More Bow and Twinkle properly 7

Programme today

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Both 4th classes did a lot of work on this today

Rhythm only   Snowflake (Down) and floating balloon (up) bows on the long notes.

Longer bows need to be slower

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Nice Bow Hand

  Today was  a very exciting day as  three classes moved on to our new tune , Twinkle Twinkle. 3rd class experimented with a new river.
We had lots of fun with the tremelo game
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_     Roisin / Teacher 
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 _
G G  F# F# E  E   D _ 

Revision Toreadors  March

Special effects: Rock and Roll bows  Roll your bow over all four strings

Ms Moran's class

New rhythm  Bow River  Bow(Long)  and Hic-cup  bows
Jane Hot Cross Buns  pizzicato 

Scales and String Crossing 6

Yes- That is sunshine making a rare appearance in the classroom today .

Today we started with a string crossing exercise.

Scale on A and Scale on D (4th class)

Scale on D (3rd Class)

Rhythm 1  Winter time in Russia 2 tempos Andante and Presto

Glissandos

4th class Harmony Notes Chords 

Opposite sides 5

New Seating Plan

We tried a new classroom arrangement today. It worked really well. We had two halves of the class facing each other. It made it easier to divide the tasks into two different groups. Here is tyoday's programme

1 Open string rhythm  1   (new tem  po) Presto ( very quick) and Andante (walking pace)

2 Foxtrot

2 First Finger riff

3 Second finger down Hot Cross Buns

4 Scale  all 3 fingers

5 New : Things to Do with your bow In a glissando. The word comes from the French word glisser to slide

Glissando

Dynamics    

Dynamics is a word used to describe the different ways of playing the notes

soft (piano   or p ) and loud (forte f)

4th class

Sharks and Semitones 4

     Best Bow Hands

Programme today

4th class
Blues
Scale on D
Jaws  Semitone Theme





Lyrics Blues
Kil rush Road is Straight and Long D E D E G G G _s x4


ChordG ______________________________________
x2
Hear the cars roar A B A B D E D E
D_______________________________
Make’s you’re ears sore


C7________________________________
Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep z Honk z G G G G G z D z

Can you do better . Compose your own verse . Best one added to our lyrics



3rd class

Inside bow gripWatch Out Sharks Out
"1  beat, 2 beats and 4 beat notes
Scale

1 beat



2 beats



4 beats