Posted on January 27, 2009 by Alice Hansen
Well done today! I was glad to see everyone having so much fun with their lessons. Here is what we covered for each level: Level 1A (Bethany and Marise) 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, [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by Catherine Nichols
Hi everyone! We had a great class today! CMJ 1A – We began our class today by clapping some 4 beat rhythms. We took turns clapping rhythms for everyone, and imitating the rhythms. We put phrases to the rhythms as well. We reviewed where the white and black keys were as well as where the [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by Catherine Nichols
Hi everyone! We had a great class today! CMJ 1A – We began our class today by clapping some 4 beat rhythms. We took turns clapping rhythms for everyone, and imitating the rhythms. We put phrases to the rhythms as well. We reviewed where the white and black keys were as well as where the [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by Catherine Nichols
Hi Everyone! We had a great class today! There was alot of work to do and everyone did really well! CMJ 1A – We began our class today by talkinga bout beat. We clapped some rhythms, and took turns leading the rhythms. We reviewed where the white and black keys were, as well as the [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by Catherine Nichols
Hi everyone! We had a great class yesterday! PS 1 – We began our class by reviewing our finger numbers, hand position, and the musical alphabet forwards and backwards. We took some time to review our finger number tune from last week “Mary Had a Little Lamb”. We learned about the Grand Staff, and everything [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by Catherine Nichols
Hi Everyone! We had a great class yesterday! CMJ 1A – We began our class by reviewing hi and low notes and thinking of some sounds in our environment that make hi and low sounds. We took some time to identify the black notes and white notes on the keyboard, and each took turns finding [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by Catherine Nichols
Hi Everyone! We had a great class yesterday! Everyone worked really hard! CMJ 1A – We began our class today by reviewing our hi notes and our low notes. We talked about things that make hi sounds and low sounds in our environment. We talked about the keyboards black notes and white notes and where [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by Rémi Lefebvre
Level 1: We started off today’s class by learning all about the Grand Staff… The Treble Clef, the Bass Clef, we also learnt all about the different types of notes we find on the staff as well! Taking a quick moment to review the things we learnt last week, such as hand and body posture, [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by Rémi Lefebvre
Lesson 3 & 4: To start off the class, we met up with Mr. Beethoven, who showed us all about short and long rhythms! You all did a fantastic job playing back the different rhythms using Middle C on the piano! However, rhythm is a very important part of the music you play, so we [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by Rémi Lefebvre
Lessons 3 & 4: To start off the class, we met up with Mr. Beethoven, who showed us all about short and long rhythms! You all did a fantastic job playing back the different rhythms using Middle C on the piano! However, rhythm is a very important part of the music you play, so we [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by Catherine Nichols
Hi Everyone! Great work on friday! Everyone worked really hard! PS 1 – We began our class by reviewing our finger numbers, hand position and musical alphabet forwards and backwards. We also reviewed our finger number tune “Mary Had a Little Lamb” from last week and everyone did very well! We were introduced to the [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by Alice Hansen
Great work J. W.! We learned many new and interesting things today. Level 1B (Harry, Eliana and Stuart) completed lesson 13 with Mr. Joplin. You learned how to play with five-finger ant tunnels. Keep your wrist up and your fingers curved. Place your thumb on middle C. Each finger has a number. Thumbs are 1, [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by Alice Hansen
Today was a good class. I was happy to meet Madison Hawley for her first MusIQ Club class this year. Welcome! Level 1A (Maddie, Ethan A. and Noah) completed lesson 3 of the software today. You learned about rhythm, which was very exciting! Rhythm is when there are long sounds and short sounds in music, [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by Catherine Nichols
Hi Everyone! We had a great first class! It was so nice to see some old faces as well as some new ones! CMJ 1A – We began our class by learning all about hi notes and low notes. Remember that hi notes are on the right side of the keyboard, and low notes are [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by Rémi Lefebvre
Lesson 2: Today we went over everything we learnt last week, and then we took the time to find our way around the piano keyboards. We found all the groups of 2 black notes, as well as the groups of 3 black notes. After that, we learnt how to find all the Cs on the [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by Rémi Lefebvre
Lesson 1: Today you met Mr. Beethoven and learned all about the piano, and how it has “high bird” notes (the keys on the right) and “low whale” notes (the keys on the left). After this, you went to meet a new friend, Miss Melody, in the practice room. She helped us practice all the [...]
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Posted on January 24, 2009 by Rémi Lefebvre
Lesson 1: Nice to meet you today! You started off by learning all about the piano, how it works, and where it came from! You then learnt how to properly sit at the piano and place our hands on the keyboard! Following this introduction, we discussed our hands, and how each finger is represented by [...]
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Posted on January 24, 2009 by Rémi Lefebvre
Lesson 15 & 16: What a busy lesson we had today! We met with Mr. Joplin again, to learn more about the musical alphabet as well as musical steps. Everyone did such a great job with this lesson that we skipped the practice room and went right on to meet our new teacher, Miss Mendelssohn. [...]
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Posted on January 24, 2009 by Rémi Lefebvre
Lesson 9 & 10: Today we did two lessons with Mr. Bach! We started off by learning how to play several notes going up, or going down. We call this playing high notes and then higher notes as well as low and then lower notes! The trickiest part is that you always have to make [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2009 by Alice Hansen
Well done today J. W. Macleod. It was nice to see you again John-David and Miguel! Today we practiced Old MacDonald and Let it Be. Miguel practiced Daydream Believer. Try playing with a metronome holding all the notes for their correct values. Watch out especially for dotted half notes and ties. Also, watch out for [...]
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