Today in MusIQ Club!

Today was the last class for this term! You have all done a great job, and have been sent home with a certificate in recognition of your efforts! Don’t forget to register for the winter term by going to http://www.musiqclub.com or by giving me a call at 405-4071 between 6pm and 9pm!

Lesson 12:

What an exciting class we had today! We met Mr. Joplin again in the Lesson Room and he taught us how to form a 5 finger ant tunnel with our Left Hand! He also showed us the finger numbers on this hand! Afterwards, we spent some time in the practice room with Miss Melody, working on our left hand even more!

After all this hard work, we spent some time playing some games, and then many of you went to the Library and used the computer to learn your very first songs on the piano! Some of you played Row Row Row your Boat, and others played A Tisket A Tasket! WOW! Isn’t it neat that we are finally playing songs that everyone can recognize!

To finish the class, we listened to some music that was composed by Mozart, and many of you danced around the room while listening! Isn’t music great?!? We also had some time for the Improvisation Room! Fantastic job today everyone!

Things To Work On:

1- Keep working on your 5 finger ant tunnels in both hands! You are all doing a great job with this!

2- Keep finding different notes on the piano, don’t forget to use all 5 of your fingers to play them!

3- Print out and complete your weekly activity sheet!

Lesson 19:

In today’s class, Miss Mendelssohn taught us how to read grown up notes. This means, that from now on, we won’t be reading just circle notes. The notes now have a stem that goes up if you have to play it with the right hand, and down if you are going to play it with the left hand.

Notes that are solid black with a stem are worth one count. Notes with a stem and an empty center are worth 2 counts and finally, we have empty notes that have no stem, which are worth 4 counts. There are also five lines on the screen now. The middle line is Middle C and then you build upwards or downwards from there. Each space and each line is worth one white note on the piano keyboard.

Miss Melody helped us practice reading this new kind of notes before we went to the Games Room before finishing off the class with some rhythm clapping and Improvisation! Great work everyone!

Home Assignments & Reminders:

1- Go to this page and print out some songs to practice!

2- Keep saying your musical alphabet, both forwards and backwards! How fast can you go?!?

3- Print out and complete your weekly activity sheet!

4- Don’t forget to keep improvising every day! And keep working on your rhythm clapping!

Lesson 39:

Today, we met with Mrs. Beach to learn about Bar Lines and playing while counting in 4/4 time. You all did an excellent job with this! After our lesson, we went to see Miss Melody in the practice room.

After an excellent practice session, you all headed over to the Games Room to spend some time relaxing and having fun with the different games. We then finished off the class with a little time in the Improvisation Room. Great work everyone!

Things to work on:

1- Keep working on the songs I have offered over the last few weeks.

2- Try writing out different 4/4 melodies and then play them back to yourself. Make sure to place middle C 4 times before starting!

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