New Term Starts with Triplets

Kiilfenora Ceili Daancer     

New rhythm Hop-ping and Skip-ing triplets   Six tiptoe beats = 6/8  Track 5 

First Finger riff  first on D 

New note B   First finger on A 

 New Shark  Lyrics   Watcjh Out Sharks Out !

Violin High 5  3 down (Ms Bourke) 

Welcoming Mrs Morgan today with her 3rd class. 

Great to hear several students got violins for Christmas. Ask for a copy of the backing tracks so you can repeat the exercises at home. 

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