Thanks for all your efforts Emerson, Jessica, Jack & Emma! You have all shown improvement and have almost completed level 1. You did a great job in playing Jolly Old Saint Nicholas in such a short time! And you were able to show everyone that your Row, Row was in good shape. Also, I hope [...]
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A big thank you to everyone! You all sang ‘Santa Claus is coming…’ nicely, your musical alphabet, and played with the beat well! And we had fun playing a few music games! I hope you will continue to listen carefully to music, to its beat and rhythm, and melody. Also, I hope you can continue [...]
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The Mexican Clapping song sure got put through its paces as you all gave your best efforts in ensemble playing. Also, we need to always be careful to look at the FULL count of the rhythm you are playing.
Parents or Guardians—If you would be able to, as I mentioned after class last Wednesday, come 15 [...]
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Good work all—you have some surprises coming next week! Get your fingers ready!
Parents or Guardians—If you would be able to, as I mentioned after class last Wednesday, come 15 minutes early, we will have a mini-show for you !
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Intervals! Why are they important? (I’ll ask you next week, be ready!!) Bring one of your favourite songs and we can talk about its intervals !.
The beat vs. the rhythm.—be ready to keep a steady beat. We will work on the Mexican Clapping Song and Row, Row also next week.
Homework–When you listen to any [...]
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Good Musical Alphabet review but be sure to try to sing it ‘backwards’—C-B-A-G-F-E-D-C ! For a game, try to think of an object or name that begins with the same letter of the musical alphabet when you practice. Melina, Selena, Jade –don’t forget the beat—(heartbeat) will be different than the rhythm of the song (remember [...]
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Good work with Concertmaster! We got to experiment with different kinds of keyboard voices as we practiced our C scale—Keep working on “Row, Row, Row” as you will see it again! Next week, make a point of being able to read your notes quickly from our landmarks G in the treble clef and F in [...]
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Why to play the pipe organ, guys! We got to listen and appreciate what majestic sounds the pipe organ makes and discussed what our teacher Mr. Bach did. We enjoyed his Toccata in D minor. We practiced holding notes, and rhythm sentences, and all advanced students reviewed note lengths and were reminded of the concepts [...]
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Today we row, row, rowed all the way through that song!! Good work and keep listening to the beat.
We also listened to a different version of Twinkle, Twinkle !!
If you hear a song on the radio or your mp3 player, do 2 things:
1) clap or tap the BEAT along with the song
2) then, [...]
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Good work today! ! Melina, Selena, Keegan, and Jade did some focus work on identifying and naming notes on the keyboard. Don’t give up and sit up straight everyone!
The rest of you did great work with Mr. Bach, your new teacher! Remember—how do we find middle C? Group of 2 black keys down to C [...]
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We missed you today Jessica ! For Emma, Emerson and Jack, Good work on your C scale in the right hand (1-2-3 tuck thumb under 1-2-3-4-5 ). For a bit more challenge, try the Left hand, (even on your kitchen table) 5-4-3-2-1-crossover 3-2-1). Let’s remember what our note values are and now what the REST [...]
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Well, we covered a lot of territory today! Melina, Selena, Keegan, Michaela and Jade—great work on your “music math”—it all is starting to add up! For all the rest of you, you did good work on rhythm with Mr. Beethoven and Miss Melody.
Keep it up!
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Good effort toward the Old Gray Goose everyone-Jessica—we need to look at your fingering numbers and reading on the treble clef. Emma, Emerson & Jack—try to play the song with your left hand. We will continue with note reading next week ! Good Work !!
Christa
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This week we worked on our rhythm through music games. Next week we will continue with our Children’s Music Journey programme! See you next week!
Christa
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Way to play to the regaee beat, guys! We talked about rhythm—while listening to clapping, snapping, clapping 1-2-3-4 and other rhythms. While playing middle C, we all played together following the beat of a song—very good job, it wasn’t easy !
To practice—Listen to music when it is around you—can you hear the high notes and [...]
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Way to play to the regaee beat, guys! Today we looked at note values and reading notes on the treble and grand staffs. And Old Grey Goose (1) went well—remember, it’s not a race to finish the song first! We played the song all together, and did some of our own free improvising also, and [...]
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Good work guys for making music with rhythm—while listening to clapping, snapping, clapping 1-2-3-4 and other rhythms. While playing middle C, we all played together following the beat of a song—very good job, it wasn’t easy !
To practice—Listen to music when it is around you—can you hear the high notes and the low notes? Can [...]
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Good work guys for making music together at the beginning of the lesson! We talked about rhythm—while listening to clapping, snapping, clapping 1-2-3-4 and other rhythms. While playing middle C, we all played together following the beat of a song—very good job, it wasn’t easy !
To practice—Listen to music when it is around you—can you [...]
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Today we started off the class by listening to high and low sound in some real music (remember—it was jazz!!) We then did our respective lessons with many of you learning about middle C by meeting M. Beethoven and Miss Melody again. We worked on composing our own music today.
To practice–Try to sing [...]
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Today we practiced fingerings of 1-5 on the right hand all together on our keyboards in rhythms! We learned about the Grand Staff, and a few tricks about reading notes quickly. We did some improvising in the composer’s corner, as well as practicing on musical games.
To work on: Be able to quickly find all the [...]
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