Tangos and Twinkles

Entrance Music A Tango from| Argentina

Scales   Today we joined up the two halves of the scale to make one big scale all the way from D to D'

Here are the names of the   notes  on D and A strings
                                         
Notes on D string  E        F#^ G
                             1         2   3

Notes on A string  B        C#^ D
                             1          2  3

New 
    Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Line 1
D D   A  A     B  B    A_  
0  0     0 0       1  1     0 
G G   F# F#   E  E    D _ 
3   3    2  2     1    1     0        

Line 2
A A   G G   F# F#  E_
0  0    3  3    2   2    1
A A   G G   F# F#  E_
0  0    3 3      2  2    1_

DD    A A   B B   A _     same as line 1
G G  F# F# E  E   D _ 

Knock on Wood Blues 

   z  x z  x   G G G_   
   z x z  x    z  x z x                For x  Use your  1st finger to knock on wood 

   G G G G G z D z 

2nd Chance 

Bowing Rhythms 

Beguine   Track 11    Good for practicing getting your elbow level right for the four strings.

           G G G G D D D D A A A A E E E E A A A A D D D D G G G G G D A D  Repeat G G G G D D D D A A A A E E E E A A A A D D D D G G G G G z G z 

Beginners Twinkle Improvers New Tune  Fainne Geal an Lae

After School  Class 

New Tune Marine's Hymn 

Marine's Hymn   Click on link here to watch a video of the new tune.

Scale Arpeggio  D Major

An arpeggio is a chord broken up  into single notes

New Tune  Munster Cloak  for advanced group Advanced Tune

Other tunes to practice Mo Gile Mear   Michael Row the Boat (in your book)

Striking a Chord with Turkish Rondo

Musical Alphabet   A B C D E F G 


This you tube clip  opens with a triad  Chords  Triads   Chords with 3 Notes


A B C D E F  GA B C D E       G chord
                      1     3     5 


A B C D E F# G A 
           1     3     5                         Dchord
  
Away in a Manger  

GD   GD    GD   DA 
DA   GD   GD   G D

Entrance Music Live 
 Mozart Rondo a la Turca 

 New Notes on lowest string 




4th Class Tasks 
Cross Lake Blues     String Crossing D to A     DD z z AA z z
Attacama Crossing   String Crossing  D to A  to V V l l  WTIR Rhythm 
Scale on D 
Scale on A 
Rock You Revisited   Low A  on  1 down on G string
Triads / Harmony       Away in a Manger 

Improvers 
Gmajor Scale  Two octaves 
Mo Gile Mear   New Tune 
Ode to Joy        
Michael Row The Boat Ashore   

2nd Chance Level 2   Frere Jacque , Twinkle  and French Folk Song 
                     Level 1 Track 3  D D z z A A z z
                                  Track 25 Scale on D 
                                  Track 24  Scale on A
                                   Track 4 String Crossing Open String 
                 

Up and down the ladder and Violin High Fives

Up and Down the Ladder & Violin High Fives

New track Car-ni-val- in R-io  Track 10

1 Rhythm 1 Wintertime in Russia
A new track today but a familiar rhythm.        V V 1 1     Ti Ti Ti Ti Ta   Ta 

 Can you find the rhythm in the list below.

Bow Hands 
Fingers well over 
Thumb Bent 
Knuckles forward 

2 Violin High Five   1       2 ^3

2 NEW TODAY  Scale  on D

Scale comes from the word ladder                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

3 Down Up LADDER

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 10000 0 0 open D 

Quiz

1 Why is  musical scale like a ladder ?
2 There is a famous opera house called La Scala Where is it?
3 What two left hand fingers are closest together ?

Now you has Jazz video Watch the video 
4How many instruments are there?  How many can you name 
5Which members of the brass family is in the band . 
6Which woodwind member is present? 

7How many beats in each bar 3 or 4  
8There are two singers Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong  What instrument does Armstrong  play?  
9 Do all the instruments play at the same time ?

After School Group   Mo Gile Mear/ Scale of G Two octaves / Twinkle Variations 1 / Jingle Bells /Old Mac
Second Chance Class  Blues, French Folk Song , Twinkle  / Bowing Rhythms / Up Bows Ode to Joy / Down Bows I 's Call 

Tiptoe Triplets and One Down Blues

We began work on our term 2 task list today. We continue to work on placing first finger and place 2nd   and 3rd in the coming weeks . Today we add a new triplet rhythm .   All classes had fun with the Blues Boogie Check out the video on the side on how to play the Blues

Task 1
Rhythm 3  Triplets { 1 1 1 1 1 1}    Track 5 Chopsticks
                                 1 2 3 4 5 6
                       6/8    Six short  beats  (tiptoe)
                    

This is a very important rhythm for Irish dancers  in JIGS

Shadow bowing and Bowing on D String and
first finger down on D (E) to  jig  Lilting Banshee  

Task 2

Cross  Lake Blues  (Mr Walsh)  Track 3  DD_   __ A A _ _

Task 3
First Finger Blues

lD E D E l G G G_ l x 4   Track 13
0  1 0  1   0  0  0

lA B A Bl  D E D El

lG G G Gl G z D zl


Bonus Quiz  1 The painting on the classroom board was called Soleil Levant,. Can you find out who the artist was and when it was painted.

                    2 6/8 is the time signature of what Irish dance

                    3 Read more about Blues music here    http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/music/popular_music/blues1.shtml


                           Write your own short summary on your school blog
Where  and when was Blues music first heard. Who sang and played it .

After School Orchestra Class  
Present Maxym, Ali, Cayla, Katie, Lucy and Julia

Focus this term on Irish repertoire

1 Scale G major   D___________    A                          E______________
                                               3     0     1^2        3      0       1^2

2 Mo Gile Mear   squishy 2 on A string
3 Dawning of the Day  Work on rhythm first
4 Continue to  work on repertoire tunes 

listen to ‘Dawning of the Day’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Mo Gile Mear Stringschool’ on Audioboo

Début 2012 5th Dec ENS Halla in pictures

 4th class Mr Walsh 

Play On Group

Mr Corry's Group

Double 

Leader

Bass section

Leader

Matinée Recital in Hall

FANDABIDOSI!!

Well done to all the students of 4th class students . Well done also to the orchestra class .  Bravo to the announcers, the cello and bass players and percussionist. How commanding were those leaders ! Couldn't have done it better myself Nathan, Sean and Emmanuel. Thank you to Mr Walsh,Ms McMahon and Mr Corry for your coopoeration.  Well done to Mrs Hallahan and Mr Murray from our Mams and dads class. The band played splendidly and we had great support from Ms Carrigg on keyboard.

I will be posting some photos as soon as I have them to hand. In the meantime here are the programme notes for today.

Ennis National School proudly presents

   Swinging Strings Ensemble 2012 with Ennis NS Band

 A lunchtime recital  at the Halla  on

Wednesday 5^th  December  11.45am

Programme

Mr Walsh and Class

O Come All you Faithful                trad.    Pizz on G

Toreador’s March from Carmen Bizet    pizz on D and A                  

Joy to the World                             Handel

Good King Wenceslas                   trad

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Ms Mc Mahon and  Class

Mary Had a Baby                         trad.

We’re Walking in the Air            Howard Blake

Silent Night                                   Gruber                                             

Foxtrot                                           Peter Martin

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Orchestra Class 

French Folk Song 

with guests from Second Chance Class Twinkle Twinkle 

Mr Corry and Class  

Away in a Manger  

Irelands’s Call                              Phil Coulter

Ode to Joy                                    Beethoven

Down Up Bells                             Pierpoint

Ennis National School Band directed by Fiona de Buitléir

Swinging Strings directed by Cathy Desmond

The Swinging Strings programme was first commissioned in 2010 by Principal Mr Ray McInerney. It is one of a handful of whole class music tuition projects running in Irish schools.  The project  is coordinated by Mrs Fiona de Buitléir of  Ennis N.S. To date nearly 240 children in Ennis NS have now participated and received  violin tuition  in Ennis NS. The objective is to fulfil the Arts curriculum in tandem with  offering every student the experience of playing in an ensemble and experience all musical genres The programme has expanded this year to include an after school  class offering specialist string tuition as an option for students wishing to continue learning an instrument .  This year the first adult’s class was launched making the  musical activity intergenerational at Ennis NS

Ennis National School Band  was initiated 30 years ago by Sean McDermot.  We are delighted to have several of Sean’s grandchildren playing with the band. We believe that the school is  unique in the scale of collaboration between the fledgling Swinging Strings ensemble and the established school band. The number of pupils participating in the annual Shannonside School Band Spectacular, (an initiative of the school to broaden the playing experience of band members) tripled on the previous years with all 4^th class students participating in the gala occasion at Shannon Airport.

The  Swinging Strings project director, Cathy Desmond  is a  graduate of NUI Maynooth, and holds a Licentiate of Trinity College London. A professional violin and viola player, she has played with a range of ensembles including, the National Youth Orchestra, Limerick Baroque Players and the Corn Barn Players. She was awarded a National Youth Orchestra Achievement Award for her work in establishing a school orchestra in  St Peter’s College Dunboyne.  Cathy was a finalist in the Ennis Chamber Business Excellence Awards 2012

Updates, reports and photographs of the programme are posted regularly on the dedicated web site,  www.swingingstrings.blogspot.com which can also be accessed via www.ennins.ie We encourage parents, guardians, grandparents, and friends  etc, etc to monitor the projects’s  progress on the site and comments are always welcome.

The class kit consists of half size violins and double bass.  We use Stentor 1 instruments as supplied locally by Custy’s. We are always delighted to accept donations of instruments or to discuss sponsorship opportunities.  

The second term of tuition will resume in January 2013 and further exciting performing opportunities are planned in the New Year.

Thinking of buying a violin ? . We recommend Stentor 1 or Primavera student violins supplied  locally  by Custy’s .           Cost €90  to Swinging Strings participants.

Queries: Cathy Desmond at cdstringschool@gmail.com

                 Fiona de Buitléir  info@ennisns.ie

                                 

www.swingingstrings.blogspot.com  

                                        

Invitation     
                           

  Ennis National School  and Stringschool          invite you to the

Christmas  Ensemble Concert

Wednesday 5^th  December  2012  11.45am

    In the  ENS School Hal

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Participants  

 Swinging Strings 4^th class groups

& Stringschool  Orchestra Class .

Ennis National School Band

Second Chance Class