Posted on October 28, 2008 by Alice Hansen
Today was a great class! Level 1A (Parker, Lenka and Mercedes): Completed Lesson 6. Discussed Mr. Bach’s life. Can you remember what country he is from? (Germany.) What instruments did he play? (the piano, violin and organ.) Anything else? (22 children, wears a funny wig, composed music for the church.) Practiced songs with holding notes. [...]
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Posted on October 28, 2008 by Alice Hansen
We had a very good class today. Level 1A (Asia, Karen, Luke H., and Jasmine): Completed Lesson 6. Discussed Mr. Bach’s life. Can you remember what country he is from? (Germany.) What instruments did he play? (the piano, violin and organ.) Anything else? (22 children, wears a funny wig, composed music for the church.) Practiced [...]
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Posted on October 28, 2008 by Rémi Lefebvre
Levels 1 & 2: Today’s class was spent doing stuff as a group! We opened up the Concert Master program, and then spent some time learning the C Major scale with our right hand. After you all became comfortable with this, we played it with a metronome set at 60 beats per minute. (60bpm) This [...]
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Posted on October 28, 2008 by Rémi Lefebvre
Lesson 7: Mr. Bach spent today’s lesson, helping us learn more about holding notes, and made sure we feel comfortable playing all the different notes on the keyboard, while holding them for different amounts of time. After this lesson, we went to the Practice Room, where we all worked with Miss Melody to refine our [...]
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Posted on October 28, 2008 by Rémi Lefebvre
Lesson 7: Mr. Bach spent today’s lesson, helping us learn more about holding notes, and made sure we feel comfortable playing all the different notes on the keyboard, while holding them for different amounts of time. After this lesson, we went to the Practice Room, where we all worked with Miss Melody to refine our [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2008 by Alice Hansen
Great class today! Level 1A (Harry and Stuart): Completed Lesson 5 with Mr. Beethoven. Learned more about Rhythms and reading ‘circle notes’. Played songs and rhythm exercises on my hand-drum. Practiced finding Middle C, High C and Low C. Improvised and recorded some songs. Level 1B (Thomas, Justin and Sarah) Completed Lesson 21. Discussed Mr. [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2008 by Rémi Lefebvre
Levels 1 & 2: Today’s class was spent doing stuff as a group! We opened up the Concert Master program, and then spent some time learning the C Major scale with our right hand. After you all became comfortable with this, we played it with a metronome set at 60 beats per minute. (60bpm) This [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2008 by Alice Hansen
We had a good class today. Level 1A (Alexandra, Ethan and Ben) Completed Lesson 6. Discussed Mr. Bach’s life. Can you remember what country he is from? (Germany.) What instruments did he play? (the piano, violin and organ.) Anything else? (22 children, wears a funny wig, composed music for the church.) Practiced songs with holding [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2008 by Rémi Lefebvre
Lessons 5 & 6: Today we met with Mr. Beethoven for one last time. He helped us review everything we have learned so far in MusIQ Club. He reviewed high bird notes and low whale notes, then he made sure we still remember everything about Middle C and circle notes as well! Let’s not forget [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2008 by Melisa Szeto
In today’s class, we went over what he had learned in the past 3 weeks in MusIQ Club. We went over what was unique about the pattern of the keyboards (the set of 2 black keys then 3 black keys and so on repeated.) We reviewed, “Group of Two, Down to C” meaning that whenever you [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2008 by Kate Quinn
Great class today, everyone! I think we all had a lot of fun. We began by playing a real live version of Bongo Boy – and everyone did SUCH a good job! Good work. We did regular rhythms, without counting; we did word rhythms, like “Swim, Swim, Little Fish”; we did number rhythms, counting phrases [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2008 by Laura Johnson
Hey there MusIQ Club class! We are in our 3nd Session. Michael, Emoddi are in Piano Suite and CMJ 3 and progressing nicely. Working on playing with both hands. Sophia and Autumn are finished with CMJ 1 and starting CMJ 2. Keep up the good work. Everyone is learning Chopsticks. Keep learning about holding notes, reviewing the musicalalphabet, counting [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2008 by Laura Johnson
Hello parents and students. We are in our 2nd week of Session 3. I hope you are all practicing and enjoying playing. Our new students are Maranda, Chase and Andrew. Avonlea and Jaden are returning. Jaden you are doing very well finishing CMJ 1 and starting CMJ 2. Avonlea is doing super and starting CMJ 3 [...]
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Posted on October 24, 2008 by Christa Colpitts
Good effort toward the Old Gray Goose everyone-Jessica—we need to look at your fingering numbers and reading on the treble clef. Emma, Emerson & Jack—try to play the song with your left hand. We will continue with note reading next week ! Good Work !! Christa
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Posted on October 24, 2008 by Christa Colpitts
This week we worked on our rhythm through music games. Next week we will continue with our Children’s Music Journey programme! See you next week! Christa
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Posted on October 24, 2008 by Laura Johnson
Brandon: Wow, you are now learning to play with the left hand. Take it slow and just keep thinking about the notes in the treble and bass clefs. Remember to keep your fingers relaxed and curved and walk on the keys one at a time. Your new piece to work on in Lavendar’s Blue. Keep [...]
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Posted on October 24, 2008 by Laura Johnson
Hello students! Great Job! We are have finished CMJ 1. Congratulations Mikayla, Riccia . We are learning to play with 2 hands sharing middle C. Please work on this remembering your notes on each side. You are all doing great. Practice the musical alphabet. A B C D E F G. ASSIGNMENT: Keep practicing each day for [...]
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Posted on October 24, 2008 by Alice Hansen
Great work today! We learned many new and interesting thins. Here’s what we covered: Completed Lesson 5 with Mr. Beethoven. Learned more about Rhythms and reading ‘circle notes’. Played songs and rhythm exercises on my hand-drum. Practiced finding Middle C, High C and Low C. Improvised and recorded some songs. At the end of class [...]
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Posted on October 23, 2008 by Alice Hansen
We had a very fun class today. I changed around the seating plan so that you could work better with your partners. Lucie and Ben are sitting together now. Patrick is on his own (with me) and Liam is sitting with Jake. Here’s what what we covered: Completed Lesson 6 with Mr. Bach. Discussed Mr. [...]
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Posted on October 23, 2008 by Alice Hansen
Great work Hani, Elyssa, Avery, Ellen and Julia. Here is a summary of what we covered today: C major scales – LH and RH ascending. Old Grey Goose. Keeping 4 beats per bar. New Song: Pop Goes the Weasel. For both hands. Reviewed note naming on the Grand Staff. Discussed Musical Rests. Played a game [...]
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