Scary ghouls and tremelos

Room 12 at Ennis NS was a scary place to be today. When the door opened an assorted collection of witches and ghouls with the occasional super hero. trooped in for violin class.  There was no let up in the violin programme. All classes moved on to string crossing today moving from D to A  .  We worked on our first finger riff and we moved on to put 3rd finger down on D string to make new note G . Mr McInerney was treated to a perfromance of our favourite number this term . Ireland's Call. Here is today's programme .

Cross Lake Blues   ** NEW TUNE 

Gangster rap


Drunken Sailor  First Finger Riff

Down Up Bells (Quavers on new note G  3rd finger on D string)
Ireland's Call .

Scary tremelo     Mr Corry's class  won  most scary tremelo prize

Calling all guitar players . Practice your D and G chords for next class.

photos week 6

Cathy's Blog: Week 6 First Fnger Down / New Note E

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Today was we had an important new step . We put first finger down on D string to make new note E and practiced first finger riff.  We added an  drum ostinato to Ireland's Call. We welcomed Ms Barry who will be working with Mr Corry's class.  Several students had the chance to play double bass and finally we hear a track from Vladimir Jablokov www.vladimirmusic.com
Check out his video of Rondo a la Turca and James Bond theme on the video section.  Here is today's programme. Vladimir appears in Glór this evening.

Programme

Vivaldi in G
Foxtrot
Toreadors March 
Ireland's Call featuring tremelo flag waving and ostinato
First finger riff

Listening and responding Rondo a la Turca

Double bass players




Eoin ,Ali, Elise, Thady, Joe plus one other
Leaders Jade, Eoin, Daniel Albert  

Elephant Alligator Donkey Goat Week 5

'Giraldo' the Double Bass arrives

Today all the 4th class met the double bass the lowest and largest member of the string family. We learned all four strings . What were the four animals we used to help us remember. They are in the title of this post. You can still use Great Day At Ennis but start at the top string. Well done to Elise, Eoin , Shauna , Jack, Ali and Saoirse who played some of our pizzicato repertoire on bass.

We learned how to do a tremelo. We played a freeze game to check those bow hands

We did some more work on Ireland's Call adding some bow movements and tremelo. This was everybody's favourite number today.

Vivaldi in G
Wintertime in Russia
Toreador's March
Ireland's Call

We said goodbye to Tamara Steiger who was visiting from Switzerland. It was great to have Tamara's help over the last two weeks .

Mr Corry's class listened to a piece by Italian composer Vivaldi . Part of Summer where the violins play tremelo to maker the sound of thunder of summer storms

I will post some photos when some technical issues with blogger are resolved

Sporting Anthems

Finger Twister exercises
Toreadors' March from Carmen
Wintertime in Russia
Ireland's Call Retake Bows

There was a sporting theme to the classes today. First we warmed up with some finger marching exercises before moving on to learn the Toreadors' March from the opera Carmen . Can you find out more about this opera and who wrote it.

All classes added the bowing for Win- ter time in to Rus-sia

Here are the notes for Toreadors' March

D D D_ D D A_ x3
A A A A A A A D

Afternoon classes were visited by Tamara visiting from Switzerland who demonstrated the clarinet. What musical instrument family does the clarinet belong to ? It is also known as a R_ _ _ instrument. (Fill in the blanks)

Mr Blake's class moved onto to retake bows . We played along on D to Ireland's Call . Go Ireland

Here is a famous painting . Can you remember who the artist was . What is the painting of?

Leaders Fiachra Eoin Oisin, Elise Thank you to Keith and Kayla who helped set up and the packing up team lead by Chantelle