- Level: Late Elementary
- Pages: 8 pages, 6 pages of music (3 pieces + 1 teacher accompaniment), cover included!
- Style: Energetic
- Bonuses: mp3 performance recordings included
- Format: PDF instant download
All Cooped Up Holiday is everything you’ve come to expect in Diane Hidy’s compositions. Not only is it festive and fun, but Diane’s careful attention to the needs of students and their small hands means this collection is packed with solid pedagogy. These three pieces are written in Diane’s Attention Grabber style which helps students learn more quickly and effectively, even in an online context. Several of the pieces quote from previous collections of All Cooped Up.
What Pieces are Included in All Cooped Up Holiday?
Included in your purchase are three pieces:
- Rushin’ Dance (from the Nutcracker)
- Deck the Coop
- Jingle Bells
Plus a teacher accompaniment for Rushin’ Dance is also included.
What Level is All Cooped Up Holiday?
All Cooped Up Holiday is late elementary level. The smallest note value is the eighth note. All of the accidentals are written in. There are no key signatures. One of the pieces includes optional pedaling.
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 Holiday 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 Holiday 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.
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All Cooped Up Holiday is the Fourth installment in this All Cooped Up collection that are full of mid to late elementary pieces. You can purchase following pieces to complete your set:
Gabrielle Tee –
Chick chick, hurrah! My students and I were hoping for a follow-up to the delightful Cooped Up Halloween. So happy to see Dotty back and decorating for the holidays! Thanks, Dianne.
Sonja Westberg –
So glad to have another edition to the All Cooped Up series! My students LOVE these solos, and the twists that they have to the traditional carols. I’m having two of my students (who happen to be sisters) playing the Rushin’ Dance together as a duet – the younger is playing the student melody, and the older is playing the teacher accompaniment. It’s a great way for them to be a musical team, and to practice the skills and independence it takes to put together their piece without me!
Angelina –
My students LOOOOVE these 3 pieces! Just the right amount of spin of uniqueness of the traditional carols we sing every year!!
Holly Kukkonen –
My students have really enjoyed the All Cooped Up series! One family did a clean sweep and played the original All Cooped Up, All Cooped Up Halloween, and All Cooped Up Holiday. I especially loved the way the chicken idea found its way into well-known holiday songs.
Emily Morgan –
These pieces are fun for the student and teacher alike! My students love singing along with “Deck the Coop”. Wonderful addition to holiday repertoire.
Julie Wyse –
This collection has been a huge hit in my studio. I’ve been giving them out to all my late elementary students and even some of my intermediates as sight reading. The pieces are fun and unique!
susan –
Great fun
Amber Saldivar –
These are so fun! I have a student who loves chickens and she was so excited to play these! These are also great for students who are tired of hum-drum, same-old Christmas carols and need something new and interesting. I appreciate Diane’s attention to pedagogical details in all her pieces! I’ve found that both the Rushin’ Dance and the Deck the Coop pieces are excellent for helping a student improve articulation skills.
Fiona –
All Cooped Up Holiday is a huge hit, especially with kids who have already learned All Cooped Up 1 & 2 (fondly known as “the chicken pieces”). One student said that the composer was “really clever to take an idea from another composer and even more clever to reuse an idea of her own. It’s efficient that way!”
Diana Turner –
My students and I have really enjoyed these wonderful arrangements! I’m not sure about the “late elementary” classification, though. I found that the Rushin’ Dance is appropriate for earlier elementary, as I had a student complete it quite successfully in a couple of weeks and she is just wrapping up her level 1 in the Alfred series. Deck the Hall and Jingle Bells definitely do require a higher level of technique and reading skills but are appropriate for students working on level 1-2 of RCM, for reference.
I’m looking forward to trying more of Dianne Hidy’s work with my students!
Nancy –
In the “All Cooped Up” series, I’ve been using the arrangement of “Jingle
Bells” for several of my adult students. We are all delighted with the harmonies and having something short and sweet to learn during really
difficult times. (In my neck of the woods, not only is the virus surging
but also we have survived the Almeda Fire that obliterated southern Oregon in early September. Sadness and loss are everywhere with the thousands of homes lost. Sometimes a new, short piano piece is a short escape from daily challenges.)
Eleni Pialoglou –
Me and my students loved all three pieces. Just the right amount for an extra piece for holidays.
Heather Millward –
I was so happy to have this addition to the All Cooped Up series. My students of all levels enjoy following Dotty’s story and find the music entertaining while fitting neatly into their little hands. The motifs are perfect skill builders. Already looking forward to the next installment!
Linda Sharp –
This is a perfect fit for online teaching.
Emma K Franklin –
Love the All Cooped Up pieces!
Audrey Smith –
The holiday music that I recently ordered from ComposeCreate.com has helped both students and I boost our spirits for the holiday season. I have assigned every single one of my students the holiday songs that I ordered from their website and they are all practicing the pieces which says it all! Another 5 star rating!
Melissa Toedtman –
These are stand out hits. Young students can learn these quickly with lots of lyrics and fingering to keep things going. The Rushin’ Dance duet is a great classic of this repertoire.
Chara –
Rushin’ dance is a favourite in my studio!
Mindy W –
Clever and joyful arrangements! In discussing the fingering passage in Deck the Coop with a student, I asked him why the composer numbered it as such (5, 4, 4,3) and his response was that we don’t have six fingers! He also shared that the left hand part of Jingle Bells is fun to play and sounds cool.