Scary Tremolo and Bullfighters

Pass With Cape  Pablo Picasso

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Foxtrot 

Track 2

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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