Mid term review Five Musical Tasks

Banjo player Killian Shannon

Today we reviewed the work of the last five weeks . We were joined by a familiar special guest Mr Shannon on tenor  banjo so we had live accompaniment for all our tasks.   Here is today's  programme.

Old McDonald   pizz on G
Foxtrot
Drunken Sailor   (Sneak preview of next lesson , first finger down  on D string  to make E )
Balloon Bows to  Ireland's Call .
Down Up Bows    piano Mr Shannon improvised around our  Rock You down up  riff on A . Remember just a little bit of bow 


Mr Shannon told  us that the banjo is a distant cousin of the violin .It comes from Africa and also has strings GDAE . There now !

Leaders included Ciara, Eugene, Rohan,  David    Lots of people had our new special tokens for good effort.

After school group   Frere Jacque, Old McDonald , Twinkle and Leaving Lismore

Ben, Brendan, Doreen, Emmanuel, Hayley, Ailish Emilia, 

James , Sophie, Claudia

Sports Day Two Anthems

We are nearly half way through our first term . Here is what we did today.

     

1 Shoulder hold.   Putting our violins in rest position we used our left hand on the underneath shoulder to put our violins in play position.

      

2. Balloon Bows to Irelands Call .  We use Down Bow retakes on D for this popular rugby song. we added some flag waving and some tremelo for a bit of added spice .

   

   3. Toreadors March  Another D and A tune . We learned how to read these notes on the stave . The notes are below. Are the notes on lines or spaces?   

     

 4.  Mr Corbett's class did rocket bows this  week  (tip first and pointing skwards)

      5Ms Loftus  did a Rock You riff on A 

Next week Double Bass Notes and Ostinato

Oops ! What is wrong here 

                                                                                                 Thats better!

Excellent bow hand 

Banjo position pizz

Thumb pizz

Prog 16th Oct

Name this tune .

Improvers Group 
1 Ailish, Emmanuel, Claudia, Ben, Brendan, Hayley Leaving Lismore, Joy to the World
2 James, Sophie, Dami  Old Mc Donald , Twinkle , Triplets 

Brass Band Day and Kilfenora Ceili Dancers

Ennis Brass Band Enrolment for Beginners Class

 Wed 10th October 2012 7.30pm   at Ennis  Community College

            There is no charge for tuition or lessons
  Here is what we did today


We worked on a new rhythm today

   **NEW **Rhythm 2 

                                          Kil-     fen-      or--    a      Cei      li        Dan  -cer

These little notes are called quavers  not to be confused with these snacks

  

Notes D and
  Exercise    How many syllables in your name . Can you clap the rhythm of your name 

2 We worked on our bow holds .  Remember  Engine driver looking ahead .

3 We had fun with our rhythm  1 Win-ter-tim-in Rus-sia   We split into boys versus girls teams  . Mr Corbett's class were great at this   (Gloria, Olivia Ethan , Cody, Manek)


4 We played Foxtrot pizzicato

5 KNOW THE CODE We learned how to recognise D and A on the stave

6 We listened to a march played by the Ennis Brass Band and conducted it  (Down Up)


Nicola was our leader from Ms Griffin/ Leahy's class. We welcomed Ms Regan today

We looked at the trumpet. How many valves (buttons) does a trumpet have?   Can you remember the other instruments we named all members of the brass family . Which one didn't have any valves (Hint -slide)

   

Foxtrot and Tremolo

 We learned how to play scary tremolos and our first two not tune Foxtrot . Check out the video of the Kilfenora Ceili Band as we will be talking about trad in the next few weeks .

NEW** Foxtrot  Pizzicato  

DDD _AAA_  DDD_ AAA_             

DDD_ DDD_   AAA_ AAD sh   

1 Bow Hold with pencil  see last week's post 

Bow Hold with Bow  Tremolo Bowing and Game


  ''Shivery bows'


Rhythm 1 V V  l  l   Wintertime in Russia
                               Ti Ti Ti Ti      Ta  Ta

Rhythm 2  l l L       Ta Ta Ta-aa

One of our excellent leaders Rhythm 2                

Mr Corbett's class get  ready to play Foxtrot 

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5th class Improvers Group  

Group 1 Bruno,Brandon, Claudia, Sophie, Dami Doreen, Emilia

             Practice  Twinkle , Old Mc Donald     

   Down Up Bows  Practice doing small down up bows on D  to track 5 (Chopstix  

Old McDonald      G G G D E E D_ B B A A G_ _   x2            Line 1 twice 
ddG G G dd G G G_ GG G GG G GGGG G G Line 2 
                                                                          Play Line 1 again

Fox Trot Strong bows near the bridge .    

Twinkle 

Group 2 Brendan, Ben, Emmanuel, Hayley, Ailish 

New things to practice this week   Leaving Lismore  Notes from Mr Connolly

Batman C natural   AA  BB  CC  BB   AA BB CC BB  AA _ AA_  

   De de de de de de de de Bat Man! Bat Man    Down Bow Retakes on Batman 

NEW TUNE  French Folk Song 

D'D'D  C# C# C# B C#D A __ __
3  3  3   2   2    2    1  2  3 0                G G G F# F# F# E E E  D_ _

A________________________          D______________________

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.