Violin Rap and Fiddle Drum

It was all about the beat today  at Holy Family Fiddle Project. We  began with a rap before turning our violins upside down to make drums .  We worked on 4 of our rhythms before bowing them.  Which is your favourite .  

Comhghairdeachas leat! Bhí sibh ar fheabhas!  I was delighted to see so many Holy Family  students contest the Amhráníocht  Class at Feile na hInse on Tuesday. Great songs!  and you all  looked so smart in your pink and grey uniforms.  Angel, Nicola and Shannon made it to the final.  The winning song was Mo Gile Mear sung by a girl from Scariff. Well done to Ms Griffin and Ms Loftus.

Drum Major 

 Violin Rap Part 1

Music Has a Steady Beat Can You Feel it in your feet

Hear the music in the band, Can you feel it , clap your hands

Now let me show you a clever trick, can you make your fingers click

No feel the beat is what I said , Can you think it in your head 

4 rhythms  2 Kil-fen-or-a Ceil-i Dan-cer , 3 Win ter time in Rus-sia

Feile na hInse Amhranaiocht Finalists 

 Improvers Group No class due to Maths reschedule 

Spring

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check out this link for a story about Brigid and music from National Library of Ireland It was a cold and frosty morning on the second day of February .  Click on the link above to read this great musical story about one of our best known saints  whose feast day was yesterday.

Blues

We heard the first section of Spring a piece for strings by Vivaldi, an Italian composer who we met at the start of the programme.  Here are some of the terms we learned .

 piano    soft
forte      loud
Tremelo move your bow very fast forward and back
trill        swapping between two notes very quickly to make a birdlike sound

solo       one instrument

Performing
Blues (Notes on last week's post)
Up and down the D ladder 
New Rhythm Bow River 
Cross Lake Blues

First Finger Riff

Ms Gill's class did a great job in packing everything away. Thanks all .

We had some great leaders today. Andrea  and Brandon aquitted themselves very well. Thanks to Rosin and Claudia who acted as assistants today