SUPPORTING PROGRESS

 

PARENT MEETINGS

 

RE CAP: This week's meetings helped review some of the ways to support your child's learning. It was a pleasure to meet with all parents who made themselves available .Your thoughts are always welcome, and your help is encouraged in any way you feel you can help!

 

IF YOU MISSED YOUR MEETING:
Pick up the handout and BE SURE read it carefully.

NOTICE about LESSON CHANGE REQUESTS BY PARENTS:

 

Please note that from now until the end of June, NO CHANGES will be made to private lessons schedule. Since other parents and students must be affected to do so, it is both impossible and unfair to make any changes until next fall.

Rest assured that the very best effort was made in September to meet your needs as you stated them. Many hours were spent putting together a lesson schedule based on these requirements.

 

ALSO do not ask for alterations to the Private lesson ABSENCE POLICY . Please keep this document handy and use it to understand what is required, in order to continue to receive private lessons.

 

No further comments / requests on either of the two topics above are to be handled by Claudia this year.

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FYI We are now about to advertise for a new Admin Assistant for next fall. If you or someone you know has the qualifications, and lives nearby, please let then know we will be posting an application in the near future. We will want to provide some training through Claudia this spring.

Claudia has done an amazing job- she will be very hard to replace. BUT she will be returning to her previous work next fall

and hopes to continue with us as a supportive parent!

 

HOMEWORK THIS WEEK
 

Beginners:

 

BRING PRACTICE CHART TO CLASS: 4 to 5 x 20 min practice sessions

 

1.LONG BOWS-straight bows on open strings 

2.0-1 String cycle with beautiful sound and in-tune first finger

3.Scale of D

4.TWINKLE- long bows

5. Mississippi hot dog on each note of Twinkle- start at MIDDLE of bow

6. Run Pony : LONG short short, LONG short short, once  each Twinkle note

7. Mississippi, Mississippi : short short short short, short short short short on   EACH note (eight bow strokes on each note of Twinkle)  HOW?

Start at MIDDLE of bow, use elbow motion start DOWN BOW(to the right)

 

8. New Song starting next class

 

Intermediates:

 

 1. BRING PRACTICE CHART TO CLASS:  5 x 20 - 30 min practice sessions

 

2. Theory quiz- will be reviewed next class

3. Each student will be given a Suzuki Song book on loan for private lessons-within the next couple of weeks. You are to practice your song very thoroughly for each lesson- you have two weeks to perfect your assignment. Also ask your teacher to help you with one or two SHORT parts of your class work

4.AFS Review all sections between #167 and 171.

5. Work on 2 lines of  Pomp and Circumstance every day.

6. NEXT WEEK- a beautiful new piece of music!

 

 

Advanced:
 

Practice Guides to be carefully filled in and brought to class

1. VIBRATO: practice exercise only. To prevent developing bad habits later, please do not use it in music until approved.
 



2. Girl from Ipanema- new challenging section: 
                                 melody at D-cello/viola
                                 for violin1: melody at G.
                                 for violin 2:tune at G for 8 bars-Ab and Ab and G#
                                 Bass:  sharps and flats at C and D
                                Careful work on precise rhythm changes 5 after D
 

3. Fiddle Dance learn well: 6 bars before 3 one bar and
                                           7 bars after 3-one bar perfectly in tune

                                           Review all of the piece.
 

4, Macpherson: Review all up to bar 29-learn YOUR melody part well,
                                                          so it  sounds beea  --  uu  --  tiful!
 

5.Review :Beethoven and Pomp

 

                                          We are making progress!

NEW MUSIC COMING SOON!!