GIVING YOUR GIFT - MUSIC !

Parents Notes
by Patrenella Lawson

Parents please remember Tuesday December 01^st.

 Intermediate and Advanced CLASS TIME SWITCH:

ADVANCED Students arrive 4:30 p.m. to set up and tune your instruments.

Class: 4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.

INTERMEDIATE Students arrive 5:30 p.m. to set up and tune your instruments.

 Class: 5:45 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

 Session fees are due Tuesday December 01^st,  2015 for Intermediate and Advanced Students

Session fees for Beginner Students are due Tuesday January 5th, 2016

CONCERT DRESS ATTIRE:  Advanced Students for December 5th ONLY

All Advance students should dress in their finest concert outfits. Clothing should be neat and clean. If boys have dress shirts and ties, that would be great!  Girls' a nice dress, shirt, blouse, dress pants would also be wonderful. Preferably no jeans, sweat pants or sneakers!!!!  

December 11th: ALL STUDENTS should wear their finest concert attire. 

December 12th: Students can wear casual attire. Jeans, sneakers, etc.

Rose Theatre Intermission Performance:  ADVANCED STUDENTS ONLY!!

Concert Agenda:

*Arrival Time @ 7:15 p.m.  

*Performance Time at 7:30 p.m.-7:45 p.m.

*Listen to the concert. Leave theatre seats to pick up instruments- before the last song before intermission begins

*During the intermission, students will play their FOUR Christmas Pieces: 

 Winter Fantasy, A Christmas Lullaby,  

Pie Jesu, and Variant on an Old English Carol

LAST class before Christmas is Dec 15th


 FIRST class of 2016 is January 5.

HOMEWORK 

BEGINNERS

During tuning time before class, show practice chart to your teacher- if you have 4 days practice marked you may choose a sticker for your chart! 

EACH DAY REVIEW THE FOLLOWING:

1. EVERY DAY PRACTICE WARM UP:

• Sitting position 
• PERFECT Bow Hold: all fingers rounded
• Bow exercises: Windshield wiper, Monkey crawl up/ down, Twinkle with coin.
• Correct Instrument hold
• Placing bow on string: LIFT arm above your string, drop weight of arm onto string, feel it "settle into" the string. 
• Careful placement of LEFT HAND , -violin/viola at end of fingerboard.  CELLO tape or index finger measurement/ thumb behind 2nd finger, on back of neck

 2. String Cycle: Drop bow onto your lowest (thickest) string. Pull four short strokes, then move to next string and repeat bow strokes. 

NEW RHYTHM: 

MIssissippi Hot Dog  on each STRING PLAY: short short short short long long

3.  0-1 String Cycle: On each string, as above play 0-1 then go to next string. Listen for correct "doh-re: sound. Check correct round finger position

4. FOR CONCERT: TWINKLE - line 1, 2 and 3. ALWAYS PLAY with correct position ! 

5. FOR CONCERT: Tuesday Class: SCALE OF D:

                                             d e f# g             a b c# d

                            violin/viola: D STRING  0   1   2    3   A STRING 0   1   2    3

                                      cello:  D STRING 0   1    3    4   A STRING 0   1   3    4

6. Wednesday Class: Long, Long Ago Line 1.

                                                                            

                                                                        LONG, LONG AGO

                                           Line 1 //:D____ D    E/   F#____ F#  G / A_____  B A / F#____

                                 violin / viola    (D0___ D0 D1/ D2____D2 D3/ A0_____A1 A0/ D2____) 

                                           cello     (D0___ Do D1/ D3____ D3 D4/A0_____A1A0  D3____)   

INTERMEDIATE

BRING DETAILED PRACTICE CHARTS to class PRACTICE 5 DAYS EACH WEEK

NEW FOR CONCERT DEC. 11

BEETHOVEN'S 9TH ALL

D Scale 

 Joy to the World

Silent Night

NEW: AT HOME PRACTICE: Good King Wenceslas 

and We wish you a Merry Christmas

 AFS HOMEWORK EXERCISES: 103 TO 113 

                      Review SCALE of  C  C.D E F G........     A B C

                           

REMEMBER:

 CLASS TIME EXTRA HELP Those who are not yet able to easily read the assigned AFS material, will be receiving special help sessions for part of the class, while others move forward with new material.

ADVANCED

Bring detailed Practice charts to class

 ROSE THEATRE  pieces: Winter Fantasy, A Christmas Lullaby,  

Pie Jesu, and Variant on an Old English Carol

          Keep PERFECTING the NOTES. 

THIS WEEK  WORK TO LEARN ALL BOWINGS
 for these 4 ROSE THEATRE PIECES,

                                                                                   

                        LEARN all CAROLS in RED BINDER for Dec. 5, 11 and 12th

                          SEE PARENTS' NOTES ABOVE for CLEAR DEC 5 TIMING

1. BRING YOUR SCALE SHEET, with  correct fingerings marked in by your teacher, to class. Be ready to play all of these scales well in class, with shifting as required.

Giving your music to others is YOUR BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT!