Hi Everyone!
Another great lesson yesterday and we got a lot done!
Piano Suite Level 2 – Alec and Ali
We began by warming up our fingers with some scale and technique practice; we looked at C, G and F major, and how to play legato and staccato.
Then, in Piano Player you continued to work on ‘Let It Be’ and ‘Happy [...]
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Level 2:
We started off the class in a circle, and spent some time talking about dynamics. Dynamics are markings in music that tell us what level of “loudness” is needed for a particular piece, or section of music. Piano(P) means soft, Forte (F) means loud. Mezzo Forte (MF) is medium loud, Mezzo Piano (MP) is [...]
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Hi Everyone!
We had a lovely class yesterday, and you worked very hard on your musical theory! Great job!
Whole Group
We began the lesson by working together to review the letter names on the Grand Staff. You also told me all about the two clefs and how the lines and spaces work like a ladder, showing notes moving [...]
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Lessons 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.
Miss Mendelssohn [...]
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Hi Everyone!
What a snowy start to the day yesterday! But inside our warm and cosy room we had a great lesson!
Lesson 11 (Review) – Parker, Carter, Christopher, Sydney and Bella
We began by playing some games together to help us remember our Musical Alphabet! I was very impressed with how quickly you organized the letters into the correct order! [...]
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The class started off with some review concerning introductory material about Hi/Low notes and middle C, then we talked about a very famous piece we heard in our lesson written by Beethoven, called Für Elise (For Elise). We tried playing different rhythms and copied patterns given to us, and once again discussed the basic rhythms used [...]
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We were introduced today to a woman composer named Miss Mendelssohn. We talked about and played some basic 4 & 3 beat rhythms, and discussed how most music we listen to is based on these time signatures.
Level 1A
Mr. Beethoven showed us some short/long rhythms
Practice Room with Miss Melody
Games Room – Bongo Boy
Circle notes with Mr. [...]
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Levels 3 & 4:
You started off the class by going over your individual pieces for a few minutes to get your hands nice and limber for the rest of class!
We then spent some time reviewing our scales, and talking about the accidentals (sharps or flats) in each one. C major has none, G major has [...]
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Lesson 28:
Today, Mr. Dvorak helped us review our high notes and low notes, and then our holding notes as well! After we spent some time reviewing the different levels of high and low notes, we learnt that we can be very exact with our note writing and place them all on lines or spaces. This [...]
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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 did [...]
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We started off today’s class by sitting in a circle and going over our musical alphabet again today. After we refreshed our memories that the musical alphabet is A-B-C-D-E-F-G, we spread out 7 letter cards on the floor to help us name the letters going both forwards AND backwards! Wow! Tricky stuff, but you all [...]
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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 did [...]
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Hello Everybody!
We had a busy and productive lesson today, where everyone did really well!
Level 1B, Lessons 17 & 18 – Liam
At the computers you met up with Miss Fanny Mendelsshon again. This week she helped you to play even more songs using both hands.
You are now using circle notes on lines and spaces which move in a [...]
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Hello Everybody!
We began today’s lesson by reminding ourselves about the Musical Alphabet. We played some games with my letter cards, and you were fantastic at getting into the correct order, both forwards and backwards! Brilliant teamwork!
Level 1A, Lessons 5 & 6 - Camryn and Emma
In lesson 5 you worked with Mr Beethoven to review everything you’ve [...]
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Hi Everyone!
It was lovely to see you all this morning. We had a good lesson today! We learned a lot, and had fun too!
Lesson 11 (Review) – Ethan, Bailey, Carter, Brenna, Kalea, Austin, Brianna and Bryce
We began by trying to remember some facts about our new teacher, Mr Joplin. You told me that he was famous for playing and composing Ragtime [...]
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Beginner Level 1B
Today Rebecca and Colby did lesson 17 and 18 with Mar, or at least the highlights from these two lessons, continuing on further with reading line and space notes. This is getting them ready for reading on the Grand Staff, and it is pretty focused work! Great job you two!
This Week @ Home
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We had a new student join us today, another girl named Paige, who caught up very quickly! This was the last week to join our class, as it would be difficult to catch up on more than 2 weeks’ of material at this point.
Level 1A
Jeremiah did some nice work today in Lesson 4 with Mr. [...]
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Level 1A
Ethan and Sarah did some nice work today in Lesson 4 with Mr. Beethoven. They learned to read circle notes in place of the pictures of birds and whales we have been using up to now, and tapped back some rhythms on Middle C as they heard them. This will take some getting used [...]
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Hello Everybody!
It was lovely to see everyone again today. We had quite a noisy lesson, but we still managed to get a lot done!
Level 1B, Lesson 18 & 19 – Callum, Amelia, Hayley, Scott and Weston
This week in Lesson 18, Miss Mendelssohn helped you to play even more songs using circle notes on lines and spaces which move [...]
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Hello Everybody!
Well done all of you for a great lesson today!
Level 1A, Lesson 5 & 6 – Madeline, Julia and Julian
Thanks so much for bringing in your homework, today! Fantastic work!
In lesson 5 you worked with Mr Beethoven to review everything you’ve learnt so far in MusIQ Club!
Then, in Lesson 6 you met a new teacher, called [...]
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