Today in MusIQ Club!

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL:

Today was our last class for the Winter Term! Thankfully, Spring Term starts NEXT WEEK! Make sure to register soon if you haven’t already done so to secure your place! Just go to http://www.musiqclub.com and click on Continuing Students in the lower left hand side of the screen!

Lesson 11:

Today we met with another new teacher. His name was Mr. Scott Joplin, and he was alive about 100 years ago. Isn’t it great that even though his parents had no money, his mother was able to get jobs cleaning houses for the rich so her son could play on their pianos to practice? Someone even agreed to give him lessons for free!

Mr. Joplin taught us how to make a 5-finger ant tunnel with our right hand. He also taught us that each of our fingers has a number, with our thumb being finger #1 and each other finger is a number counting up from 1. Make sure you always have your thumb on Middle C and that each finger is playing a neighbor note!

After this lesson, we spent some time practicing with Miss Melody, and then we went to the Games Room where we had a few new games! Finally, we went to the Library to practice a Folk Tunes for your right hand, before ending the class with a great improvisation session!

Home Assignments For The Week & Reminders:

1- Print out and complete this worksheet!

1- Practice forming your 5-finger ant tunnel, and playing with all of your fingers ever day!

2- Print out some songs from this page so that you can practice playing with your 5-finger ant tunnels and remember your finger numbers!

Lesson 23:

Today Mr. Villa Lobos helped us learn about one more kind of grown up note. This note, is called the whole note. It is worth 4 beats. We now know 3 different kinds of grownup notes. Can you remember them all?

Miss Melody helped us practice this new note in our practice session, and she also got us to play lots of quarter notes and half notes as well! Great work everyone!

To finish off the class, we went to the Games Room, then to the library to play some two-handed folk songs, and finally, we went to the Improvisation Room for some creative fun. Great work everyone!

Home Assignments For The Week & Reminders:

1- Print out and complete your weekly worksheet!

2- Go to this page and print out some of these songs to work on at home!

3- Spent plenty of time improvising, while making sure to always have your hands properly set on the piano!

4- Keep saying your musical alphabet forwards and backwards!!!

Lesson 58:

Today, Mr. Chopin taught us about a technique composers use when they want to have note that are played and held for longer than the duration of one bar. To do this, they use a tie, which is drawn as a line connecting two notes. When you see this in the music, you play the first note, hold for it’s full value and the value of the next note.

After this, we went to see Miss Melody in the practice room, who helped us play a few more pieces with tied notes in them. We also took the time to clap a few different rhythms together that I drew out on the white board.

To finish off the class, we went to the Games Room and then we went to the Improvisation Room as well. Fantastic work everyone!

Home Assignments For The Week & Reminders:

1- Print out a copy of Row, Row, Row to work on!

2- Practice Pop Goes The Weasel, pay close attention to the rests!

3- Write out some rhythms with ties in them! Clap them with a friend!

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