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'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