HAPPY MARCH BREAK!

HAPPY MARCH BREAK!

NO CLASSES, NO LESSONS/THEORY  

Beginners' First class after March Break :Special Event : 
A Visit by Regional Counsellor Martin Medeiros on 21st March 2017 

Please arrive a little early with your child wearing the MATT t-shirts to the class.
Also, Parents, please bring in your cameras and mobile phones ready to take pictures of this special event!  Please send best one or two to Yogita to forward to Brampton Guardian!

IMPORTANT MATT DATES: 

• 1. SESSION III FEES DUE NOW.
• 2. ROSE ORCHESTRA  : SYMPHONIC Concert  March 25 Ticket order March 7 deadline
• 3.  April 29  Next ROSE /ROSE BUD concert  Ticket order April 18 deadline

• 4.          June 7 Dress rehearsal  5 p   
• 5. June 13:  Final Concert  (4:30 arrival 6pm concert).
• 6. June 21:  Year End Party  4-to 6 pm

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HOMEWORK ONGOING!!

PRACTICE  CHARTS REQUIRED FOR START OF ALL CLASSES 

  Beginners: 

 1. READING MUSIC!!! All for Strings Method Book (AFS)Review # 5 to 8 Add #9

 2.  Long, long ago:  Line 3 needs more study

              BOWINGS : Aim for  short short long etc.

                 Can YOU play it without looking at the note names???

  3.  D scale- Listen for perfect tuning of notes; Check sitting /standing position, bow grip, straight bow, whole bows

  4 . Review Twinkles : Long Bows

                                           Mississippi Hot Dog- middle bow  

                                           Run Pony  full and short bows

                                           Mississippi mississippi

4..THEORY HOMEWORK: Musical Words Hand out 

 Memorize YOUR lines and spaces, from bottom UP

Violins: 5 lines: Every Good Boy Deserves Fun.  
              4 spaces : F A C E 

Violas: 5 lines:  (FACE +G) OR Fat  American  Cats Eat  Garbage    
             4 spaces: Great Big Dogs Fight

Cellos and  Bass: 5 lines: Great Big Dogs Fight Always
                                 4 spaces: All Cows Eat Grass                        

       

       Intermediates: 

                         Practice charts required for start of all classes 
        1. NEW this week Ave Verum by Mozart . Bars 1 to 10

               Learn your notes, then add your slurs for smooth and calm effect .

       2. AFS Book: # 165 - A: violin 1 B: violin 2,  viola and cello 
       3. Scale of G
       4. Heart and Soul: NEW to bar 18. Practice UP BOWS after 1/8 rests and correct slurs! 

                                        

       5. MARCH. Pr. of Denmark -Learn to bar #26                                                                                    Practice your melody bars: 

       

       Advanced: 
                       Practice charts required for start of class every week 

       1. Intermezzo from Cavaliera Rusticana by  Mascagni: 

                  NEW: Bars 1 to 11. Violin 1 COUNTING is demanding. REVIEW: bar 20  to end.

                   LISTEN to this beautiful and famous piece on YOU TUBE

       2.Scale of G - TWO octaves

       3. Besame Mucho - ALL, with correct repeats, Dal Segno and Da Capo-
                            Learn to play your Melody line  with passion !!:

                 Viola bar 1- 11 Violin 2: letter B Cello :bar 24 Violin 1 letter A

          Continue perfecting rhythms -triplets, and "accidentals"  added flats or sharps 

       4. Grieg "Holberg Suite": Gavotte 
           Review : ALL, especially Bar 42 on: Learn "staccatos" (.) and tenutos (-)longer notes 
                

                                                

      FILL YOUR HEARTS WITH BEAUTIFUL MUSIC!!!

     “Music is the universal language of mankind.”