Presto Performance

Presto Strings  Concert Programme Tues 10^th Dec

'A historic and auspicious day The first time every member of a class in Presentation  has performed on the violin' . So said Bean Ui Nuallán when introducing the 90 students from 3rd and 4th class who gave their first perfromance for their colleagues in the hall. It was a splendid occasion. We had some lovely clear announcements. Excellent leadership from Isobel, Maryam, Simone and Adriana . We had a wonderful solo from Roisin who played Twinkle Twinkle.

Final programme 

Concert cd with Piano Ms Tobin 

Ms Bourke

1 Foxtrot                        Piano acc

2 Mary Had a Baby    Key D 

3 Ode to Joy      Key D      D D zz A A zz

4 Ireland’s Call    Track  2

Ms   Fitzgerald

1 Vivaldi in G  Track 3

2 Wintertime in Russia    Track 4

3  Good King  Wenceslas    G/D  Green Squares / Blue Squares  Rhythm Good King

4 Rock You   plus Encore   Track 5/6

Ms Keating

1 Toreador’s March   track 7

2 Mo Gile Mear  G / D Green/ Blue

3 Dawning of Day  D D zz AA zz

4 Reel  A A B B A A B B     pizz and arco   with dancers

Ms Nolan

Twinkle Twinkle   1st Time Roisin  2^nd tutti 3^rd    Pause Repeat  with audience singing .

Away in a Manger   pizz   Chord sheet G and D

O Christmas Tree Chord sheet Down Bow Retakes

Jingle Bells Stomp in verse  and pizz on D

So what were the highlights. 'My favourite was Irelands Call'  'I liked when Ms Keating played with us' 'Rock You was cool'  'Roisin was terrific' were some of the comments I heard.  I would add that I liked it when everyone joined in the singing. Well done to the announcers and leaders ( Isobel, Simone,Adriana and Maryam)  I am so pleased and proud of all my students. 

See you all in 2014 for the next level .

Check back here for some pictures when I have them to hand. 

Rehearsal

Concert 11.30 in Hall



We had the first of our rehearsal today for our concert next week.  We were joined by Ms Tobin on piano. Here is our final programme.  Concert will be at 11.30 in the Hall We will perform in this order

Leaders Isobel, Simone, Maryam , Andrea , Chanice

Cellos  Drums  Mary et al

Ms Nolan 

Music Rap
Toreadors March pizz


Twinkle Twinkle     One line intro on piano
   featuring Roisin  as Soloist   Ist time solo with piano
                                                 2nd time with class rhythm on D
                                                 3rd time same repeat with words


Away in a Manger    2 verses     Rhthym Way in  pizz

 G G G D
D G G D
G G G D
D G G G


O Christmas Tree  arco  G G D G    Down Bow Retakes
                                       G G D G
                                        G A DG
                                        G G D G
Jingle Bells  One Line intro   Bally gunner Ardkeen rhythm Stompy feet  in verse

Ms Fitzgerald
Vivaldi in G
Wintertime in Russia
Good King Wenceslas
Rock You

Ms Keating 

1 Toreador's March

2 Mo Gile Mear  

        Green Squares G / Blue and orange squares D

3 Dawning of the Day D D zz A A

4 Reel    A A B B           Rhythm  Bally zz
A A B B   pizz quavers   D D
           Pick up bows

Ms Bourke 

1 Foxtrot
2 Mary Had a Baby  x 3
3 We Three Kings First finger on D  CHorus  oOpen G  Rhythm We Three Kings
3 Ode to Joy
4 Ireland's Call Backing Track

I will visit all 4 classes for a briefing before 11.00

                     

Draft Concert Programme

Week 10 marks halfway point of Level 1 programme.   We added more live accompaniments today on piano and accordion .

Next week Ms Tobin will join 4th classes  at 11.15- 12.30 pm  on piano

3rd classes will be in the afternoon 1.15 Ms Keating  150 Ms Fitzgerald

Draft Programme

We added in a cello today which added rich lower tones
also a piano
Ms Keating brought her accordion.

Class Ms Bourke
Foxtrot/ Toreadors March
Mary Had a Baby  Ti Ti Ti Ti  Ta Ta
Ode to Joy                  
Ireland's Call   Toto drum ostinato  Key D


Ms Nolan
Music Rap
Toreador's March  Vicky Cello
Twinkle Twinkle  with Roisin
Jingle Bells

Ms Fitz
                                                         Vivaldi in G/ O Come All Ye Faithful
                                                         Wintertime in Russia
                                                         Rock You
                                                         Good KING Wenceslas  A A zz A A zz Quavers on A

Ms Keating

Mo Gile Mear           Open G and D  l l z z
Dawning of the Day  D D z z A A ZZ
Reel                           D D D D z z z z D D D D zzzz
tbc                             4th item


Next week  more dancing


                                                     

String Crossing The Sound of Silence

We did two new things today.

1(a) We learned how to change from one string to the another.  Elbow down and elbow up to move from one string to another

(b) We used this riff to add an accompaniment to Ode to Joy Track17


2 We listened for the silences in Vivaldi in G and how to recognise a one and two beat rest


Revision 3 We practiced our Kilfenora Ceili Dancer rhythm . This week we called it Bal lyGun ner Bal ly Bric ken

4 We played our first rhythm Win-ter time-in Rus-sia  and renamed it Bal-ly-gun-ner Ard -Keen

Kilfenora Ceili Dancers and Play Your Name

 Our programme today



1 Pizz tune D and A Foxtrot (4th)  and  Toreador's March (3rd)  Track 2 and 14
2 New Rhythm Kil-fen-or-a Cei-li Dan-cer  Track  6  piano (soft) forte (loud) more bow

3 Say your name . How many syllables . Say It -Clap it -Play it
4 Down Bow Retakes 1 sh sh sh  To Ode to Joy 17
5 Bonus Tarck 19 We Will Rock You

 Good Bowhold Model  and Leader 

Rap and Rock Yoy

The programme resumed today with a 5 task challenge . Here is what we did today

1  Feel the Beat Rap

2 Fox Trot  Boogie (Ms Bourke only)

3  New Today ***  Rock You   We Will We Will Rock You   On A string

4 Balloon Bows   Ireland's Call

5 Wintertime in Russia

Sports Day at Presto Strings

All the tracks today are heard at rugby matches

Sports Day Two Anthems

We are half way through our first term . Here is what we did today.

     

1 Shoulder hold.   Putting our violins in rest position we used our left hand on the underneath shoulder to put our violins in play position.

      

2. Balloon Bows to Irelands Call .  We use Down Bow retakes on D for this popular rugby song. we added some flag waving and some tremelo for a bit of added spice .

   

   3. Toreadors March  Another D and A tune . We learned how to read these notes on the stave . The notes are below. Are the notes on lines or spaces?   

     

 4.  Focus on brass . Today we took a closer look at the trumpet. Ms Julie Quinlan director of Waterford City Brass is a former student at our school.. You can read all about the Brass Band and their director  on their website here 

                                                                                               

First Finger Riff

1 Today we placed our first finger  on D string to  make new note E 

E E E E E E E E D D D D D D D D  E E E E E E E E D D D D E_ E_

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1       0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0     11 1 1 1 1 1 1        0 0 0 0   1-1-


2 We also worked on our Wintertime in Russia rhythm

3 TremeloGame

Scary  Violin Monster faces

John Palmer in his Music Shop

Pizzicato Polka Day

Our guest today was Alice Foley on cello. 

Here is what we did today 

1 More work on those bow hands . 

2 Rocket Bows Knuckles pointing to the sky

3 Wintertime in Russia Track 30 

4 Tremelo Game 

5 Guest Spot Pizzicato Polka By Strauss 

We added in an accompaniment  based on open D and G strings 

Find out more about Johann Strauss on this link here 

http://www.classicsforkids.com/shows/showview.asp?ID=9

Touch Bass

Finally the day all the girls had been waiting for when we put our bows on the string.

We also met the double bass , the largest member of the string family. 

It also has GDAE strings but in the opposite order to the violin. EADG 

1 Bow Hold with Pumpkin Straws see last week's post 

2 Bow Hold with Bow  
3Tremolo Bowing and Game
4 No lollipop ladies today and we learned the shoulder hold


  ''Shivery bows'


We launched some Rocket Bows


Rhythm 1 V V  l  l   Wintertime in Russia
                               Ti Ti Ti Ti      Ta  Ta 

Rhythm 2  l l L       Ta Ta Ta-aa

Rocket Bows 321 Lift Off

Rabbits and Snails

Today we practiced holding our violins in rest and play positions . We played a new  pizzicato tune  on A and D 

Foxtrot

D D D_  A A A_

D D D_  A A A_

D D D _ D D D _ 

A A A _ A A D_

**New today**  Carrot pencils and bunny rabbit hands. Using our right hands we practiced making snail shapes and bunny rabbit hands before biting down on our practice pumpkin bows
            Things to remember  Bend your thumb
            Fingers well over the pencil to make those bunny rabbit teeth

New Today  Our First Rhythm Win ter Time In  Rus -Sia

Our leaders today were Julia, Adriana, Kinga and Ciara. 

V  V  l  l  

Leader 

Pack Up Team 

Away We Go: Rest and Play

Away We Go : Rest and Play

Greedy Dinosaurs Ate Everything 

We had a very exciting day at Presentation  Primary School Waterford   as all the 3rd and 4th classes began the Stringschool   programme .    Well done to the classes of Mr Bourke, Ms Keating , Ms Fitzgerald and Ms Nolan .  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 .

Dinner Plates

Violin Floor All ready

Lollipop Lady

Rest Position

We met two other members  bowed string family.  can you remember what they were  (C_ _ _ _ .  and V _ _ _ _ ?

*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)

Finally we played along with some Vivaldi   

Piece No 1 Summer 

*We practiced a bow . 

BRAVO TUTTI !