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Kersti TacreiterSorry to be so late with this this week! And I’ll be brief so it won’t take you so long to read! :)
Our major theory focus this week was on whole notes, half notes and quarter notes. Some of the students in this class now know these notes, as well as dotted half notes (3 beats!) and others who are not yet in CMJ2 are calling them holding notes but still know how long, or how many beats (counts) they last. Composers we focused on this week were Hector Villa Lobos (Brazil, “He has a funny accent!”) and Mozart (“Wow, so many composers come from Europe!”). At the end of class Chris gave us a wonderful performance of one of the Star Wars themes!
For practice at home this week Alex, Alexa, Chris, Sydney, Adriana please:
1. Go to lesson 21 in CMJ1 in “free” mode, and click through the lesson until you get to Ode to Joy (the last piece). Put your right hand in C position (thumb is on middle C and each of the others fingers on their own adjacent notes D, E, F and G) and then play the piece while looking only at the screen! If you think you have it memorized, play it with your eyes closed!
2. Alex and Chris in CMJ2 and others in CMJ1 go the the library and click on the computer and pick out a new piece (folk tune, two hands if you are in CMJ1) that you might want to play for the recital at the end of this session. Practice it if you have time, and we’ll do that in class as well.
3. Chris and Alex, here is a fun musical math sheet regarding whole, half and quarter notes. The rest of you may try this as well, but you have not done this in your lessons yet so if it seems tricky you can bring it to class on Monday and we’ll do it together.
4. Andrew and Adam, you did a fabulous job identifying notes on the keyboard when you were playing with the bird and the note catcher. Please spend some more time playing this game! Also, go to the improv room and with your right thumb on middle C and your other fingers on the notes D, E, F and G practice playing one note and one finger at a time. In other words, keep changing which fingers you are playing, but all the fingers should be resting on the keys still even when you are not using them.
Enjoy the warm weather this weekend, and see you on Monday!
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