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Hi everyone! We had a fantastic session, and it was great to welcome a new member to our class too! Each of you completed 2 lessons today as well! Well done all of you! Level 1A We began by spending a moment to talk about Mr. Beethoven and his life and times. You remembered a lot of [...]
Filed under: Duc d'Anville Elementary | Leave a Comment »
We had a good class today, although it was a bit noisy at times. All were present. Level 1A (Shay) completed lesson 4 with Mr. Beethoven. We continued with reading music notes above middle C and below middle C. Do you remember how to find middle C? Do you remember how it is written on [...]
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We had a great class today. Julia brought Patricia as her guest. Great to see you again Patricia! Here are some of the things we accomplished: Warmed-up our C, F and G Major scales Learned more about Pentatonic scales. Completed the activity: ‘Compose your own C-Pentatonic Melody’. Practiced our solo pieces: The Baseball Game and [...]
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We had another great class this week, and I was glad to have everyone back. William did a great job catching up! Today for a special treat I brought in my djembe drum, from Africa, and we talked about what it was made of and how to play it, did some rhythmic playbacks, and everyone [...]
Filed under: Mapleview Heights Elementary | Tagged: Mapleview, Week 4 | Leave a Comment »
We started off our class today by listening to a few different Mozart Piano Sonatas! You all said you enjoyed the music. Don’t forget, that you are always allowed to have an opinion on music you are listening too, but you have to be able to back it up and explain it! We spent some [...]
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Level 2: In today’s class, we learnt about triads, and how they can be built upon every note in any given scale. As an example, we examined C Major, and built a triad on each note of the scale. The first one was C-E-G, the second one was D-F-A, the third was E-G-B and so [...]
Filed under: St. Margaret's Bay Elementary | Tagged: scales, tecnique, triads | Leave a Comment »
Hi Everyone! It was nice to see you all again today! We began by warming up with some scale practise. You played C Major, ascending and descending (right and left hand) and then C contrary motion, with both thumbs beginning on Middle C. Your thumb tucks are really improving! Try now to speed the scale [...]
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Hi everyone! We had a great class today! CMJ 1B – We began our class with Lesson 15 – “More Musical Steps – Musical Alphabet” with Mr. Joplin. We then went straight into Lesson 16 – “Stepping Songs” with our new teacher Miss Mendelssohn. Miss Melody helped us in the practice room, and we played [...]
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Hi there all of you! Great job today! To start off the lesson, we went into Theory Thinker and practised reading and naming notes written on the Bass Clef. Then we played some tunes using our left hands. Good job! Next, we worked together on our C Major scale. We tried our thumb tucks over and over until [...]
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Week 3 today, and we had a very busy day. We have four students at 3 different levels! The boys learned about whole notes, half notes and quarter notes and how much each one is worth. They also reviewed the names of the notes on the treble clef and played a game to help them [...]
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Hi there! It was great to see you again this week! We began by practising some piano technique. Remember the finger pattern for the C Major scale is 1,2,3,1,2,3,4,5. I showed you how to practise your thumb tucks. Remember not to let your elbow or shoulder come up as you tuck the thumb under your fingers. [...]
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Lesson 17: Today was all about playing and singing songs! We started off the class by meeting with Miss Mendelssohn and doing two different lessons on playing and singing songs such as Mary Had A Little Lamb. These lessons were a lot of work, so we went to see Miss Melody in the practice room [...]
Filed under: St. Margaret's Bay Elementary | Tagged: activity sheet, sheet music | Leave a Comment »
Hi Everyone! We were in a cosy room this week, which was fun, and we had a couple of people missing, but you all did a great job! To begin with, we used the keyboards to remind ourselves of some of the things we’ve learnt so far. Then we did some clap backs. You were fantastic [...]
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Lesson 17: Today was all about playing and singing songs! We started off the class by meeting with Miss Mendelssohn and doing two different lessons on playing and singing songs such as Mary Had A Little Lamb. These lessons were a lot of work, so we went to see Miss Melody in the practice room [...]
Filed under: Hammonds Plains Consolidated Elementary | Tagged: activity sheet, sheet music | Leave a Comment »
We had a very good class today. Level 1A (Lenka) completed Lesson 10 with Mr. Bach. Learned new songs with notes moving ‘towards middle C’. Reviewed medium high and medium low notes, and very high and very low notes. Played rhythm playbacks and pitch identification games. Improvised and recorded some tunes. Level 1B (Amara, and [...]
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Very well done today. All were present, except for Asia. Hope to see you back next week Asia Level 1B (Marise) completed lesson 13 with Mr. Joplin. Learned how to play with five-finger ant tunnels. Practiced keeping our wrists up and fingers curved. Learned how to place your thumb on middle C with each finger [...]
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Hi everyone! We had a great class today! CMJ 1B – We began our class with Lesson 15 – “More Musical Steps – Musical Alphabet” with Mr. Joplin. We then went straight into Lesson 16 – “Stepping Songs” with our new teacher Miss Mendelssohn. Miss Melody helped us in the practice room, and we played games [...]
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Hi everyone! We had a great class yesterday! CMJ 2B – We began our class with Lesson 42 – “Piano and Forte” with Mr. Tchaikovsky. Miss Melody helped us in the practice room, and we played games in the games room. We spent some time reviewing our bass clef notes, C, B, A and our [...]
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Hi everyone! We had a great class yesterday! CMJ 2A – We began our class with an introduction to the Grand Staff. Rememeber, the grand staff is made up of 2 staves, the treble and the bass, and on each staff there are 5 lines and 4 spaces. We then did Lesson 32 – “The [...]
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Hi everyone! We had a great class on wednesday! CMJ 1A – We began our class with Lesson 3 – “Short/Long Rhythms” with Mr. Beethoven. Miss Melody helped us in the practice room, and we played games in the games room. We spent some time reviewing what we had learned about Mr. Beethoven, and his [...]
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