Deck the Hall With Audience Participation

• Level: Intermediate
• Pages: 6 pages, 4 pages of music, cover included!
• Style: Jubilant!
• License: Studio license – reproducible for students you directly teach
• Bonus: mp3 recording the piece with an audience
• Format: PDF instant download

This very festive arrangement of Deck the Hall can involve the audience in the music making! We all know that when we make music together, everyone has a fun time. So including this piece at a recital or public event is a fun way to get everyone involved and impress all who hear.

Your audience members will be smiling from ear to ear after this piece and will be delighted that they got to participate in the recital, too! Deck the Hall With Audience Participation can be played by a student or by the teacher. It can also be played with or without the audience participation element.

Do you have to incorporate the audience?

This solo can be played alone or with the audience. It’s up to you!

How will my audience know what to clap and when?

Before playing, tell the audience that everyone will be participating in this music! Tell them:

“You’ll tap and clap a simple rhythm throughout the A section. You’ll stop during the slower middle section. And then you’ll start again when the first section comes back. It’s really easy! Here’s what you clap!”

Then simply introduce the rhythm to the audience (it’s the same throughout and is easy to remember). Then, get the audience started and you (or the student) begins playing the piece once it is established. The audience continues the rhythm until you come to the B section where you will slow down a lot and the audience will naturally drop out. You’ll play a beautifully melancholy B section, and then the music will begin to build, culminating in a return to the familiar A section. Designate someone ahead of time to get the rhythm started by beginning to tap again at the designated spot. The audience will know what to do because you will have told them what to expect at the beginning.

We even include a PDF of the rhythm in large print on a single page in case you want the audience to see what the rhythm looks like.

What level is Deck the Hall With Audience Participation?

Deck the Hall with audience participation is intermediate level and is in the key of C Major. It modulates to the key of F Major in the B section and then back to C Major for the ending. The smallest note value are a few sets of two sixteenths, otherwise the smallest note value is the eighth note. The right hand plays some 4-note bell-like chords. The tempo of the piece requires the player to be confident and able to move around the piano fairly easily. Sound pedagogical fingering, clear pedaling, and specific articulations are included through the piece, just as it would be for a teaching piece.

What is a Studio License?

Deck the Hall with audience participation comes as a studio license which means that you only have to purchase it one time, and you are then licensed to print as many prints as you need for yourself or any student you directly teach! It’s like getting an unlimited supply of the piece since you never have to pay for it again, plus there is no shipping. You get the PDF and bonus mp3s in your email within minutes of your purchase.

Want more Audience Participation Pieces?

These pieces are changing recitals around the world! If you’d like other audience participation pieces, please check these out:

• Mob Bop – The original and super fun elementary piece!
• Yee-Haw – A fun early elementary piece with audience clapping
• Guy Eye – A mysterious and sneaky intermediate piece with audience clapping
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas – Cup-tapping with the audience is soooo fun!
• We Three Kings – Cup tapping
• He is Born – This is great with even a church audiences!
• Deck the Hall – That’s this piece!