Finale Presto 17

Presto Violin Programme participants with achievement certificates

Congratulations to all the students on the after school violin programme.

Lessons concluded with a tour of four classes and finished with an ice cream concert in the pre fab.

Week 10

Checklist Mar 14

Tick when you can play

1 Waltzing Scale on D   titi Ta Ta  on every not D to D’

2 Tick when you can find harmonic high G on G and high D on D string

3 Part 1 Valsette (first 8 bars)

4 Part 2 Valsette (including hooked bows in 2^nd last basr)

5Play arpeggio on D  DDD F#FF AAA D’D’D’ AAA F#FF DDD 

                                      0 0 0 2 2 2  0 0 0    3 3 3 0 0 0  2 2 2 0 00

6 Sing and Play Lightly Row

7Sing and play  French Folk Song  106

8 Twinkle Twinkle, Hot Cross Buns , Fingers  and feet , Blues, Mary Little Lamb

Tunes to try at home Frere Jacque,  no 88, Jingle Bells 41  Old McDonald 42

Play through your Stringschool CD Can you find a not and a rhythm to fit every track 

Week 9

Here is what we did today

Open string tunes :  Foxtrot: Check your bow hold  Fingers well over lean your hand / Little finger on top

Scale on D  ti ti ti ti  Ta  Ta   Try this on A and E strings too

Blues:  Swing it  on G

Warm Ups Hot Cross Buns/ Fingers and Feet/ Mary Had a Little Lamb

Finding the harmonics: Touch lightly with little finger

Adding riffs to Skye Boat Song

Lightly Row  no 22 Work on the last two bars first.

Valsette  A little waltz  Work on phrase by phrase




 

Week 8

Group Class 28^th Feb  Music Marathon

Open String Tunes

Foxtrot    Arco  piano / forte  Bow near bridge

Beguine   pizz /arco tremolo     

 

 

Boogie on the Open D

One finger down Tunes

One Down Blues

Skye Boat Song Duet Part

Sharks Out

New Tune Valsette

1 and 2 down tunes

Hot Cross Buns

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Mary Had a Baby

3 Fingers/ One string

Morning Dance Seminole Chant

Finger and Feet

Beginners

3 Finger Tunes  2 + Strings

Twinkle plus variations

Advanced Group

Ode to Joy   French Folk Song , Can Can, Old MacDoanld

Lightly Row/  Drunken Sailor / Jingle Bells

Skye Boat Song  with Duet        Somewhere Over the Rainbow

 

Week 7

Worksheet Feb 21^st

 

Please note that in a change to last week’s notification, there will be a lesson next week  Feb 28^th . 

 

28^th Feb and March 7^th  Lessons as usual

 

No Lesson March 14^th

 

Task List

Task 1 Warm Up

 

Twinkle Twinkle  Variation  Everybody Down Up

 

Task 2

Fingers and Feet  2222 3333 2222 1111 2222 3333 22 1 1 ___

 

Task 3

Rain Rain Go Away   Get used to jumping from 3 to 1

 

3 1 33 1  33  11 33 1

 

Task 4 Twinkle Twinkle  1  Rhythm Only   2 Fingers pizz  3 Fingers arco

 

 

 Task 5 Merrily we roll along Bow the  rhythm   no 19 Essential Elements  Can you name all the notes on the stave version  F# E D E ……..

 

Task 6 We Will We Will Rock You   On G String   3 2 1 0 11  11  Track  14

 

Task 5 Scary Harmonics  Octave harmonic  To find this special sound , touch the string very lightly about half way along with your 4th finger . This is the harmonic sign  0

 

Task 7- 10  Essential Elements Violin Book

 Work through tunes page 6  to 9   concentrate on 20 and 21 Good King and Lightly Row

 

  Director Cathy Desmond  email cdstringschool@gmail,com  Tel 0861041626

Improvers  Lesson 21^st February

Tutor Alice Foley

Lesson next week as usual

1 New Tune Somewhere over the Rainbow   work on middle phrase today

Practice string crossing from D to A  Get it nice and smooth

Practice retake on open string then place finger on B first on A string  Make the note last a loooooong time  5 beats.

Uke chords are marked in boxes above melody Try with Uke and open string cello

2 Twinkle Duet part harmony use 4^th finger and high 3 finger for c# on G string

3 Three Key Rollalong  Middle section  3^rd high on G# on D string

Ukulele Corner  Oh Christmas Tree

Chords G  , D7 , Am , C , G7

4 Repertoire Tunes Drunken Sailor . Hot Cross Buns 9new version with octave leap)  Jingle Bells Ode to Joy Good King Wenceslas Mary had a Baby

5 Skye Boat Song Work on Duet part Finding harmonics

Email cdstringschool@gmail.com

            Lesson notes posted on presentationstrings.blogspot.com

 

 

Worksheets and notes on classes are posted on www.presentationstrings.blogspot.com

Week 4

Today we welcomed our assistant teacher Alice. Alice worked with the advanced group today  on a new song Somewhere Over the Rainbow . Class notes for both groups are posted below.

 

 

 

Group Class Tues 31^st  Jan   Stringschool at Presentation  Worksheet 4

Task 1

Open string Rhythms Hopping and Skipping 15  / Wintertime in Russia 4/ Down River Up river 16

Task 2

Scale using the rhythms above Play your name rhythm

 

                                                                                                       A A  1 1  A_

Task 3 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star    Beginning       D D                                        3 3  2 2  1 1  D_

 

Middle                                                                 A A                                      AA

                                                                                            3 3 2 2 1 __                  3 3 2 2 1______     

 

Repeat beginning line

 

Task 4

Hot Cross Buns    2 1  0 sh  2 1 0 sh   00 00 11 11  2 1 0_

 

Task 5  Merrily we roll along Bow the  rhythm on open  D  then on A

 

On D string                   2101 222 _111_222_

                        2101 2222 1121 0___

 

Task 6 New song  Fingers and feet D string

 From our  fin gers  to our   feet we   always   play    a  steady   beat, we

   2  2      2 2    3 3    3 3      2 2     2 2     1 1   1  1

 

Keep   it  go ing    in a    song if    notes  are  short   or  long _______

 2  2    2  2   3 3    3  3      2   2      1  1   0

 

Task 8 Rain Rain Go  Away  3 1 33 1 33 11 33 1 _

 

Task 9 Revise Fox Trot  and Blues  Track 2  DDD _ AAA_ DDD_ AAA_

                                                                DDD_ DDD_ AAA_ AADsh

 

                                                 D E D E G G G_ x 4

         Track 24    Blues               Middle        A B A B D E DE

                                                 G G G G G sh D sh

 

 

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Improvers

 

 

 

Improvers  Lesson 31^st Jan

Tutor Alice Foley

1 New Tune Somewhere over the Rainbow   110 on supplementary sheet  two phrases . In what way are they the same and in what way are they different.

Practice getting octave leap in tune at start first.  Then look at the other two leaps .

Uke chords are marked in boxes above melody Try with Uke and open string cello

2 Twinkle Duet part harmony  use 4^th finger and high 3 finger for c# on G string

3 Three Key Rollalong  Middle section  3^rd high on G# on D string

Ukulele Corner  Oh Christmas Tree

Chords G  , D7 , Am , C , G7

4 Repertoire Tunes Drunken Sailor . Hot Cross Buns 9new version with octave leap)  Jingle Bells Ode to Joy

 

 

 

Week 3

Group Class Tues 24^th Jan   Stringschool at Presentation

Task 1

Open String Tune New Rhythm Hopping and Skipping Track 16

Work on last two rhythms  Down River Up River Track 18    Group 2  Bile Em Cabbage

Task 2

Open String Sight reading Boogie on the Open D  Boogie on the open D

                                                                                        Boogie on the open G  titi titi titi TA

                                                                                        Boogie on the open D

                                                                                        Boogie on the A___  tititi titi TA sh

                                                                                        Boogie on the open D

                                                                                         Boogie on the open G

                                                                                        Boogie on the D then     G     Yeah  

Task 3

 

Scale on D   Track 10 Three Rhythms Wintertime in Russia / and the other two rhythms from task 1

 

Task 4             track 30       

 

                                                                                           A A 1 1 A

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star    Beginning       D D                                        3 3 2 2 1 1 D

 

Middle                                                                 A A                                      AA

                                                                                            3 3 2 2 1 __                  3 3 2 2 1______     

 

Repeat beginning line

Advanced group    duet part

 

Task 5

Hot Cross Buns    2 1  0 sh  2 1 0 sh   00 00 11 11  2 1 0_

 

Task 6  Merrily we roll along Bow the  rhythm on open  D  then on A

 

On D string                   2101 222 _111_222_

                        2101 2222 1121 0___

 

Task 7  Ode to Joy   D D sh sh A A sh sh  

 

Task 8 Rain Rain Go  Away  3 1 33 1 33 11 33 1 _

 

Task 9

Revise Fox Trot  Track 2  DDD _ AAA_ DDD_ AAA_

                                            DDD_ DDD_ AAA_ AADsh

 

Task 10 First finger Riff   1 1111111 00000000 11111111 0000 1  1