Week 4 Elephant , Alligator, Donkey, Goat and more Bullfighters

Gort Road Quartet

I spotted this group outside Vaughan's Garden Centre . Can you name all 4 instruments?



Week 4  
1   New Tune Toreadors March  

Here are the notes for our tune today Toreadors March . It is from the opera Carmen. We learned the sign for repeat in music . 

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

Pencil Bow Hands 

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2 'Train' Bowhands

We did a lot of work on our 'train' bowhand  and tummy grip bowhands

       Driver , passengers, guard (hopping on and off) and engineer

We did a caterpillar exercise with our bows .
We played our V V l l  Wintertime in Rus-sia rhythm on D string (Track 31)





Leaders today Abby, Ben and Nathan   Bravo!

3 Double Bass Strings 

Finally we learned the open strings on the double bass . ( Can you remember what they were. Hint see the title of  this blog post) 

Bass players    Ruth, Annie . Dayna  Boys turn next week
Mr Corry  Bonus pts Brian

One from the archive, Geraldo our double bass  at Shannon 2010

Next week   Balloon Bows  and Brass Bands

Orchestra Class  Scales on G, D and A , beginners  new tune no 22 Lightly Row , Blues

4 rhythms Aon Do Muc is Bo , Wtin Russia, Kilfenora Ceili Dancer , Hopping and Skipping and ,   1 scale a day , one rhythm , Foxtrot, Twinkle 

Advanced group  Mo Gile Mear new tune , Birthday Song   Batman C natural riff , Ode to Joy 

Scary Tremolo and Bullfighters

Pass With Cape  Pablo Picasso

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Foxtrot 

Track 2

DDD _ AAA_  DDD_ AAA_             

DDD_ DDD_   AAA_ AAD sh  

1 Bow Hold with pencil
2 Scary Tremolo 
3 Foxtrot   2  note tune
4 Bullfighters March   Bizet Toreadors March 
5 Rhythm 1 Wintertime in Russia   V V  l  l
6 Dynmaics! piano  FORTE

Lots of fun in class today .  All classes began with practicing our 'snail'  hands and bunny rabbit bow hand with pencils . At last we put our bows on D string to make a shivery sound called a tremelo . 
Try practicing your bow hold with a pencil . Have you got rabbits teeth and a bent thumb.

Mr Walsh's class worked out their coordinates .

We worked on Foxtrot a tune on D and A middle strings . How did we stop the strings vibrating at the end ?

Finally  we listened to the Bullfighter's March from the opera* Carmen and we learned how to conduct two beats in a  bar (Down Up)   See over on the left for a video of this piece .


We had some excellent cello players today , Laoise, Annie and Michael

          Next week tummy grip bow hands and a new rhythm .


Opera is a story for the stage told completely in music and singing ( No talking bits)

Although Carmen is set in Spain, the composer Bizet is French Find out more about him  at www.classicsforkids.com

After school . Advanced group 4th finger down and D major in 3rd position 
   no 73 and 75 
Beginners group All numbers  to no 20 Essential Elements 
Scale on D to Rhythm 1 
Stringschool numbers 1-5 

Careful with bow hands  Thumb bent and fingers well over 

Pencil Bow Hold and playing along with Vivaldi

Which Season

Today we played pizzicato on D and G
  We learned how to make a pencil bow hold
  We played along with some Vivaldi . What was the name of the piece?  Hint see picture

 We practiced our first rhythm  Miss-is-si-pi Down Up

Guest Spot   We met the trumpet . What family is it a member of ?

                     What are the three buttons called ?
                     What does a trumpet player use to make the notes ?
                                                       

Pizzicato on all strings
       track 18  G Old McDonald
                30  Miss is si pi    Down Up   Rhythm 1   ^ ^  1 1
                26  Twinkle

Leaders Wojciech and Rowan  Excellent !


Play On at NS Ennis  After School Class

Intermediate Group Cayla, Lucy, Luke
Essential Elements  Numbers 2-15  No 19 Rolling Along
 No 73 Rhythm Only  on D string

Advanced Group Julia, Ali, Katie 
New Tune no 73 Buckeye Salute
revise tunes 19, 41-43    70
Goal- 10 tunes by  memory

Next week   Slurs and new finger pattern

Preview Next week focus on Brass 

Preview Next week focus on Brass 

Foxtrot 

Track 2

DDD _ AAA_  DDD_ AAA_             

DDD_ DDD_   AAA_ AAD sh 

Listening Piece 1 Which Season  

Swinging Strings 2012: And We're Off

Rest Position

Left Hand Pizz

Violin Strings 

Great Day At EnnisNS

We had a very exciting day at Ennis NS as all the 4th classes began the Swinging strings 2012 programme .    Well done to the classes of Mr Walsh, Mr Corry and Ms McMahon.  Super attention and concentration in the first class today!

*We met all the members of the bowed string family.  can you remember all four ?

*We learned about low pitched and high pitched instruments . What  is the lowest pitched member of the string family. ?

*We learned to hold our violins in two positions ,  (a) rest and (b) play position.

*We talked about a stringed instrument that was not a member of the bowed string family. What was it ? _ _ _ _  

We played pizzicato ( plucking the string on  lowest string G to Old McDonald tack 18)

*We learned the names of all four violin strings (see above ) Thanks to Mr Blake for coming up with a great way of remembering the 4 letters)

I was very impressed with all my new students . Special mention today for Thomas (Mr Walsh) , Eileen (Mr. Corry) and  (Laoise, Ms McMahon)

Welcoming Mr Walsh 

Revision Class Video Class

We were delighted to welcome professional cameraman Mr Pascal Brooks of Brooksvideo.com to our class today to record our class as part of the preparations for the FBD Clare Business Excellence Awards. Stringschool is a finalist in the Innovative Use of ICT category .

Foxtrot 

Track 2

DDD _ AAA_  DDD_ AAA_             

DDD_ DDD_   AAA_ AAD sh 




Toreadors March Track track 14
 DDD  DD A_  DDD_ DDA_
                                         D D D D D A   AAAA AAAD 

Blues track 13

Notes on D  
 Notes on G
Notes on A


D  E  D  E    G  G  G_    x4
0   1  0   1     0   0   0  


A B A B     D  E  D  E                           
0  1  0  1     0  1    0   1 


G G G G     G  z  D  z  ES