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 !