Visit from NCH

Mrs Carrick, Dorothy  and Mr McInerney talk to the band

Big crowd for last lunchtime concert

Today we welcomed a return visit from Dorothy Conaghan, a violin teacher all the way from the National Concert Hall Dublin  who visited us last November . She worked on the  inside bow grip .  Mr Corry's class worked on a Swedish Folk song . Here is the riff

E E E E E E E E (x8) D D D D D D D D (8) E E E E E E E E (8)  D D D D (x4)  E_ E_ ( long x2)
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1           0  0 0  0 0  0  0  0

Ms Spring's Class  worked on a Twinkle Variation to  the rhythm Down  Em Ma  Up  Em ma  

Bend your knee means changing down a string and all 3 fingers go down   (Aon Do Tri  Trasna )

Mr Blake's class worked on another variation starting on A and going on to the highest string E  This time the rhythm was  Eist liom is Eist Liom.

In the afternoon we all joined the audience for the last lunchtime concert and to cheer on  Tara and Ariadne, Shauna, Shauna, Rana  Sarah and Aoife  who volunteered to play violin .

In the afternoon we worked on the Swedish Folk Song with the band .

Elephant Alligator Donkey Goat

Leah on Bass at Shannon Airport Bands Spectacular

The  moving team




Mentoring Team Mr Corry's class with their Love Live Music Pencils

 

This might seem a strange title  for our post this week but this helps us to remember the notes of the open strings on double bass

Here is the bass notes for the tango La Cumparsita

D z z z D z z z                 Gm z z z G z z z  D z z z D z z z  Gm  z z z G z z z  

Cm/G z z z  Cm/G z z z   Gm z z z G z z z  D z z z D z z z  G z z z G z z z

We learned how a chord is made up

C  E  G    The chord of C has 3 notes with C on the bottom

The play list today was

Chopsticks           Triplets
Athacama Crossing
Macchu Piccu Mountain
Wintertime in Russia


We worked on our Echo Twinkle with boys against girls . Some people were really good at this especially Shauna in Mr Blake's class who played  the whole tune solo for the class. Bravo Shauna !

Frank tries out the Stringschool Double Bass

Leaders today were Ellen, Cian. Stephen and Elias Leah and Lee helped demonstrate the open double bass strings and Conor in Mr Blake's class and Shauna in Mr Corry assisted at the piano Bravo tutti ! Thanks too to Naomi for help in setting up