Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Rock You Revisited and shaken by a low A

Task List 29 th January 


1    2^3  down 
Violin High Fives 

Cross lake Blues             String Crossing   D D z z A A zz   Track 3

Attacama Crossing          v v 1 1 z z v v I  I   D and A strings   Track 4 

Scale on D                           Track 25         

Scale on A                            Track 24 

Rock You                  First finger on G string to make low not A   Track 19

Finger gym  First Finger Knock on Wood

Level Game 







Welcome Aaron and Michael to Mr Corbett's class


     3 2 1 0   11      We Will , We Will Rock You 
G_______________

Pack Up Team today

My set up assistant Ms Pilkington



Improvers' 

Claudia, Brendan, Emmanuel,  Treaty March March 2 

Hayley Emilia, Sophie     Treaty March  Rhythm Work 


Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Up and Down the Ladder & Violin High Fives


New track Car-ni-val- in R-io  Track 10

1 Rhythm 1 Wintertime in Russia
A new track today but a familiar rhythm.        V V 1 1     Ti Ti Ti Ti Ta   Ta

2 Violin High Five   1       2 ^3

2 NEW TODAY  Scale  on D
Scale comes from the word ladder                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

3 Down Up LADDER
ASCENDING  0 0 0 0  0    1 down 1 1 1 1  1 1   2 down 2 2 2  2  2  3 down 3 3 3 3 3  3   3 again 

3 DOWN LADDER
DESCENDING 3 down  3333 3 3   lift up 3    2222 2 2   lift up 2  1111 1 1  lift up 10000 0 0 open D 

Quiz
Why is  musical scale like a ladder ?
2 There is a famous opera house called La Scala Where is it?
3 What two left hand fingers are closest together ? Don't forget tose bow hands 

Fingers well over 
Thumb Bent 
Knuckles forward 

Thanks to my helpers from Mr Corbett's class who helped to pack up today 

Improvers Group

New March Watch this post I will be adding  a recording of this new tune soon.

Rhythm Right
Remember  Single Upbeat =Upbow

Doreen Dami, James, Hayley, Sophie, Emilia, Emanuel, Ben, Brendan






Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Triplets, Treaty Stones and January Blues

New programme today

We began work on our term 2 task list today. We continue to work on placing first finger and place 2nd   and 3rd in the coming weeks . Today we add a new triplet rhythm .  Check out the video on the side on how to play the Blues

Task 1
Rhythm 3  Triplets { 1 1 1 1 1 1}    Track 5 Chopsticks
                                 1 2 3 4 5 6
                       6/8    Six short  beats  (tiptoe)
                   

This is a very important rhythm for Irish dancers  in JIGS

Shadow bowing and Bowing on D String and
first finger down on D (E) to  jig  Lilting Banshee  

Task 2

Cross  Lake Blues  Ms Loftus class  Track 3  DD_   __ A A _ _

Task 3
First Finger Blues

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





Improvers Group
Congratulations to the members of the  group who were admitted to the HFSS Band .
1 Work today The Treaty Stone March

2 G Major  ( 1^2      3    0   1^2      3 )   Finger pattern on D and A string  C natural
   D Major Scale
Up beat  Use an up bow
4th finger placement some  Use 4th instead of open string in 3rd line last bar   to avoid changing string

Listen to the tune in the recordings prepared for you below

Rhythm only  Try  playing the rhythym on open string D with the recording
                     When you are happy with the rhythm,  work on the fingers


Continue to play term 1 tunes to work on bowing .

Bowing Tips
1 Use middle of bow and
2 bowing near bridge  not near fingerboard

Present Brendan, Emmanuel, Hayely, Emilia, Sophie, Dami,  Ben,