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