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Hello Everyone Another great week in musIQ club has come and gone. So this past week was actually great because we got to go over the musical alphabet and how these notes are applied to the keyboard! We also went over hand position, and finger numbers. The key thing to remember is always have your [...]
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Hello everyone, and welcome to MusIQ, where each week we learn how to read music and play cool songs on the keyboard! Every week is a new adventure whether we are playing ‘high bird’ notes and ‘low whale’ notes with Mr.Beethoven, listening to jazz with Mr.Joplin, going over the musical alphabet with Mr.Bach, practicing your [...]
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Hello girls, today our little club of 3 was shrunk to 2 as Lauren was away this class. We missed you Lauren! Anyhow a recap of what we learnt: a lot of music is composed in 4 beat rhythms or groups- so far you girls have been taught about ‘holding notes’ which have values of [...]
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Hello all! We had a very fun last class at musIQ this past Thursday. Thank you Emma for the delicious cupcakes For the last class we had a little music party which consisted of freeze dance, musical jeopardy, treats and certificates! I want to congratulate you all on moving up so many lessons/levels, furthering your [...]
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Hello everyone! It was a pleasure being your musIQ club teacher for these past few weeks. Hopefully you all will continue on in music in someway-whether it be the school band, private lessons, or better yet more musIQ club!! For the last class, we all put the finishing touches on our recital pieces. Carly: Great [...]
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Hello girls, we had a very fun musIQ class today…thank you Katelyn for providing the lovely music for our freeze dance game. We all got to play some songs on the keyboard a little today with the speakers attached. Hot cross buns, twinkle twinkle little star, and fur elise! In the lessons today I believe [...]
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Hello great job at musIQ class today. Next week you will all receive your year end certificate of completion as it is the last class for the spring term. I hope you had as much fun as I did and learnt some very valuable musical knowledge that you may utilize someday in the future as [...]
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Hi everyone great job at musIQ Class this week. Next class will be the last for this term. I had a great time as your teacher..looking forward to seeing you register again for September! Anyhow this last class you all worked hard in your lessons as well as prepared a song to play for your [...]
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Hello girls, great job during Friday’s musIQ lesson, we got a lot done today. I believe you all went through the lesson that taught you all about ‘bouncy’ or ‘staccato’ notes, and ‘smooth’, ‘legato’ notes. Staccato and legato are italian terms that are written in music to signify how the notes should be played: sharp [...]
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Hello everyone, hope you are all enjoying the sunny weather! You all did very well in musIQ class today. I noticed a lot of you are enjoying the improvisation room where you can record and save your own compositions. Did you know that you can get these from the library. Also in the library you [...]
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Hello everyone, another eventful day at MuisIQ has passed. This lesson I asked you all to choose your favourite song so you can prepare a little musical piece for your parents on the last day of class, June 14th. I will call/email parents to let everyone know the exact time they should come. You will [...]
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Hi everyone, hope you all enjoyed this past week’s musIQ class. I noticed some of you were learning how to play ‘double notes’, where we play 2 notes at the same time. Just remember, when you are asked to play a ‘high’ note, this can be any note above middle c; while a ‘low’ note [...]
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Hi guys, hope you had fun this past Tuesday at MusIQ club class. Just to recap the lesson: I gave you guys worksheets on the musical alphabet and we named the white keys on the keyboard. Remember there are only 7 letters : A B C D E F G that we use, and each [...]
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Hello girls, hope everyone is having a fabulous long weekend. So just to recap this past Friday, I gave you all worksheets in which you were to trace your hands and label the appropriate finger numbers. I’ve said this time and time again, finger numbers are very important and as we learn more complex music [...]
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Hi everyone, hope you all had fun at musIQ club class today. I know you guys enjoyed the finger numbers worksheet where you traced and colored in your hands while labeling your finger numbers. Using the correct fingers while playing the keyboard makes things a lot easier when we get into learning more difficult songs. [...]
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Hi everyone! Wow today was an extremely busy class with 5 guests in addition to the regular crew! I’m so glad so many students have taken an interest in musiq club it really is a fun way to learn music. Today I gave you all worksheets in which you were to trace your hands and [...]
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Hi guys hope you enjoyed this weeks’ musiq club class. You are all progressing along very nicely. We had a new face today- welcome Rava- I understand you have been in musiq club before; great to have you back. Again everyone, at this stage in the game the most important thing is to always have [...]
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Hey guys, hope you enjoyed your time at musiq club this past Friday I know I did! Today was the first Friday class at Astral Drive with just two students! Lauren and Katelyn completed lessons 3 and 4- reviewing short and long rhythms with Mr.Beethoven. We also went over the musical alphabet, keyboard and recognized [...]
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Hello all, just an update as to what we have been up to in musiq club class. This past Thursday (May 5th) was another full class! Alyvia and Ciara- completed lessons 4 & 5 with Mr.Beethoven. Music and mood are directly connected…think: how do you feel when you hear a slow and mellow song like [...]
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Hi guys! Another successful week at Musiq Club! Thanks everyone for making it so enjoyable! This week we had the most students at Portland Estates so far with the addition of 2 new students- sisters Melayna and Miranda. Great job on completing the lessons for this week. Miranda & Melayna- you girls were just cruising [...]
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