Debut Performance at Holy Family School Cafe

Ms Gill's Class

Trio Conga Bass Violin

Announcing a piece

All together Mr Connolly's class

Mr Connolly's Ensemble

Ms Bridge, Mr Connolly and Ms Gill's classes gave a stunning debut performance in the Holy Family School Cafe today.  There was only time for a very brief sound check before each class performed in turn for an invited audience . Here is the programme

Pizzicato
Toreador's March
Vivaldi in G
What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Foxtrot

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Arco ( With Bow)

Rock You
Wintertime in Russia
   guest slot Cielito Lindo / Pizzicato Polka
Ireland's Call

It was a very exciting morning .  Finally the moment we have worked very hard for over the last eleven weeks arrived , our first performance for a live audience. Ms Bridge's class were first to perform.  A special thank you to Niall's dad who came in specially with Niall's banjo. Niall did a solo turn for the sea shanty What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor.  Well done to the students who intoduced the items .  We had several excellent  double bass players , Lee, Seosamh, Joseph. Our leaders Hayley, James , Ada , Ben, Claudia and Eyosa did a great job in keeping everyone on track .  Emmanuel in Mr Connolly's class and Dylan in second class added some percussion on conga and ocean drum .



Ms Darmody was in the audience  as our special guest today .

Be sure you get a copy of the end of term mega quiz from your teacher.

I am looking forward to seeing you all after half term when we will be learning lots of new things to do on the violin and bass.  Can't wait!

Week 7 Dress rehearsal

All classes had a dress rehearsal  today for their debut next week . Here is the programme for Tuesday.

Pizzicato Corner

Toreador's March
Vivaldi on G
Drunken Sailor
Foxtrot

With Bow
Rock You
Wintertime in Russia
Ireland's Call

Putting it all together. week 6

Leading the  ensemble

As we come to the end of half term, we rehearsed our repertoire ( a  posh word for everything that we can play easily) .All three classes did the programme below

Foxtrot    x3  (with dipping and sidestep )
Toreador's March  x2  dipping
First finger riff /Drunken Sailor
Irelands Call   Bow Side to Side/ Retakes/Tremelo 
Wintertime in Russia
Rock You    Ti Ti quavers on A   (Mr Connolly's class)

Super bow hands

Several students tried out our double bass Geraldo (Roisin, Seosamh , Lee  Eyosa ) Remember the open strings are the same as the violin .  Elephant, Alligator Donkey Goat but in reverse order.

The big bass

 We included our windscreen wiper manoevre in our Irelands Call  and a tremelo to finish

Ben leads the ensemble

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Sporting Windmills

First finger riff
New note E Backing Track 10
Wintertime in Russia Track 1
Ireland's Call

Guest instrument: Clarinet

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We had a busy day today. We began by pressing hard with our first finger on D string to make new note E . We played our first finger riff and next week we will put some tunes with this. We played New Note E to a jazzy backing track.
Next we moved on to learning how to do windmill bows and played along to Ireland's Call . Remember you only sound on the first beat.
All classes worked on Wintertime in Russia bowing all of the rhythm .

***Don't forget , Right Hand on Bow , Fingers well over and thumb bent. Little finger in the circle.

Star Bow Hands Frankie and Sabrina
Leaders Hayley and James, Zusanne,