Posted on March 30, 2012 by acmullen
Great class today boys and girls! Today we spent most of the class preparing for our class recital! It will take place on Tuesday April 3rd at 2:45pm. Everyone is welcome to attend! Please do not arrive early as we will be busy preparing for our performances! Level 1A Today in class we spent time [...]
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Posted on March 27, 2012 by acmullen
Awesome job today boys! Today in class we wrote our theory test! You did awesomely! We selected new pieces to learn and practiced playing our songs for our recital which will be next week at 4:30! All parents and guests are welcome to attend! For Homework: -Practice your C major and G major scales -Practice [...]
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Posted on March 27, 2012 by acmullen
Awesome job today boys and girls! Next week on April 2nd at 3:30pm we will be having a short recital! All parents and guests are welcome to attend! Please do not arrive early as we will be using this time to prepare for our performances. Level 1A Today in class we spent most of our [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2012 by acmullen
Attention parents! We will be having a very short informal recital on April 13th at 4:00pm. I understand that the school locks its doors and you are unable to enter the building but we will make sure to check the front doors (by the office) to let in any guests for our recital on that [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2012 by acmullen
Great job today boys and girls! Today we spent most of the class preparing for our recital. Unfortunately there will be a two week break before our next and final class on April 13th. This is when our recital will take place at 12:15! All parents and guests are welcome to attend, please do not [...]
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Posted on March 21, 2012 by acmullen
Awesome job today boys and girls! Today we began class by selecting and practicing pieces for our recital! We will be having our recital on Tuesday April 3rd at 2:45pm and everyone will be playing a song. Level 1A: Today in class you completed Lesson 13 with Mr. Beethoven. You practiced playing songs stepping [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2012 by acmullen
Good job today boys! Today we began class by naming notes on the grand staff. We practiced our G major and C major scales with both hands. Next we warmed up by practicing Here we go in a row. Then we began rehearsing for the recital. Hugh will play When the Saints go Marching in, [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2012 by acmullen
Great class today boys and girls! Level 1A: Today in class you completed Lesson 14 with Mr. Joplin. We practiced playing songs with notes stepping away from and back to middle C. We also practiced playing songs using each of our fingers and began selecting songs to play for our end of term recital! Great [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2012 by acmullen
Awesome work today boys! Today we began class by practicing our G major and C major scales, good work! We warmed up our fingers by practicing Here We Go In A Row several times until we could play it smoothly. Then we started working on some more challenging pieces. Luca is playing Twinkle Twinkle Little [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2012 by acmullen
Great class today everyone! Level 1A Today in class you completed Lesson 10 with Mr. Bach. You practiced playing patterns of notes getting higher and higher and lower and lower. You practiced playing songs with holding notes and double notes as well as doing some rhythm tapping. In the games room we played the Princess [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2012 by acmullen
Awesome work today guys Today in class we began by placing notes on the treble staff. You guys both have a good handle on this and we will begin to learn the bass staff next week. We learned how to play our C major scale today! Remember the fingering is tricky, 12312345 on the way [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2012 by acmullen
Level 1B (Mia, Lola, Avery, Brooke) Awesome job today boys and girls! Today in class we completed Lesson 18!! You practiced playing songs using all of your fingers. Remember that it is important to use your ant tunnel hand positions at all times in order to strengthen those fingers. Make sure that you press each [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2012 by acmullen
Level 1A Today we completed Lesson 6 and 7 with Mr. Bach. We learned about holding notes, which are notes that get held down for two, three and four counts. We practiced playing songs with low notes, high notes, middle C and holding notes as well. We also practiced some rhythm tapping. For [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2012 by acmullen
What a fun class! Today we started off by singing the Chuga Chuga Song and by starting to learn our new song Never Smile at a Crocodile, great job! We reviewed how to play a holding note for two, three and four counts and practiced clapping back some four count rhythms. Remember to listen carefully [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2012 by acmullen
Awesome job today boys! Today in class we practiced naming notes on the grand staff. We practiced our C major scale and learned a new scale today, the G major scale! Our G major scale has an F# in it instead of an F. You guys did great with it! We practiced playing Let it [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2012 by acmullen
Great class today boys and girls! Today we started off class by talking about some of our teachers on the computer. We talked about Mr. Beethoven, Miss Mendelssohn and Mr. Mozart, we learned some interesting facts about these famous composers!! Level 1A Today we spent some time talking about rhythms and doing some [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2012 by acmullen
What a busy class today boys! We began class by reviewing the 3/4 time signature. We know that a 3/4 time signature has 3 beats per bar. We practiced using a 3/4 time signature by completing a worksheet in class. We also reviewed sharps and flats today. We learned that a sharp is the black [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2012 by acmullen
Level 1A Awesome work today ladies! Today you completed Lesson 6 with your new teacher Mr. Bach! You practiced playing songs with high notes, low notes and middle C. You also learned a new kind of note today called holding notes. Holding notes are notes that are played for 2 or more counts. You practiced [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2012 by acmullen
Welcome to our MusIQ Club Blog! What a great first class we had today! It was so nice to meet all of you and great to see some familiar faces as well Our blog will be organized by student level with a brief summary of what was covered in the class and some homework assignments [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2012 by acmullen
Welcome back boys! Today in class we started out reviewing the rules and expectations for the class. This term will involve a bit more theory so it is important to come to class ready to concentrate all the way through so that we have time for some games at the end of class. We began [...]
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