OCTO BOOOOOO 31

OctoBOO! 31, 2018

PARENT NOTES

1. NEXT WEEK TIME CHANGES  starting Nov 6  and on....

Beginners: arrival 4:15, class: 4:30 to 5 pm

Intermediates: arrival 5pm, class:5 :15 to 6 pm

Advanced  :arrival 6 pm, class: 6:15 to 7:15

2. ONE MORE TIME!! PARENT PHOTOGRAPHERS -CLASS PHOTOS NEEDED 

If you have a phone and can be in class, please take some happy shots of students, as they come in, as they tune up, as they set up, and as they play. ALWAYS ask for smiles!

Then send them to Ms Andrea-andrea@musicatthetowers.ca

  We'll post them on this Blog and use some for the year end power point!

2. CALENDAR EVENTS to note :
a)THEORY SIGN UP for ALL Intermediates and Advanced  -see Yogita.
           Bring in your Theory workbook to Ms. Currie for level estimate.  
           NB: Book 1 test required before Alfred Theory  starts.

b) ENSEMBLES will start February

c) DECEMBER 7 MALL CONCERT: 7pm. arrive 6:15pm- for all students. . Please ensure that your child will be available to perform that evening.Dress:  MATT t-shirt and festive colourful pants/skirt/ accessories- no blue jeans please.

d) ADVANCED ENSEMBLE ROSE THEATRE PERFORMANCE: SAT Dec 1st. :

HAVE you got your shirt/blouse yet? 
Student apparel: Purple dress shirts/blouses with- Boys: black dress pants -Girls: appropriate colour or black skirt/pants, ALL please wear dress shoes. 

Boys: Please see Yogita to obtain boy's dress shirt and bow-tie. 

GIrls- see colour and style sample in class

HOMEWORK THIS WEEK

BEGINNERS:
four practice days per week

BRING YOUR PRACTICE CHART to CLASS

           

1. Review STRING CYCLE:     

2.                 0-1 STRING CYCLE. 

Play each string 4x with no finger down (OPEN -0) then 4X with 1st finger.

Go through all strings up and down, LISTENING for correct note

3. REVIEW: TWINKLE LINE 1:  "___" means long bow- all other notes, short bow

                                 note names:            D D A A B B A___

                                 finger number          0  0 0  0 1 1  0___

4.NEW :  D STRING NOTES   for scale of D major:

                                       viola & violin: D  E  F#G

                                                    0  1    23  (finger tips 3 an d 3 touch)

                                               cello : D  E  F# G all fingers equally spaced

                                                           0   1   3   4

                                                bass: D  E  F# G

                                                           0   1  4    0

5. NEW :Counting rhythms:    

4/4 time signature:  4 equal "quarter notes"  in each bar.  Count "1-2-3-4"

                              =  8 equal "eighth notes" in each bar. Count "1+2+3+4+"

                                                                        

THURSDAY INTERMEDIATES 

INTERMEDIATES
five practice days per week
PRACTICE CHARTS NOW REQUIRED EVERY CLASS 

1. NEW:  Scale of D one octave  Christmas Song 

2. NEW: Scale of G one octave March in the Style of Corelli 

3.. Fandango: -   LINE UP stand to see conductor beat while reading music,

                            to keep beat correctly with conductor:

                    

                            ALL:  Learn bars 75 to end!!

                            Write in note names where needed                                

4. Review: Trumpet Tune  : to be played twice through in performance: 

         Dynamics for 2nd time through : first line, piano, second line ff -                                                                              fortissimo(as loud as possible) -full bows!

5. Review: HTPO- Happy Song- notes and rhythms. Careful counting  

ADVANCED
five practice days per week
PRACTICE CHARTS NOW REQUIRED EVERY CLASS 

1. Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: focus only on learning to play well your most difficult bars- CIRCLE them and practice them carefully and slowly 
 ALL- REMEMBER to  MARK in and practice c# or f# on your LOWER strings 
                                            
2. Pachelbel's  CANON : CELLOS NEW: bars 9-14 

                          Follow bowings

                  N.B. CUT: play to bar 20 then skip to bar 40.

b) violas and cellos Write in NOTE NAMES  and fingerings on your lower strings
c) ALL  tune  your sharps (cellos-extensions) on lower strings 

3. Deep River: FOCUS ON CORRECT  BOWINGS  throughout

                                             especially in BARS 35 and 36  

                         REVIEW ALL PARTS                                 

4. Four  new Christmas Carols - read through at home,