Away We Go : Rest and Play

Great Day At Ennis 

We had a very exciting day at Holy Family Senior School Ennis  as all the 4th classes began the HFSS String  2012 programme .    Well done to the classes of Mr Griffin,, Mr Corbett and Ms Loftus .  Super attention and concentration in the first class today!

We learned the name of all four strings today.

We learned how to hold the violin in rest and play position .

Thank you to Preincipal, Ms Barnes', who called in to wish us well.

Demonstrating the Double Bass

Away We Go in Rest Position

*Mr Corbett's class  met all three members of the bowed string family.  can you remember what they were  (C_ _ _ _ . D_ _ _ _ _ _B _ _ _) ?

*We learned about low pitched and high pitch . What  is the lowest pitched string  on the violin. ?

*We learned to hold our violins in two positions ,  (a) rest and (b) play position.

We played pizzicato ( plucking the string on  lowest string G to Old McDonald track 18)

*We learned the names of all four violin strings (see above)

*We practiced a bow . 

BRAVO TUTTI !

Improvers' Group

10 students

1 Ben, Dami, Doreen, Brandon

2, Claudia, Emmanuel, Brendan, Ailish, Hayley, Emilia

Revision of Tunes 

Old MacDonald and Twinkle 

New Note C natural  (2nd finger back on A string) 1^2 

Exercise 'Jaws' Start with 1st finger on A . Place your 2nd finger next to it to make C natural . Repeat to make the 'Jaws' theme 

1---^2   1---^2   1^2 1^2 1^2

Make sure your second finger is touching the first.

Slurring  two notes in one bow