- Level: Early intermediate
- Pages: 4 pages, 2 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Adventurous
- Bonuses: mp3 performance recording included
- Format: PDF instant download
October Song by Diane Hidy is a fun, adventurous piece in compound meter. This minor piece sounds similar to pirate music and helps students feel confident and proficient.
What level is October Song?
October Song is early intermediate. The piece is in A minor, and there are a few accidentals. October Song is in compound meter. The smallest note value is the eighth note. There is no pedaling required.
October Song is carefully edited to help teachers teach and students learn effectively and efficiently.
Bonus recording included!
October Song comes with a bonus mp3 performance 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 If You Purchase the Bundle
Please consider purchasing the Bundle of October, November, and December. With these three wonderful teaching pieces, you will also receive two amazing bonuses (in addition to the 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?
This piece 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.
Gabriele –
This piece has been a big hit in my teaching studio. I love how it supplements the 6/8 time units of my lesson books. I feel it has really helped my students with a light staccato touch combined with the more legato measures. It’s a student pleaser.