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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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Lesson 14: We started off the class with a fantastic rhythm circle, where you each had to clap back a rhythm by hearing it, and by seeing it! Some of them were a little tricky, but you all did a fantastic job! After this, we went to the computers to start our lesson. Today’s class [...]
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Very good work today! Here are some of the things we covered: Level 2A (Eliana) completed Lesson 22 with Mr. Villa-Lobos. Reviewed Middle C position and notes moving by step. Learned some new songs and some new games. Talked about line notes and space notes and the musical alphabet. Practiced rhythms playbacks with the hand [...]
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Rafael Alcolado, HRM MusIQ Club Director has been asked to adjudicate all of the Junior piano classes at the 71st Annual Music Festival in New Glasgow this week. He will be adjudicating junior piano classes from Tuesday, April 28 to Friday, May 1st. View the website
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Hi everyone! We had a great class on friday! PS 2 – We began our class by reviewing our C major scale right hand and left hand separately, and contrary motion. We also reviewed our G Major scale right hand and left hand separately, as well as the F major scale. Remember that the F [...]
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We had a good class today. Level 1A (Josh) 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. Make sure [...]
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Hi everyone! We had a great class on thursday! PS 2 – We began our class by reviewing our C major scale right hand and left hand separately, and contrary motion. We also reviewed our G Major scale right hand and left hand separately, as well as the F major scale. Remember that the F [...]
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Hi everyone! We had a great class on thursday! CMJ 1B – We began our class with Lesson 15 – “More Musical Steps – Musical Alphabet”, with Mr. Joplin. We then went straight on to Lesson 16 – “Stepping Songs” with our new teacher, Miss Mendelssohn. Miss Melody helped us in the practice room, and [...]
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Hi everyone! We had a great class today! CMJ 1B – We began our class with Lesson 14 – Musical Steps – Musical alphabet” with Mr. Joplin. Miss Melody helped us in the practice room, and we played games in the games room. Students who were finished early were able to spend some time in [...]
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Great job this week everyone! We began by reminding ourselves about finger numbers, hand position and how to find Middle C. Then we talked about how to find notes on the Grand Staff. Some of you knew the terms Treble (or G) Clef and Bass (or F) Clef. You also know that each staff is made up [...]
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Hi Everyone! You all did a great job this week! To begin with, we made some high sounds, and some low sounds. I was a little worried that we could have broken the windows because some of you sang high enough to shatter glass! Luckily, we didn’t! So then the whole group did some clap backs. You [...]
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Hi Everyone! Great job yesterday all of you! We had a fantastic class! Level 1A To begin, we talked about Mr. Beethoven. You remembered a lot about his life from last week. Well done! We also discussed the Musical Alphabet. Remember that there are only 7 letters in the Musical Alphabet, A,B,C,D,E,F anf G. Each [...]
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We had a very good class today. It was nice to see you again John-David. We reviewed our C, F and G Major scales in group mode. Then, we learned about pentatonic scales. ‘Penta’ means 5 and ‘tonic’ can mean notes. These are five note scales, that leave our the IV and VII scale degrees. [...]
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Well done today Maple Tree Montessori! Everyone completed Lesson 22 with Mr. Villa-Lobos. We reviewed Middle C position and notes moving by step. We also learned some new songs and some new games. Then, we talked about line notes and space notes and the musical alphabet. Finally, we practiced rhythms playbacks with the hand drum [...]
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Awesome work today guys! Today we practiced playing songs using both hands and all our fingers. We practiced clapping some rhythms and danced the Cha Cha Slide! For Homework: -Practice playing songs that use all your fingers. Make sure to keep your fingers curved! -Compose a song with your hands in middle C position. Get [...]
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We had a great class today! Everyone was present. Level 1A (Shay) 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, overtop of a steady beat. There is a natural rhythm in language, when we talk. We [...]
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Hello Kingswood. Nice to see you again for our first class of the Spring Term. The substitute told me you were very focused and well-behaved. I was very happy to hear that Today we only had 2 students in the class; Julia and Ellen. We reviewed our C, F and G Major scales in group [...]
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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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Level 1: We started off the class by warming up with Pop Goes The Weasel, and then we took some time to identify different notes on a page. Then, we spent some time reviewing rhythm, with quarter notes, half notes, and whole notes, as well as their rests. To make sure we understood very well, [...]
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Level 1A We began today by reviewing some of the things we learnt last week. You remembered that the high bird notes were up to the right on the keyboard, and the low whale notes were down to the left! Fantastic! Then I showed you how to use the group of two black notes to [...]
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