Getting ready for Shannon

'Marines Hymn
Balloon Bows

D  D D  D  Line 1

D  D  D D  Line 2

G  D  G   D  Line 3

D D   D  D


Notes on Chord of D   D   F #  A         B C A B C D    E   F   G A


                               G  G    B  D
 Munster Cloak

Pizz
 D  G   D   G   D   G    D   G 
 D  G  D    G  D   G    G   D        Watch the ending

What other notes could your use   to fit the chords of G and D

Mo Gile Mear 

Double stopping on G and D together



4th class tunes Foxtrot, Blues,  Twinkle,  Scale on D,  Scale on A 

Improvers 

New Tune Calypso   

Tutti Ode to Joy  French Folk Song  Mo Gile Mear 

Julia Ali Munster Cloak 

Violin   Sound Effects

1Down Retakes       2Up Bow Retakes

3Tremelo   on strings 1, 2 3,4

4Strum   Forward

5Knocking on wood  

6Pizz       descending    rain   EADG

7Pizz ascending  GDAE

8Rock and Roll  bow over all 4 strings

9Bow behind bridge   for squealing

10 wolf theme on Double bass  bowing fast A E A E A E A E tremolo on A  off

11 First Finger glissando

12 Semitone Jaws Theme   01

The three little pigs

1Once there were three little pigs .  (Garry ,   solo pause   watch for signal  two beats  (pizz on G  2Danny solo    Pause)   cue two counts D  pause and

3Arnie solo  pause   ) A
4 Time came for them to leave home and make their own home.    High Ho with strum forward on back beat    

5 The first little pig Gary ( solo 12 G ) began  building his house of straw  pizz ascending  wait for   4 counts              12 counts  GGGG DDDD AAAA EEEE  (Add row by row    Watch for cut off )

6When he finished he sat down and admired his new house .  Rock and Roll Bow  **
7   Then there were three knocks on the door    Wait  three counts    echo  (Knock Knock Knock )

8  Wolf Semitone theme Who’s there . 

Little pig  This is Mr Wolf Let me come in ………Not by the ....

9 So the wolf huffed  follow leader  (tremolo on G  he puffed (tremolo on D and he blew the house
10 down    (up bow  arpeggio   E A D G   lift bow off together    plus bass pizz G D)

11 The second little pig gathered some wood , got out his hammer and nails and began building his house of timber    (Kilfenora Ceili Dancer     some knocking   Knocking     assigned a string each row GGGGGGGG DDDDDDDD AAAAAAAA EEEEEEEE

12 Very soon the house was ready and the little pig sat down admire his work   Rock and Roll  but   ( 13 Knock knock knock)  Guess who !
14 semitone theme  It was the wicked wolf    Little pig let me come in 
15   ( So he huffed    G  tremolo   and puffed  D tremolo   and blew the house of stix in
16 Up bow EADG off and bass pizz).

The last pig took his time . He decided to bulid his house of bricks  Slwly he bulid his house of bricks

 17  Pause down bow retakes     slow  G     G     G   G etc

The third little pig began building his house of bricks. 

18 It started to rain    pizz down  EADG  EADGEADG  
19  but on he went building his house of bricks 

 (Down Bow Retakes   GDAE building up rows)   Tremelo on bass

20  And at last he sat down to look at his lovely house  Rock and Roll

21 but whats this ?   here comes the big bad wolf . (semitone theme)
22 Into the house with him and    cue  bang ( slap ) he shut the door. 
23 Very soon there can   ( Knock Knock Knock ) on tr=the door . Little pig little pig let ,me come in ......

  24    So he huffed tremolo  G

He puffed  tremolo  D  

And he huffed    ####### G again

He puffed      #######   D gradually slow down  but he couldn’t blow the house down

ext he he looked for another way in    34  First finger gliss up he climbed up the chimney 

But quick as a flash  trghe little put a match to the fire   34   Up bow retake

The flames  grew higher  arpeggios    The wolfs cries grew louder    Down bow s on E 

Bow behind bridge tremelo

That was the end of the big bad wolf and the little pigs hads a party before going back to work to rebuild their houses

  Theme song

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20th Feb Blues All 4 Strings

Focus on Blues today 

Lots of fun with the Level Game 

Lyrics Blues  

Kil rush Road is Straight and Long   D E D E  G G G _s

ChordG ______________________________________

 x2

Hear the cars roar                 A B A B   D E D E 

D_______________________________

Make’s you’re ears sore      D E D E

C7________________________________

Beep  Beep  Beep Beep  Beep z Honk z     G G G G G z D z

Can you do better . Compose your own verse . Best one added to our lyrics

G                                           Dmi

Over to you to write another verse 

After School Group 

Journals 

Goals for week   Concentrate on  learning one new tune  at a time 

                         Repertoire Tunes (tunes you know well)

                         Scale Arpeggio 

Daily Record Write down what you practice - 

Parent Signature 

Baby Slopes
Hot Cross Buns    
Merrily We  Roll Along
Clair de la Lune 
Foxtrot 
Blues 
                   

Blue Run Tunes
Lightly Row
Twinkle  Variations
French Folk Song
Jingle Bells
Ode to Joy
Old McDonald
 Lil Liza Jane

Red Tunes 
Michael Row the Boat
Marines Hymn
Mo Gile Mear
Dawning of the Day
Fanny Power
Polkas
Premiere Waltz

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Black Run Tunes 
Munster Cloak 
Calypso 
William Tell Overture,
 Simple Gifts 

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