Dress Rehearsal for Cafe Concert

3rd class are invited to the 

  CAFÉ SESSIONS   at Holy Family Senior            School 

4th class students give a debut performance to mark the end of their first  term  

Tuesday  December 4th 2012 

Where -Holy Family School Café

Time   Three sets 11am -1pm 


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Great rehearsal  today everyone.   It was busy but we got through our programme. See you next  week in the Holy Family Café for our concert  to finish the activity for this term. Each class will perform in turn for an invited audience of 3rd class students . All groups are doing the same programme. See previous post for more details.
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Maths Moment 
Joshua (Ms Leahy's class  pointed out the mathematical relationship in the rhythm pattern of Vivaldi in G .
Here is the pattern
   G G zz  G G G z G G G G G G zz
    2             3          6

Can you spot it?

------- divided by ________  =________
Cool! Joshua
Concert Programme 
Pizzicato
     Vivaldi in G            open string Leader pizz on G 
     Toreador's March    open string pizz on D and A 
      Drunken Sailor       First finger down on D string new note E 
      Foxtrot                   Open string pizz on D and A 

Arco
   Rock You                Down Up Bows on A string 
   Cross lake Blues     Crossing from D to A 
   Wintertime in Russia   Boys Girls Duet 
   Ireland's Call          Balloon Bows on D  Tremolo  on final call Flag waving.

Leaders  & Deputies : Ayomide, Cormac, Joshua , Eugene , Anya , Sineid.

Announcers to be confirmed by Ms Loftus, Leahy and Mr Corbett 
 Cello Tamek,  Grace , Whitney 
 Bass   Thomas , Vanessa, Fabian
 Ostinato /Drums    Sarah , Adewale, Mariuz

Present Dami, Doreen, Ben, Brendan, Bruno, Hayley, Sophie, 
(Absent, James, Sophie, Emilia, Emmanuel, Claudia )

Repertoire tunes Twinkle OldMc , Frere Jacques
New tunes Silent Night Away in Manger   Christmas Carol Sheet 
          

Windy Day Rehearsal 2

Debut  Concert Programme    Holy Family Strings 

Pizzicato Section 
Vivaldi in G
Toreador's March
What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Foxtrot

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Arco ( With Bow)

Rock You
Cross Lake Blues   to Ode to Joy 
Wintertime in Russia
   guest slot  Reel  
Finale    Ireland's Call      



Today we welcomed Mr Corry and Ms Kyne .We made good progress on the concert  program and all groups practiced everything except  the last number . Cello and bass  featured today   Bass players were Cormac,  Eugene, a young lady name tbc 
Cello players included  Tamek,  Jane 

Leaders included Angel, Adewale, Anja  all beginning with A 

Next week we will add the introductions .

Improvers 
Dami , Doreen, Sophie, Hayley, Bruno, Emilia, James, Claudia, Ben, Brendan,  
Absent Emmanuel , 

Mentor   Hayley 
Programme, Twinkle , Old McDonald, Frere Jacques   

Elephant Alligator Donkey Goat: Good Vibrations

Debut Bass Player 

Lesson  8     Rehearsal 1  for Concert 4th Dec 
Here is today's programmes .

 Spotlight on double bass today
The strings are in the title of the post.

Pizz

1    Vivaldi in G         Open G    track 1

2,3 Foxtrot / Toreadors  Open D and A   Track 2

  Prelim exercise    E E E _ We three Kings Riff

4    First finger riff Drunken Sailor  1 down on D string to make new note E     
 Ms Leahy's class were excellent at this one 

  

Arco

   Tummy grip bow hands , Train Bow Hands

Rock You   Track 19    (a) open A   (b)  First finger on G to make  low A

Wintertime in Russia  track 3 _

Cross Lake Blues  Track 3

Activity  Find out more about Vivaldi . Try this link Vivaldi

Bass players Thomas, Eugene, Chris

Leaders   Jesus ,  Ayomide,  Nicola,  Mr Corbett  l
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Level 2 Claudia, Ben, Brendan, Hayley, Ailsh , Dani, Emmanue.

Absent Sopie, Emilia, James Bruno, Doreen,
Programme  Twinkle, Old MacDonald, Frere Jacques, Leaving Lismore   Try London Bridge at home 

Mentor this week Hayley.

    

Cross Lake Blues and Drunken Sailor

  Entrance Music Jigs Fiddle 

Kilfenora Ceili Band 

1  Vivaldi in G  Track 1    Begin  by clapping rhythm  Hand clap rests  Work out the rests  What is the pattern   pizz on G    Well done everyone spotted the pattern 2 ,3 and 6 on open G   all classes 

2 Foxtrot                  Track 2    Dipping down  and Side step  Mr C and Ms Loftus 

3 Toreadors             Track 12  x2    Ms Griffin 

4 Drunken Sailor First finger down       Square fingers

        What Shall We Do wih a drunken Sailor  E E E E  D D D D  E E E E D D E E    all classes 

5 We will Rock You        Track 19        On open A string 

6 WT in Rus-sia   Track  31    on D   (Mr C ) 

7 Ireland’s Call    Retakes    Retakes on D   (Ms Griffin)  

8 **NEW Cross Lake Blues, string crossing   D  D z z    A A z z  Elbow down Elbow Up 

Mr Corbett's class played along with some reels played by Gerry O Connor 

Some super effort all round . 

Thanks Mr Corbett and class for packing up the class kit so efficiently 

Follow on activity Can you find out about our first composer today . Vivaldi Where was he from and when did he lived . He wrote mostly for which family of instruments?

Today was the last day for new material.  Next week we have the first of three rehearsals for our first term concert 

Ennis Trad Festival takes place  this weekend . People from all over the world will be in Ennis to hear the music

Improvers Group. Claudia, Bruno, Brendan, Emmanuel, Sophie, James , Ben
Absent Dami, Doreen, Ailish, Hayley, Emilia

3 tunes on sheet, Twinkle, Old MC, Frere Jacque , plus  Leaving Lismore 

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)