Today in MusIQ Club!

Hi everyone!

We had a great class on wednesday!

CMJ 1B – We began our class with Lesson 11 – “Making a 5 finger ant tunnel” with our new teacher Mr. Scott Joplin.  We met miss melody in the practice room, and spent some time in the games room.  We spent some time learning all about Mr. Joplin, and his life and music.  We also spent some time in the library, practicing our folk tunes, and we worked on our recital pieces.  We spent some time creating our own rhythms, and clapping them for everyone to clap back.  We finished the class in the improvisation room, and then with a musical game.  Students can practice their ant tunnels at home with their finger number tunes. 

CMJ 2A – We began our class with Lesson 52 – “Left Hand F” with Mr. Handel.  We met Miss Melody in the practice room, and we played games in the games room.  We also did Lesson 54 – “Eighth notes”.  We spent some time with the rhythm maker cards reviewing our whole, half, quarter and eighth notes.  Remember, these are called eighth notes because it takes 8 of them to make on whole note.  So it takes 2 of them to equal one quarter note.  We spent some time creating and clapping our own rhythms.  We spent some time in the library working on some folk tunes and on our recital pieces.  We finished the class in the improvisation room, and with a musical game. 

CMJ 3A – We began our class with Lesson 73 – “Playing both hands at the same time” with Ms. Chaminade.  Miss Melody helped us in the practice room, and we played games in the games room.  We spent some time with the rhythm maker cards creating some 6 to 8 beat rhythms using whole, half, dotted half, and quarter notes.  We reviewed our left hand C major scale, and practiced both the right hand and left hand separately.  Students should practice these at home.  We spent some time working on a song “This Old Man” which students can practice at home, and then we practiced our recital pieces.  We finished the class in the improvisation room, and with a musical game. 

CMJ 3B – We began our class today with Lesson 83 – “Interval of a 3rd” with Mr. Debussy.  We spent some time learning about all the other intervals up to an octave, learning how to count from the bottom note to the top.  We spent some time reviewing our C Major scale, right hand, left hand and hands contrary motion, which students can practice at home.  We spent some time in the library, practicing some folk tune’s, as well as our rectial piece.  We finished the class in the improvisaiton room, along with some musical games.

Great work everyone!

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