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 

Samba Day

A New Fiddle

 















Beguine  Samba rhythm
Blues     
Scale
Twinkle  coming on 
Free Style  We got some great special effects for thunder, rain, rolling boats

Improvers  Star of County Down

 

Happy Blues at Holy Family

Back after a short break for midterm . Focus today on Blues .  Don't forget to check out the video lesson.

Programme

Notes on D String 

1  First Finger Blues   Dance Version, Finger Drum Version and pizz version

D E D E  G G G_   x 4
0  1 0  1   0  0  0

A B A B  D E D E

G G G G G z D z



2 Scale on D

3  Scale on A 

Level Game 

Welcome to new student Alex  from Brazil 

Next week  Beguine A samba on all 4 strings and one of Brazils most popular tunes Tico Tico 

Improvers' Group 
Claudia, Brendan, Hayley, Emmanuel, Emilia  
Minstrel Boy and Treaty Stone March 

  

Tango and Twinkles

1 Entrance music today was a tango  La Cumparsita  all the way from Argentina in South America .  We added some percusssion with some handclapping

2/3  All classes worked on the scales on D (track 25)  and A (tr 24)

4 Finally we worked on our first  three finger  Twinkle Twinkle . It went very well here are the fingers we need  Notes in green are on the A string

****NEW Today ***

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Line 1
D D   A  A     B  B    A_  
0  0     0 0       1  1     0 
G G   F# F#   E  E    D _ 
3   3    2  2     1    1     0        

Line 2
A A   G G   F# F#  E_
0  0    3  3    2   2    1
A A   G G   F# F#  E_
0  0    3 3      2  2    1_

DD    A A   B B   A _     same as line 1
G G  F# F# E  E   D _ 

5 Finally Mr Corbett's and Ms Loftus's class listened to a bit of Spring by Vivaldi .   We played along with pizz on  the note E (first finger on D) and added some tremelo . Bravo tuttti!   

Improvers Group 

Listen to the Minstrel Boy below I have posted two versions, one at a slow tempo.

Gp 1Brendan, Hayley, Emmanuel,  Gp 2  Sophie, James 

Tunes today  Gp 1 March 2 , Minstrel Boy 

Gp 2 Treaty Stone March.

Double Stopping Finding a rhythmic ostinato that fits 

listen to ‘The Minstrel Boy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘The Minstrel Boy slow’ on Audioboo

Rock You Revisited and shaken by a low A

Task List 29 th January 

1    2^3  down 

Violin High Fives 

Cross lake Blues             String Crossing   D D z z A A zz   Track 3

Attacama Crossing          v v 1 1 z z v v I  I   D and A strings   Track 4 

Scale on D                           Track 25         

Scale on A                            Track 24 

Rock You                  First finger on G string to make low not A   Track 19

Finger gym  First Finger Knock on Wood

Level Game 

Welcome Aaron and Michael to Mr Corbett's class

     3 2 1 0   11      We Will , We Will Rock You 

G_______________

Pack Up Team today

My set up assistant Ms Pilkington

Improvers' 

Claudia, Brendan, Emmanuel,  Treaty March March 2 

Hayley Emilia, Sophie     Treaty March  Rhythm Work 

Up and Down the Ladder & Violin High Fives

New track Car-ni-val- in R-io  Track 10

1 Rhythm 1 Wintertime in Russia
A new track today but a familiar rhythm.        V V 1 1     Ti Ti Ti Ti Ta   Ta

2 Violin High Five   1       2 ^3

2 NEW TODAY  Scale  on D
Scale comes from the word ladder                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

3 Down Up LADDER
ASCENDING  0 0 0 0  0    1 down 1 1 1 1  1 1   2 down 2 2 2  2  2  3 down 3 3 3 3 3  3   3 again 

3 DOWN LADDER
DESCENDING 3 down  3333 3 3   lift up 3    2222 2 2   lift up 2  1111 1 1  lift up 10000 0 0 open D 

Quiz
1 Why is  musical scale like a ladder ?
2 There is a famous opera house called La Scala Where is it?
3 What two left hand fingers are closest together ? Don't forget tose bow hands 

Fingers well over 
Thumb Bent 
Knuckles forward 

Thanks to my helpers from Mr Corbett's class who helped to pack up today 

Improvers Group

New March Watch this post I will be adding  a recording of this new tune soon.

Rhythm Right
Remember  Single Upbeat =Upbow

Doreen Dami, James, Hayley, Sophie, Emilia, Emanuel, Ben, Brendan

listen to ‘March 2 slow tempo’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘March HFSS 22 jan’ on Audioboo

Triplets, Treaty Stones and January Blues

New programme today

We began work on our term 2 task list today. We continue to work on placing first finger and place 2nd   and 3rd in the coming weeks . Today we add a new triplet rhythm .  Check out the video on the side on how to play the Blues

Task 1
Rhythm 3  Triplets { 1 1 1 1 1 1}    Track 5 Chopsticks
                                 1 2 3 4 5 6
                       6/8    Six short  beats  (tiptoe)
                   

This is a very important rhythm for Irish dancers  in JIGS

Shadow bowing and Bowing on D String and
first finger down on D (E) to  jig  Lilting Banshee  

Task 2

Cross  Lake Blues  Ms Loftus class  Track 3  DD_   __ A A _ _

Task 3
First Finger Blues

D E D E  G G G_   x 4
0  1 0  1   0  0  0

A B A B  D E D E

G G G G G z D z

Improvers Group
Congratulations to the members of the  group who were admitted to the HFSS Band .
1 Work today The Treaty Stone March

2 G Major  ( 1^2      3    0   1^2      3 )   Finger pattern on D and A string  C natural
   D Major Scale
Up beat  Use an up bow
4th finger placement some  Use 4th instead of open string in 3rd line last bar   to avoid changing string

Listen to the tune in the recordings prepared for you below

Rhythm only  Try  playing the rhythym on open string D with the recording
                     When you are happy with the rhythm,  work on the fingers


Continue to play term 1 tunes to work on bowing .

Bowing Tips
1 Use middle of bow and
2 bowing near bridge  not near fingerboard

Present Brendan, Emmanuel, Hayely, Emilia, Sophie, Dami,  Ben,

listen to ‘Treaty Stone March slow’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Treaty Stone March Fast’ on Audioboo