- Level: Mid to Late Elementary (the primo is easier than the secondo)
- Pages: 2 page piece; 2 files provided (primo and secondo) each with 4 pages, cover included!
- Style: Mysteriously
- Bonus: mp3 performance recording
- Format: PDF instant download + mp3
The Chicken Bone Dance features a mysterious, spooky dance that gets the chickens grooving! Students will love how the dynamics tell a story of how the dance is going, and the way they can feel the groove themselves on the keys with their duet partner!
What Level is Chicken Bone Dance?
Chicken Bone Dance is a late elementary piece in common time. The eighth note is the smallest note value, and the primo is slightly easier to play than the secondo. This is a wonderful solution to the problem piano teachers experience so often – no two students are ever at the exact same level! There is no key signature written in, but flats and sharps are written throughout.
Plenty of staccatos, slurs, accents and helpful dynamic markings make this both an excellent teaching piece and a fun Halloween duet. The piece is carefully edited with meticulous fingering to help enable the students to play accurately and musically.
Bonuses
With your purchase of this Chicken Bone Dance studio license, you will receive:
- A bonus mp3 recording of Diane Hidy and her student performing Chicken Bone Dance. You are permitted to send this example performance track to your students to help them learn the piece.
What is the Studio License?
Chicken Bone Dance is delivered digitally (through your email receipt) and is studio licensed. This means that you can print and use this piece for any student that you directly teach for your entire lifetime of teaching.
Bundle and Save
Chicken Bone Dance is one of three All Cooped Up duets that are especially fun for Halloween events. You can get an even better value by purchasing them all together as this All Cooped Up Halloween Duets Bundle.
Melody Suter –
Once again this has become a hot favourite among my students. Most of them live on farms and they are masters of the art of describing their chickens get up to mischief – so they love this piece. Thank you Diane and Wendy.
Teresa Hermiz –
We recently had a Halloween recital- our most enjoyable recital ever! My students came in costume and each one played a Halloween piece many of which came from ComposeCreate. This Chicken Bone Dance duet, performed by sisters who bowed /curtseyed to each other at the end and then to the audience, was a big hit. Teaching these fun Halloween pieces was a pleasure for me as the children loved them and patiently endured my demanding standards.
Dianne Saichek –
This was an excellent piece for teaching accidentals to an advanced beginner. Hearing it come together was surprising for the student—we haven’t done many duets but now I’m a believer in that collaboration, even with the least advanced students, to enhance musicality. Conversations around ‘interpretation’ are fruitful with ALL students. Thank you, Diane Hidy!
Kathy G –
I got a kick out of my Advanced Intermediate student wanting to learn this. She has chickens of her own and has loved learning the earlier All Cooped Up pieces, even the super easy ones. This was our first duet played in person since COVID and we both had fun learning and playing it.
Kirstin –
I love that this piece has different levels for Primo and Secondo, making it an easy piece to play as a teacher-student duet, or for siblings who are older paired with a younger sibling. We are scheduled to learn this in our next studio duet class in July, and I cannot wait!