PARENT PHOTOGRAPHERS NEEDED IN CLASSES

OCTOBER 24, 2018

PARENT NOTES

1. starting TUESDAY Nov 6. PLEASE NOTE CLASS TIME CHANGES:

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

2. CALENDAR EVENTS to note :
(a) STUDENT T-SHIRT ORDER- DUE Nov 1st 
                                          For Beginners  and any students who need a larger size.
   

(b) DECEMBER 7 MALL CONCERT 7pm. arrive 6:15pm- for all students. This date is now final. 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.

(c) ADVANCED ENSEMBLE ROSE THEATRE PERFORMANCE: SAT Dec 1st. evening is confirmed:
Student apparel: Purple dress shirts/blouses, worn with- Boys: black dress pants -Girls: appropriate colour or black skirt/pants, ALL please try to wear dress shoes. 
Boys: Please see Yogita to obtain boy's dress shirt and bow-tie. 
GIrls- see colour and style sample in class- please find a blouse with long or 3/4sleeves in similar colour. Suggest Suzy Shier at Shoppers World mall- or wherever you find one!

HOMEWORK THIS WEEK

BEGINNERS:
four practice days per week

BRING YOUR PRACTICE CHART to CLASS

           1. Review: how to sit/stand correctly to play

                             how to adjust your bow grip (bunny hops onto the bow)

               BOW GAMES: Coin/eraser on palm -sing twinkle
                                        Windshield wiper, Monkey crawl, coin on hand
               
               Name your strings- top to bottom, bottom to top

            2.   Review: Playing notes on your strings
               STEPS: 1.with your best bow grip, lift the bow over the strings, 
                             2. touch middle of bow hair to one string,
                             3. let your arm weight "Drop down" onto string, hear a "crunch"
                             4. pull one short stroke down and then up again

TIPS for best sound:
 a) bow sits half way between bridge and fingerboard
 b) bow moves parallel to string,
 c) hair is flat on string -violin: lean wood away from nose, 
                                    - cello and bass lean stick upwards
  d) right elbow and shoulder are relaxed

3. Review STRING CYCLE:     

4. NEW: 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

4. REVIEW : Placing the first finger on the string.  "open" D to E Reminders:

                                                           

• All students have a 1st finger tape to help find the correct note, one tone from the open string
• Left hand finger nails must be very short 
• fingers are " little hammers"- they do not open out, but stay rounded over the strings
• finger tip presses firmly onto the tape with "cushy part of finger"
• listen for clear tone (doh-ray)play DDDD EEEE- 0000-1111
• repeat to make a beautiful sound
• for good sound, pull the bow strongly -use half a bow length!

5. 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___

THURSDAY INTERMEDIATES 





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

1. Fandango: - HOLDING THE TEMPO WITH EIGHTH NOTES. 

                     Can you download a metronome on your phone or computer? "Sound corset" is the one I use for android phone. Find a good slow tempo and play in time with it! We need to learn steady tempo to play FANDANGO well!

CELLOS: LEARN to play ALL of your MELODY bars -especially bars 29 to 42! without mistakes. learn one bar at a time, slowly, then speed up! ! 

                        

ALL: NEW WORK CAREFULLY TO LEARN NOTES especially bars 75 to end!!

                   Write in note names where needed
                               

2. Review Scale of D one octave

3. Review: Trumpet Tune NEW : to be repeated in performance: 

           first line, piano, second line ff - fortissimo(as loud as possible-full bows!

4. Review: HTPO- Happy Song- notes and rhythms. Careful counting: letter B to  

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 
a) Continue D scale practice for "RE-TAKE BOWING"  for opening bars.
b) ALL MARK in and practice c# or f# on your LOWER strings 
                                            
2. Pachelbel's  CANON .

viola and bass- repeated two bars-learn to make beautiful ringing notesa) CUT -play to bar 20 then skip to bar 40.

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

3. Deep River: FOCUS ON BARS 31 TO 40 this week Careful counting.

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