forward to using these pieces with students next year, as they are quite fun! I also purchased the original All Cooped Up and the new All Cooped Up Christmas! I have a student performing songs from the original, in our local WMTA fall virtual concert. 🙂
Betsy Breaker –
My older beginners enjoyed these pieces for their main Halloween piece this year while some early intermediates had fun with them as quick hits for fall. Great collection!
Phyllis Pan –
All Cooped Up was a delight for my student. I was amazed I got him to learn all the pieces as set when he made the video. His favorite was Batnam Waltz. The silliness of the songs really got him through these difficult pandemic times. Thank you Diane! : )
Megan Hughes –
Hard to beat any of the All Cooped Up flock. There’s enough chicken character in the music to make it easy to spin a tale for each one. Who wouldn’t work hard to get the music of Dotty’s Nightmare to be full of anxiety?
Grethen –
this was so fun to share with my student! her family recently started raising poultry and she loved the idea of having songs to play for them!!! LOL
well done and very reachable for younger students
Jeanne Kent –
These three pieces are beautifully written at several different levels and are just perfect for Halloween. My student’s loved them!
Rachel Yanke –
Chick or treat was a great piece for our new fall virtual recital experience. Unique and motivating. We loved the staccato’s and creative lyrics. Another studio favorite in our library from Wendy! Thank you.
Christie Davis –
These 3 songs have been a hit with my late elementary and early intermediate students. I haven’t had many choices for this level to do at Halloween, in the past, so very glad to have such fun pieces, that sound so advanced. I have also used the regular All Cooped Up and they are also great!
Karen –
This is a great collection of songs for Halloween. Chick or Treat, in particular, was a big hit, as I have a number of students for whom it was the perfect level!
kathleen –
These pieces were a Godsend for this fall season. I’m doing online lessons only due to the pandemic and all the kids’ enthusiasm was severely lacking. These little pieces were just the ticket for my beginning readers and quite literally saved the day>
Vanesa Read –
My elementary students love Creeping in the Dark because they can play it fast and it sounds cool and difficult.
Audrey –
The Halloween pieces that I purchased (this and Ghastly Beast and Mean Little Monsters) were a big hit with my students! In fact, they are still wanting to play them even as we are soon approaching the holiday season. I strongly recommend them. A sure 5 star rating!
Deanna –
My students and I loved the Chicken-Themed Halloween music! I gave out the first piece to my sight-reading piano students and challenged them to use their reading skills and the recording to learn it in just one week. The next week, I listened to what they were able to figure out and then we did a fun Go-Go-Go-Stop activity. In the activity we skip around within the piece. I point to a new spot and they go directly there, then I point to a new spot and we jump around until we decide to stop. It was lots of fun as a sight reading exercise. I had several students who chose to learn the other two pieces as well and one who loved them so much that they chose to perform them in our annual Halloween Recital. Who knew that chicken-themed music could be so much fun!
Vanesa –
My elementary students love *Creeping in the Dark *because they can play it fast and it sounds cool and difficult.
Nick McAdoo –
I’m from the UK and I’m teaching my grand-daughter the ABRSM Grado One Performance Piano exam. ‘Dotty’s Nightmare(from All Cooped Up Halloween) was set as one of the alternatives to the main list of pieces. Although the title was a little off-putting, I needed something to contrast with an up-tempo 18th century gavotte and a Fats Waller-style version of ‘Chatanooga Choo Choo’m and this piece just filled the bill. The dream-like opening with full pedal and rubato for four glorious bars really sets the atmosphere together with the dramatic, staccato up-tempo sections and then more dream-like, pedalled interludes and ending high up with a glorious final chord that’s both staccato and pedalled!