THEORY STARTS NOV. 20

November 14, 2018

PARENT NOTES

1.All students are requested to sign yes or no at Yogita's desk : 

Will you play Dec 6th Concert at Towers? We need to reply to Towers management. but it depends on student attendance. 

  details from last week's Blog::"NEW EVENT INVITATION for all students on Thursday  Dec 6 : 7pm ". To honor our generous Brampton Towers hosts, who provide all our MATT space at no charge, we need to answetr their request:

Can we add a Party Room Concert for Towers families- Dec. 6 Thu. 6:30-8pm 

c) THEORY SIGN UP CONTINUES. CLASSES START Tues Nov 20 

Testing on  day 1 for all!
Make sure you let Yogita know what book you need - NOW!!

CONCERT DATES 2018!!d) 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.  Review   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 :  D Scale NOTES   for scale of D major: UP and DOWN!!

    viola & violin: (UP) D  E  F#G A B C# D    (DOWN) C# B A G F# E D

                                      0  1  2 3    0 1    2 3                   2  1  0  g3 2  1  0

                  cello :  (UP) 0  1  3  4   0 1  3  4     (DOWN) 3  1 0   g4 3  1  0

                                                         

                        bass: D  E  F# G  A  B  C# D    (DOWN) C# B A  G   F# E D

                                  0   1  4    0  0  1   4   0                    a4  1 a0  g0  d4 1  0

4. NEW :Twinkle Line 2 and 3 - Use handout sheet - G F# E D 2 X each 

Line 2 same notes as D scale (DOWN) from G (on d string)

Line 3 same notes as D scale (DOWN) from open A  -A  G  F# E D 2 X each 

                                

5.Counting rhythms:                                     

REVIEW : "RUN PONY" Play the D scale with RUN PONY on each note

NEW: "Mississippi Hot dog"

THURSDAY INTERMEDIATES 

TUESDAY  INTERMEDIATES

five practice days per week

PRACTICE CHARTS NOW REQUIRED EVERY CLASS 

1. REVIEW    in red binder:  Angels we have heard/ 

NEW Hark the Herald Angels Sing-2. Review:  Scale of D one octave  -Christmas Song 

3. Review: Scale of G one octave March in the Style of Corelli -careful tuning

3.. Fandango: -   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. NEW : Two Carols: Twas in the moon of wintertime/ Here we come a caroling
2. 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 
                                            
3. Pachelbel  CANON : CELLOS NEW: play as written to bar 18, then repeat  first TWO bars to the end. Follow bowings

                          

 N.B. NEW  CUTS : play to bar 21 //skip to bar 40 Play to bar 46.// CUT to bar 55

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

4. Deep River: FOCUS ON CORRECT  BOWINGS  throughout

                                             especially in BARS 35 and 36  

                         REVIEW ALL PARTS