PRIVATE LESSON PLANNING THIS WEEK

SEPT 29, 2016

 PARENT NOTES

ADVANCED AND INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS

1. PRIVATE LESSON PLANNING

All students should be signed up for a private lesson by this Tuesday

Yogita and Andrea are working together to help you find a time which suits your needs. NO START DATE will be announced until the schedule is complete- we hope we can set this by Wednesday after class sign up. Please check BLOG for further info.

We know that most Parents are aware of the important value added to your child's learning through these additional lessons- currently at no extra charge. It is a challenging task to organize 

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We value your appreciation, expressed in your patience and understanding, and sometimes in your supportive words, as we endeavour to match teacher times with student needs. 

2.THEORY

After Private lessons are c scheduled, the next task is setting up Theory lessons. Our goal is to provide theory (again currently at no additional charge, but of great benefit to learning) for each child, either on the day of their Orchestra class, or the day of their private lesson. 

We do not expect parents to attend MATT more than twice any given week.  Therefore we do not permit teachers to change class times around at will. 

The lesson times will remain constant and for Sun and Friday lessons will not be held on long weekends, when some families may wish to be away.

Friday or Sunday lessons will be scheduled to avoid these holiday times, so please watch your dates for these alterations due to school or STAT holidays.

BEGINNERS: HOMEWORK

1. REVIEW: sitting/standing position

                    careful removal of instrument from case , 

                    correct use of shoulder rest or rock stop

                    correct care of case and instrument

                    correct playing position

 NEW: 1. care of bow and bow hair

            2. tightening and loosening of bow hair

            3. CORRECT BOW HOLD:

• natural "pencil pick-up" position: all fingers slightly spread and rounded
•  "bunny" formation middle two fingers touching thumb at first joint, bent thumb
• two middle fingers sit firmly and flat on "eye" of the frog
• use hand-out to match your correct position to illustration
• REPEAT/REPEAT  -the more times you go through the steps, the more natural and comfortable it becomes.!!

INTERMEDIATES: HOMEWORK

 1. REVIEW : counting of eighth notes: 1&2&3&4& in Double Trouble

 2. Practice Scale of G in eighth notes

3. Review and learn ALL notes bars 1 to 8 (more if you can!)

4. Answer this question for Class: Why is the song called "Double Trouble"? (hint - it relates to the counting)

 5. BRING All for Strings book to class

ADVANCED: HOMEWORK

1. REVIEW: Pachelbel Canon first 4 bars VIOLAS- name notes , practice WITH bow(arco)

2. TRIO PLAYERS: new piece to be reviewed and practice, Christmas Trio to be found for Oct 11 class

3. NEW for ALL: TWO OCTAVE SCALES

  D major - work carefully on Cello: extension fingerings in first octave

                          

  Violin/Viola: shift section -second octave - slow and careful work: rehearse and repeat 

  Bass: all notes strong tone and full bow.-perfect shift in last four notes

4. Harvest Home: first section up to Q- Attention dynamics

5. Canadian Ballad: Smooth playing of intro- to be checked on sections for tuning, timing and smoothness. REPEAT REPEAT till beautiful!

form bar %: learn timing!!! Count carefully.

These pieces may ALL be used to play at the Rose THEATRE INTERMISSION performance, with other seasonal pieces and carols.

       HAVE A PRODUCTIVE PRACTICE WEEK DEAR MATT STUDENTS!!

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT- 

HAVE YOU COMPLETED YOUR TEN THOUSAND HOURS YET???

                  

              

MAKING MUSIC TOGETHER AGAIN

Posted September 22/16

PARENT INFORMATION

ALL STUDENTS please sign in with Yogita every class.

BEGINNERS

WELCOME TO MATT !! We are almost finished with the Application /start up process. Still a few instrument assignments and swaps will happen this week. 

Practice charts will be issued for your weekly practice record this Tuesday/Wednesday

Homework: All beginners will be practicing the correct way to remove instruments from the case, sit on the chair with correct posture,place the rock stop/shoulder rest in correct position and hold the instrument while sitting.

ADVANCED AND INTERMEDIATE PARENTS: homework is below

1. ALL students must return their music from last year THIS TUESDAY, so we can file it and hand out new music 

2. PRIVATE LESSONS SIGN UP is this Tuesday. We want to start early October-

3. PLAY FAIR: Final details. 

Please see last week's Blog for a Thank you note from MATT. You will receive a copy this Tuesday.

T-shirts :If you ordered a Play Fair t-shirt and have not yet paid for it,(most have, thank you) please do so this week, whether or not you were at the event. The Adv performers received theirs free, but parents/friends/ Board agreed to py for them. MATT cannot justify paying for these when they were ordered ahead with this understanding. Thank you.

4. ADVANCED: NEW DRESS SHIRTS?TOPS  :If you have an idea for a dressy look for the Advanced students who have been invited to play at the December Rose Orchestra concert again this year, please let us know- Something which reflects our new look, maybe sparkly, use your imagination.

INTERMEDIATE HOMEWORK

1. Bring a pencil to every class

2. Play the correct scale for each piece before working on  the music.

learn the notes(write names in with pencil if needed)

Double Trouble: Find 1&2&3&4& for every bar: eighth notes each get a syllable

                           Practice correct notes and counting for bars 1 to 8

ADVANCED HOMEWORK:

1.Your two octave scales are required practice for every week. Learn gradually  to play them  all with perfect tuning and at quick tempo. A new scale sheet will be handed out this week

2. Pachelbel Canon:  4/4 time in D major 
Violins- work on one section  at a time- this week up to bar 12 
Violas and cellos: mark in your fingerings with pencil if needed. You have repeated bars, so learn one at a time WELL and then learn the next one. It is NOT as hard as it looks- HONEST!

3.Canadian Ballad: 3/4 time  in G major
Work on your notes counting 3 in each bar  1&2&3& /1&2&3&
Learn notes and rhythms up to bar 8

4.Four Seasons: Harvest Home: 4/4 in G major 1&2&3&4&
Learn first four bars.

               PRACTICE CAREFULLY! YOU'LL SEE THE PROGRESS BY TUESDAY 

PLAY FAIR SUCCESSES and START UP TIMES THIS WEEK

Sept 17/16 post

see below for Class times and Registration info

PLAY FAIR Sept 17 , 2016: CONGRATULATIONS!

Dear Students, Parents, Board Members, Friends, and Friends of Friends! 

DEAR Advanced 15/16 Students, "Matters"- Rosebudders: 

 Kalpi, Mya, Leah, Raechel, Leila, Thea, Zoe and Ryan.

I am SO proud of you all, and thank you so much for performing today.  You played well and I hope had fun doing it. ALSO I hear that some of you also helped out with the face/hand-painting as well. A new talent I didn't know you had. We may make more use of that talent in future!

Our best Political FAN, Brampton City Councillor, Jeff Bowman, always loves you, (he hasn't missed a performance in the last year) but today he said, "Every time I hear them they get better and better!" He is right, and the more times we perform the more confident we get too!

We had an amazing team this morning- I am feeling so encouraged about the great support shown for MATT by our parents, Board and Friends.

All summer we have been working to put this project together, and together despite rain, last minute volunteer drop-outs, and small audiences,we pulled off  a great concert with lots of good news as a result.

As some of the parents reminded me, even if market people were intent on getting home quickly this morning, every one of those families now has a MATT flyer in their hands. That's called MATT "branding" and this was a main goal of the initiative.

Rogers Television has now shot the second MATT segment , to be aired over the next two weeks. If you have Rogers, watch for it- as you know their community coverage programs repeat frequently. They would like to come again soon and take some class footage.

AND ALSO

One Rose Theatre volunteer, a member of the Knights of Columbus, who had seen our Guardian article this spring,said-

"Our organization wants to help you- what can we do?" My very quick reply: "We need to purchase a 1/4 size bass right now, but the cost is very high." 

He offered to cover that cost for us through the K. of C. organization.

We have learned a lot from this event, and will definitely be better able to plan future outreach projects

I want to thank our fabulous team ,many of whom worked through the summer to help, and thank you to all those able to be there today : Susan Dal Dosso, Kanwal Murtaza, Richard and Wendy Lai, Ky Nguyen, Linette Gowe and Simone, Kendal and John Francey, Nives Bakker and "Mr. Bakker"

Heather Norman, Sean and Shaida Partington and Bem Partington,

Shannon Dixon, Sharon Hooper, Marcia Lovell, Jessica Tiensovan, 

Tanisha Hall, Niti Patel, Susan Thomas, Farah Merrick 
Shawn Ragoobar and Patrenella Lawson.

Thank you to our Board members: Steve, Frances, Bradley, Arlene and Bill; Wayne Strongman (who invented the project idea) and Leona Davidson.

And a special thank you to MATT student Marianna Georges! who had to cover for the henna/face painter. We have since learned that she had a car accident en route this morning, but is fortunately unhurt.

 You are an amazing youhg woman, Marianna!

We have learned a lot from this event, and will definitely be better able to plan  any future city outreach projects.

Much love and gratitude to you all!

See you Tuesday Sept 20th as

 ALL STUDENTS begin the 2016/17 MATT Year.

Beginner Registration will remain open for the next two weeks

CLASS TIMES:

Tuesday Beginners: 4 to 4:45

Wednesday Beginners: 5 to 5:45 pm

Intermediates 4:45 to 5:45 NB bring all last year's music to hand in

Advanced: 5:45 to 6pm NB bring all last year's music to hand in