Fortissimo

Performing 
 
Foxtrot   Track 2 Arco (with bows)
First Finger Blues  Track 15
Bow River Fiddling Track 4
Cross Lake Blues   Track 5

The Water is Wide (Unison and Echo) Ms McMahon's class treated me to a wonderful rendition of this  beautiful Irish folksong

Leaders Tara, Damien 

Bass Players Luke , Jack and Clare

Listening 
All about dynamics .

piano , forte , pianissimo, fortissimo, crescendo,  


The Rite Of Spring  by  Igor Stravinsky  

Why do you think this piece caused a fuss when it was performed in Paris first in 1913. ?

Key Words Instruments, Dynamics, Rhythm , Beat 

After School Orchestra Class 

Welcome back Ali and Abigail and hello to Katie who is practicing very hard

New Tunes French Folk Song 106 and Old McDonald. Use your Cds and DVD play along tracks to practice all the tunes we played this term 

After School Orchestra Class

Ballet Dancers

La le Bríde The first day of Spring

http://www.libraryireland.com/LegendaryFictionsIrishCelts/V-13-1.php  
check out this link for a story about Brigid and music from National Library of Ireland


No rainy day blues in Ennis today and there was sunshine for the first day of Spring .  Click on the link above to read this great story about one of our best known saints  
Ms McMahon's class sang a great song about St Brigid. We also heard the first section of Spring a piece for strings by Vivaldi, an Italian composer who we met at the start of the programme.  Here are some of the terms we le
arned .

 piano    soft
forte      loud
Tremelo move your bow very fast forward and back
trill        swapping between two notes very quickly to make a birdlike sound

Performing
Blues (Notes on last week's post)
Up and down the D ladder 
New Rhythm Bow River 

Daniel Demonstrates

After School Orchestra 
Homework 
Notes on the G String
Violin 4th finger
Ode to Joy
Twinkle (Bow River Variation)
New Baa Baa Black Sheep
Sight Reading Try This Old Man

Rainy Day Blues

Mentors Mr Blake's class

Not a very nice day in Ennis today but a great day to play violin.

  *Today all three classses climbed up and down the ladder. (see last week's post)

Working on Bow Hold

   *We learned how to read low G  ( how many ledger lines do we need?)
  * We made a start on the One Finger Blues
  * Bow Hand Sleeping Beauty , Jack and Jill ,  Humpty Dumpty, Little Jack Horner . can you find all these nursery rhyme characters in your bow hand?

'Check Out the video tutorial   on the right .   
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  

Up and down the ladder

Ms Sexton centre

We had a busy day on the programme today.  I was joined by trainee teacher and violinist , Aileen Sexton.  Mr Blake's class played an exciting new rhythm, Bow Ri=ver   and Mr Corry and Ms McMahon;s class went up and down the D string ladder . We played two duets from the southern states of the USA Lil Liza Jane and Oh Suzannah. We learned the choruses .  If you have forgotton here they are . We even had a poem about Louisianna, from Maxim.



 Oh Eliza, lil Liza Jane 
 Oh Eliza, lil Liza Jane
 I know a girl that you don't know, lil Liza Jane 
 She lives bdown in Baltimore, lil Liza Jane 
                                 
Oh Suzannah, don't you cry for me 
 I come from Louisiana with a banjo on my knee.


3 UPLADDER
ASCENDING  0 0 0 0  0    1 down 1 1 1 1  1 1   2 down 2 2 2  2  2  3 down 3 3 3 3 3  3   3 again


3 DOWN LADDER
DESCENDING 3 down  3333 3 3   lift up 3    2222 2 2   lift up 2  1111 1 1  lift up 1 0000 0 0 open D 


3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3  2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 

Mr Corry's class

3  2  1  0  11     We will Rock You

   

Maxim  has the floor

New Term New Bow Hold and 3 Down Ladder

All Classes moved from and outside to an inside bow grip today. A very Important  new step. Check out my tutorial video on the bow hold on the right.

3 things to remember

1 Thumb Bent
2 Fingers wrapped around
3 Little finger round and sitting on top

NEW TUNE Carnival in Rio  ( to  W Tin R rhythm )

Q. Where is Rio de Janeiro !

Mr Corry's and Ms McMahon's played all notes on the D string

Try this to W T in R rhythm
3 DOWN LADDER
3 down  3333 3 3   lift up 3    2222 2 2   lift up 2  1111 1 1  lift up 1 0000 0 0 open D 


3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3  2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 



3  2  1  0  11     We will Rock You 


Welcome Alex to the group who did very well on his first day

Congratulations to Isabel and Katie on their new violins .

Announcing rainy day practice mentors
Mr Blake Tara and Isabel
Mr Corry  Chantelle and Meghan
Ms McMahon Saoirse and *tbc

Practice guidelines Try out your new grip and 3 DOWN LADDER