Today in MusIQ Club!

Hi Everyone! 

We moved rooms this week because of the Book Fair in the Library. With a couple of people away too, that meant we had a cosy class with just three of you!

Level 1A, Lessons 7 & 8 – Andrew

• Lesson 7 was all about more holding note practice with Mr Bach.
• You played through lots of songs with Mr Bach and Miss Melody which helped you to get really good at reading  circle notes and playing the holding notes for the right length of time!
• Then, in Lesson 8 you learnt about playing double notes. This is where you have to play a high note with your right hand, and a low note with your left hand at exactly the same time – 2 notes together!
• Miss Melody then helped you to play even more songs where you followed the circle notes to play high notes, low notes, Middle C’s, holding notes and double notes!
• To finish off you went to the Games Room and you spent some time in the Improvisation Room making up your own music.

Home Assignments for the Week

• Practice saying the musical alphabet everyday. How fast can you say it backwards? G F E D C B A!
• Print out this activity sheet  all about double notes!

Level 3A, Lesson 70 – Jessica

• This week you worked with Mr Scarlatti to review flats.
• You remembered that when a note has a flat sign in front of it, you lower it half a step, and if a note has a flat at the beginning of a bar, any note in the same line or space stays flattened until the next bar line!
• You worked with Jansyn and I to become a note naming detective! You had to name the notes on the Grand Staff in order to find out where the cat was hiding! You did really well with this. Well done!
• You visited the Games Room and Improvisation Room to finish off the lesson!

Home Assignments for the Week

• If you haven’t already done it, then print out this worksheet. It’s all about flats this time!
• Keep improvising and having fun on the piano!

Level 3B, Lesson 79 – Jansyn

• You played through more songs today for hands together written on the Grand Staff. Your hand position is really good, and you are recognising steps and skips on the Grand Staff much better now. Well done!
• You played through more rhythms with the woodpecker too. You seem quite confident at the different note values you have learnt so far in MusIQ Club. Great job!
• You worked with Jessica and I to become a note naming detective! You had to name the notes on the Grand Staff in order to find out where the cat was hiding! You did really well with this. Well done!
• You visited the Games Room and the Improvisation Room to finish off the lesson.

Home Assignments for the Week

• If you haven’t done this yet, then please finish off the note naming section of the review worksheet which we worked on in class. Bring it with you to class next Monday, please.
• Keep practising the C Major scale in your right and left hand. Remember to put your thumb on Middle C like we did in class together, and then your fingers follow the pattern 1 2 3, 1 2 3 4 5.

See you next week!

Bye for now!

Adele

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