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Cathy Desmond

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Show Time/ Focus on clarinet









Pizz.
When you walk through a storm
                D                     D
Hold your  head    up     high
                A                     A
And don't be afraid of the dark----------
                       D               A         A
At the end of the storm
          G              E   
Is a  gold  en       sky
          D               

And the sweet silver song of the lark
             D                                D--D----

Walk on through the wind
          G                     A  

Walk on through the rain
          D                    E

Though your dreams be tossed and blown
                    D               D                      A
Walk on walk on with hope in your heart
 SCALE  D           E (1)     F# (2)          G(3)
And you'll never   walk    alone       --- -
                   A(o)   G (3)     F#(2)   E(1)
You'll never     walk     a-lone
          D             G            D           D


 Lyrics to Jambalaya (On The Bayou) :
Goodbye Joe, me gotta' go, me oh my oh
               DD                 DD            AA      AA
Me gotta' go pole the pirogue down the buyou
               AA              AA                       DD      DD
My yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun, on the buyou.

Jumbalaya, and a crawfish pie, and a file gumbo.
Cause' tonight I'm gonna' see my Machez a mio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar, and be gay- oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun, on the buyou.


It was all about harmony today . We are getting ready to join the Ennis NS Band to make a super group- The Nash Big Band.  We added some chords to two of the band tunes.  We worked on Jumbalay and the big number from the musical Carousel.  We had lots of Liverpool fans in Mr Blakes's class who recognised the tune very often sung at football matches. 


Chord  two or more notes played together. Most chords have three notes. 


 A  B  C#  D  E  F# G   B  C  D    Chord of D is D F#A 
             1    3    5           Chord  of A is A C# E


Ace clarinettist Ms de Buitléir dropped into Ms McMahon's class to play a few tunes with me . Clarinets are great jazz instruments and were developed first in Germany . 


Oh When the Saints
The Entertainer  Scott Joplin 
Marche Militaire Scubert


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