Presto Strings

Monday, 25 November 2013

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

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

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

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

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

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

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

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

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

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

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