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???