PARENT NOTES
1. Advanced students received a letter for Parents Tuesday-
- PLEASE ensure you see it!
2. T shirt order deadline Thursday Nov 17: The following orders have NOT been received:
Mya Norman ; Misha and Riley Partington; Sofia Popovic,; Leah Tiwari,
Please email (or phone) the correct size to:
andrea@musicatthetowers.ca
Order must be placed Friday morning - we must select the size for you if you do not.
3. MATT IMPORTANT DATES confirmed:
1.Rose Orchestra Dec 3rd Concert ticket orders, with payment, due Tues. Nov. 22, this week. NO extensions.
2. ALL students perform Friday eve. Dec. 9th Concert -Shoppers World Mall Dec.9 7pm - 8:30
3.Advanced Class Rose Theatre- Intermission Performance Sat.Dec 3rd- arrive 7pm
4. MATT Winter Break: Last class DEC 20 and DEC 21. Resume JAN. 10th5. Session 2 PAY DATE December 6
HOMEWORK this week:
BEGINNERS:
REVIEW 1. perfect bow hold (RH on chart)
Bow exercises: 2."elevator"- Coin/eraser "Windshield wiper" 3 "Monkey crawl".
BOWING - STEPS for good sound: LIft bow over string, "touch down" flat bow hair. Relax arm weight onto hand, feel the "grab", then PULL four strokes on each open string.
STRING CYCLE: .Pull four short strokes in the middle of the bow on each string lowest to the highest string and back to the lowest.
OPEN -1 .STRING CYCLE: Play 4 x open then 4x 1 on each string. Listen for correct tuning and fix as needed,
NEW THIS WEEK.
1.TWINKLE LINE 1
Use the sheet handed out to review line 1 of Twinkle. Practice many times with smooth and clear sound
2.D SCALE. Placing the first/ second/ third (/fourth) finger on the D string.D E F# G :
HOW:? The FIRST finger tip touches on the tape on D string to get the note E,
then VIOLIN/VIOLA add finger 2 with big space for F# and 3 right beside 2 for G
CELLO:after finger 1 E. add fingers 2 and 3 with spaces between to get F# , add 4 for G
BASS: after finger 1 add 4 for F# and the G string for G (Elizabeth will offer alternates)
INTERMEDIATES Week 2 lessons and Theory this week-take your difficult passages to your lesson and make sure your teacher helps you learn them !!
CHARTS TO BE BROUGHT TO CLASS- PRACTICE 5 DAYS- AT LEAST 30 MIN PER DAY! If you consistently don't have a chart,YOU will not play in the class!
Practice at least FIVE days a week.
Practice scales : G and scale of D
1. AFS book CONCERT TRIO #126 for December concert Learn YOUR assigned part A B or C# with the repeats, first and second ending and Da Capo. First ending is only played ONCE in the song- the first time through!
2.. Sahara Crossing -
Special bars to practice this week:Bar 52 rhythm, learn to bar 61
Bar 64 to the end
Bar 68 PIZZICATO
Bar 43- two strings at once
Practice the Road map. From beginning,play to BAR 63, then go back to BAR 27 S(SIGN) . Play to BAR 40 , (to CODA) then jump to BAR 64 , (CODA) to end .
ADVANCED Week 2 lessons this week- take your difficult passages to your lesson and make sure your teacher helps you learn them !!
CHARTS TO BE BROUGHT TO CLASS- PRACTICE 5 DAYS AT LEAST 40 MIN PER DAY! If you consistently don't have a chart you will not play in the class!
VIOLIN TRIO for MALL CONCERT- will be rehearsed this week. Learn your part at home this week-end!
NEW PIECE:1. Three Christmas Pieces- we will play the first two.
work most on your solo parts where you have the tune- make it sound beautiful!
2. Harvest Home:We are making good progress, but there is more work to be done! NEW CUT : Bars 27 to 30
3. Canon: CUT - play to bar 14, cut to bar 43 NEW CUT : bars 49 to 53 are out.
bars 19 to 21 may be played one octave lowered. Mark it in
VIOLAS: Practice pizz notes with clear sound . Especially bar 2 :
Cellos: in TUNE notes- smooth and beautiful tuning. Practice till it's easy to play the B and F3 in bar 1
Violins: learn all passages- in small sections for clear sounds.
4.Canadian Ballad: Learn the notes for the whole piece.
all above on list for Dec 3 Rose Theatre concert.
: carol binders to be handed out this week
SOUNDING BETTER AND BETTER- KEEP AT IT!!
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