Pupils at Holy Family primary school Ennis, Co.Clare learn to play the violin from scratch
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
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
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
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
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
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 ***
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
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 _
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.
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