- Level: Late elementary
- Pages: 5 pages, 3 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Melancholy, with a strong B section
- Bonuses: mp3 performance recording included
- Format: PDF instant download
April Song by Diane Hidy is a beautiful musical journey through subtle shifts of major and minor chords. These tiny changes produce a beautifully mature sounding late elementary solo that falls easily under even small hands.
What level is April Song?
April Song is late elementary level. The piece is in G Major and includes many borrowed chords from other keys. All accidentals are notated in the music. There are no key signatures. Syncopated pedaling is notated throughout the piece. The smallest note value is the eighth note.
April Song is carefully edited to help teachers teach and students learn effectively and efficiently.
Bonus recording included!
April Song comes with a bonus mp3 recording performed by Diane Hidy. You are permitted to send this example performance track to your students to help them learn the piece.
Teaching Tips and Master It Faster™ Bonuses When You Purchase the Bundle
When you purchase the bundle of April, May, and June, you will receive receive two additional bonuses (in addition to the bonus mp3s):
- Diane Hidy’s Teaching Tips. This PDF is full of nuggets of amazing teaching wisdom from this master pedagogue. The tips are specific to these three pieces but can be applied to many pieces.
- Master It Faster™ files – These are individual, distraction-free PDFs that isolate the specific motives so that students can master the motives first. These motives are referenced in Diane’s Teaching Tips and this special handout helps students actually remember the special ways of practicing that help them Master It Faster™!
What is the Studio License?
April Song is delivered digitally (through your email receipt) and is studio licensed. This means that you can print and use this for any student that you directly teach for your entire lifetime of teaching.
Vivien Jackson –
This Month Song (like the others I’ve purchased so far) is great and is going down well with my older pupils playing at this level. Pieces with hand crossing always go down well and this is great piece for working on expression and dynamics as well as the concept of slowing down and reverting to the original speed.
Marilyn –
The April song has appealed to my adult student for its beautiful reflective melody. It gives the opportunity to explore expressive shaping of phrases and subtle dynamic nuances, and to work on effective rubato – just letting the phrases and performer breathe peacefully through the music. It gives a perfect chance to discuss major/minor tonalities and musical form. We both love playing this for its calming mood.
Caren Worel –
A big favorite with my students. So lyrical. Sounds hard . Plays easy
andreapdavis –
This song sounds so much harder than it is, and my students love that! Beautiful piece, wonderful addition to our repertoire!
Gabriele Burgess –
The interchange between major and minor arpeggios and chords worked perfectly with my early intermediate lesson material.
Debbi –
I have a student who is determined to learn every month piece. He can hardly wait until the next month to learn the new piece! This piece was great for him to work on his more reflective/expressive playing as he likes to perform everything fast and loud.
Trudi –
Beautiful, lovely piece that sounds more difficult to play than it really is. I have a middle school young lady who is practicing this for our recital this year, and she is loving it! It also a great piece to use in practicing crossing LH over RH, playing eighth note passages evenly passing between the hands, and overlapping pedal.