Rabbits and SnailsWeek 2

Today we practiced holding our violins in rest and play positions . We played pizzicato  on G and D . Ms Loftus and her class moved on to A . We played short and long notes for Twinkle Twinkle .  Can you remember what words had long notes .

**New today**  Carrot pencils and bunny rabbit hands. Using our right hands we practiced making snail shapes and bunny rabbit hands before biting down on our carrot pencils.

            Things to remember  Bend your thumb
            Fingers well over the pencil to make those bunny rabbit teeth

New Today  Our First Rhythm Win ter Time In  Rus -Sia

V  V  l  l  

An Excellent Leader

Bunny rabbit hands

Three great bow hands 

                                We had some very good leaders today including Wiame ( Mr C)  Damilola (Ms Leahy) and Cormac (Ms Loftus)

Next week  Bow hold and our first two note tune and a guest artist . Looking forward to it already !

Improvers Group
Group 1 Twinkle and Old macDonald   Bruno, Brandon , Dami , Doreen, Sophie, Emilia,
Group 2 Leaving Lismore Band tune  Ben, Brendan, Emmanuel, Claudia, Hayley, Ailish

 

Away We Go : Rest and Play

Great Day At Ennis 

We had a very exciting day at Holy Family Senior School Ennis  as all the 4th classes began the HFSS String  2012 programme .    Well done to the classes of Mr Griffin,, Mr Corbett and Ms Loftus .  Super attention and concentration in the first class today!

We learned the name of all four strings today.

We learned how to hold the violin in rest and play position .

Thank you to Preincipal, Ms Barnes', who called in to wish us well.

Demonstrating the Double Bass

Away We Go in Rest Position

*Mr Corbett's class  met all three members of the bowed string family.  can you remember what they were  (C_ _ _ _ . D_ _ _ _ _ _B _ _ _) ?

*We learned about low pitched and high pitch . What  is the lowest pitched string  on the violin. ?

*We learned to hold our violins in two positions ,  (a) rest and (b) play position.

We played pizzicato ( plucking the string on  lowest string G to Old McDonald track 18)

*We learned the names of all four violin strings (see above)

*We practiced a bow . 

BRAVO TUTTI !

Improvers' Group

10 students

1 Ben, Dami, Doreen, Brandon

2, Claudia, Emmanuel, Brendan, Ailish, Hayley, Emilia

Revision of Tunes 

Old MacDonald and Twinkle 

New Note C natural  (2nd finger back on A string) 1^2 

Exercise 'Jaws' Start with 1st finger on A . Place your 2nd finger next to it to make C natural . Repeat to make the 'Jaws' theme 

1---^2   1---^2   1^2 1^2 1^2

Make sure your second finger is touching the first.

Slurring  two notes in one bow 

Holy Family Strings Year 2

****Announcing 

Holy Family Strings 2011 -2012

Principal Sarah Barnes and the Board of Management of Holy Family Senior School announce the continuation of the Violin For All Programme for all incoming 4th class students as part of the Holy Family 4th  class  school curriculum .

Classes begin next week Tuesday 18th September and will continue weekly.

An optional  Play On  improvers group drawn from last years 4th class  will meet also on Tuesday. 

Graduation Day

 Congratulations to the 4th class students at Holy Family School who took the improvers' course  over the last six weeks. I can't make up my mind which picture is best so I am posting both. Here is the group with their completion certs.

Following on from the beginners programme where every 4th class student had a weekly lesson, the group of sixteen players had  optional weekly lessons as part of the continuation of the Holy Family String Project . Each each player had an instrument on loan to take home for practice .  I am delighted with the degree of enthusiasm shown by the students and I am very proud of the progress you have made.

  Sophie said. 'I love playing the violin. I really want to be in the band and learn more tunes'

Emelia said ' I love playing the violin. 'Twinkle Twinkle is my favourite'

Quack Quack Here !

Programme Today

 1  Scale on D    Rhythm    Wintertime in Russia

 2  Twinkle Twinkle    remember   2 and 3 close together

 3   Blues

  4  Rhythm   Bow River       5  Hopping and Skipping

New Today

6  Old McDonald    2 strings 3 fingers

Line 1  3       3   3     D(0)    1  1  0__    1 1 0 0  3_____

       Old Mc   Donald  had a farm      E I E I  O    
Line 2  repeat  

Line 3        3  _____________________________________
       Quack  Quack Here   Quack Quack There

        Here-a quack  There-a-quack Every where a quack quack
Line 4 same as Line 1 and 2

No time today for the two other rhythms and Beguine
                                           
Absent Sineid, James

New Note F # ( F sharp  2nd finger down on D)

Work this week

Scale on D

Blues
Twinkle
 Bow River Rhythm

First part of Frere Jacque  D E F# D
                                       0 1  2   0


For Sophie
Bridal March

D G G ____ D A G___ D G B D B G E G A F#
0 3  3           0  0  3      0 3   1  3   1 3 1 3 0  2____

Bits in Blue are on A String

Super Waltzers

Boil em Cabbabge 

Both groups on our Bow River rhythm  

Long -----Short short 

We worked on a new tune with this rhythm 

Boil em Cabbabge 

Here are the fingers on the D string 

2  22    2    22   3  33 3  33  2   22  2   22  1  11   1   11

2  22    2    22    3 33  3  33 2   22  1   11   0  00  0   00