Samba Day

A New Fiddle

 















Beguine  Samba rhythm
Blues     
Scale
Twinkle  coming on 
Free Style  We got some great special effects for thunder, rain, rolling boats

Improvers  Star of County Down

 

Happy Blues at Holy Family

Back after a short break for midterm . Focus today on Blues .  Don't forget to check out the video lesson.

Programme

Notes on D String 

1  First Finger Blues   Dance Version, Finger Drum Version and pizz version

D E D E  G G G_   x 4
0  1 0  1   0  0  0

A B A B  D E D E

G G G G G z D z



2 Scale on D

3  Scale on A 

Level Game 

Welcome to new student Alex  from Brazil 

Next week  Beguine A samba on all 4 strings and one of Brazils most popular tunes Tico Tico 

Improvers' Group 
Claudia, Brendan, Hayley, Emmanuel, Emilia  
Minstrel Boy and Treaty Stone March 

  

Tango and Twinkles

1 Entrance music today was a tango  La Cumparsita  all the way from Argentina in South America .  We added some percusssion with some handclapping

2/3  All classes worked on the scales on D (track 25)  and A (tr 24)

4 Finally we worked on our first  three finger  Twinkle Twinkle . It went very well here are the fingers we need  Notes in green are on the A string

****NEW Today ***

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Line 1
D D   A  A     B  B    A_  
0  0     0 0       1  1     0 
G G   F# F#   E  E    D _ 
3   3    2  2     1    1     0        

Line 2
A A   G G   F# F#  E_
0  0    3  3    2   2    1
A A   G G   F# F#  E_
0  0    3 3      2  2    1_

DD    A A   B B   A _     same as line 1
G G  F# F# E  E   D _ 

5 Finally Mr Corbett's and Ms Loftus's class listened to a bit of Spring by Vivaldi .   We played along with pizz on  the note E (first finger on D) and added some tremelo . Bravo tuttti!   

Improvers Group 

Listen to the Minstrel Boy below I have posted two versions, one at a slow tempo.

Gp 1Brendan, Hayley, Emmanuel,  Gp 2  Sophie, James 

Tunes today  Gp 1 March 2 , Minstrel Boy 

Gp 2 Treaty Stone March.

Double Stopping Finding a rhythmic ostinato that fits 

listen to ‘The Minstrel Boy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘The Minstrel Boy slow’ on Audioboo