Striking a Chord with Turkish Rondo

Musical Alphabet   A B C D E F G 


This you tube clip  opens with a triad  Chords  Triads   Chords with 3 Notes


A B C D E F  GA B C D E       G chord
                      1     3     5 


A B C D E F# G A 
           1     3     5                         Dchord
  
Away in a Manger  

GD   GD    GD   DA 
DA   GD   GD   G D

Entrance Music Live 
 Mozart Rondo a la Turca 

 New Notes on lowest string 




4th Class Tasks 
Cross Lake Blues     String Crossing D to A     DD z z AA z z
Attacama Crossing   String Crossing  D to A  to V V l l  WTIR Rhythm 
Scale on D 
Scale on A 
Rock You Revisited   Low A  on  1 down on G string
Triads / Harmony       Away in a Manger 

Improvers 
Gmajor Scale  Two octaves 
Mo Gile Mear   New Tune 
Ode to Joy        
Michael Row The Boat Ashore   

2nd Chance Level 2   Frere Jacque , Twinkle  and French Folk Song 
                     Level 1 Track 3  D D z z A A z z
                                  Track 25 Scale on D 
                                  Track 24  Scale on A
                                   Track 4 String Crossing Open String 
                 

Up and down the ladder and Violin High Fives

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 

 Can you find the rhythm in the list below.

Bow Hands 
Fingers well over 
Thumb Bent 
Knuckles forward 

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

1 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 ?

Now you has Jazz video Watch the video 
4How many instruments are there?  How many can you name 
5Which members of the brass family is in the band . 
6Which woodwind member is present? 

7How many beats in each bar 3 or 4  
8There are two singers Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong  What instrument does Armstrong  play?  
9 Do all the instruments play at the same time ?

After School Group   Mo Gile Mear/ Scale of G Two octaves / Twinkle Variations 1 / Jingle Bells /Old Mac
Second Chance Class  Blues, French Folk Song , Twinkle  / Bowing Rhythms / Up Bows Ode to Joy / Down Bows I 's Call 

Tiptoe Triplets and One Down Blues

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 .   All classes had fun with the Blues Boogie 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  (Mr Walsh)  Track 3  DD_   __ A A _ _

Task 3
First Finger Blues

lD E D E l G G G_ l x 4   Track 13
0  1 0  1   0  0  0

lA B A Bl  D E D El

lG G G Gl G z D zl


Bonus Quiz  1 The painting on the classroom board was called Soleil Levant,. Can you find out who the artist was and when it was painted.

                    2 6/8 is the time signature of what Irish dance

                    3 Read more about Blues music here    http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/music/popular_music/blues1.shtml


                           Write your own short summary on your school blog
Where  and when was Blues music first heard. Who sang and played it .

After School Orchestra Class  
Present Maxym, Ali, Cayla, Katie, Lucy and Julia

Focus this term on Irish repertoire

1 Scale G major   D___________    A                          E______________
                                               3     0     1^2        3      0       1^2

2 Mo Gile Mear   squishy 2 on A string
3 Dawning of the Day  Work on rhythm first
4 Continue to  work on repertoire tunes 

listen to ‘Dawning of the Day’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Mo Gile Mear Stringschool’ on Audioboo