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Your Family is Invited to a Concert (Sunday, May 16th)

Brass Impact in Concert Featuring MusIQ Club Teachers from the Halifax area. Rafael Alcolado – piano Remi Lefebvre – tenor saxophone Adele Jane Merritt – clarinet Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010 Time: 3:00 PM Place: St. Matthew’s United Church -  1479 Barrington Street, Halifax Admission: Free Will Offering at the door (Church Fundraiser)

You’re Invited To A Concert on June 21st in Halifax

Brass Impact In Concert Date: Sunday, June 21st (Father’s Day) Time: 7 PM Place: Edgewood-Oxford United Church – corner of Young and Connaught Featuring from MusIQ Club: Rafael Alcolado – Piano Chris Churchill – Bass Alice Hansen – Violin With Barry Banks – Cornet Admission: Free Will Offering at the door (Church Fundraiser) Join us [...]

MusIQ Club Director Adjudicates Festival

Rafael Alcolado, HRM MusIQ Club Director has been asked to adjudicate all of the Junior piano classes at the 71st Annual Music Festival in New Glasgow this week. He will be adjudicating junior piano classes from Tuesday, April 28 to Friday, May 1st. View the website

Atlantic View Elementary, P-2, Mondays, 1:30-2:30

We had a really nice class on Monday.  Students were working on CMJ 1A Lessons 11, 12, and 13.  One boy really enjoyed the Pirates treasure game.  One boy reviewed songs on Level 2A (third term) by playing songs with line notes and space notes.  Several of the children had Mr. Joplin as a teacher, [...]

Atlantic Memorial, Grades P-6, Fridays from 8:00-9:00 (April 17)

Lesson 54: Today, Mr. Handel taught us about a new kind of note, which is called the Eighth Note. This note, is worth half of a quarter note, which means it gets half a count. If this is all true, then how many eighth notes do we have in one beat? (Answer is: 2) After [...]

Atlantic Memorial, Grades P-6, Fridays from 8:00-9:00 (April 3)

Lesson 53: Today, Mr. Handel showed us how to play some new songs on the Grand Staff, using all the notes we have learnt so far. This means we played all the notes going up to the G in our Right Hand, and down to the low F in our Left Hand. You are all [...]

Atlantic Memorial, Grades P-6, Fridays from 8:00-9:00 (March 13)

IMPORTANT NOTE TO ALL PARENTS: Well, the term has come to an end already! The next term is scheduled to begin on Friday, April 3rd. Please make sure to register soon to ensure the class can start on time! To register, go to http://www.musiqclub.com or give us a call at 405-4071! Lesson 19: A few [...]

Atlantic Memorial, Grades P-6, Fridays from 8:00-9:00 (March 6)

Lesson 17: Today was all about playing and singing songs! We started off the class by meeting with Miss Mendelssohn and doing two different lessons on playing and singing songs such as Mary Had A Little Lamb. These lessons were a lot of work, so we went to see Miss Melody in the practice room [...]

Atlantic Memorial, Grades P-6, Fridays from 8:00-9:00 (Feb 27)

Lesson 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. [...]

Atlantic Memorial, Grades P-6, Fridays from 8:00-9:00 (Feb 20)

Lesson 14: Today’s class was all about letters. What kind of letters? Why the musical alphabet of course! Mr. Joplin did a great job at teaching us all about it and how we use it to play music! The musical alphabet has 7 letters. It goes from A to G and then repeats, over and [...]

Atlantic Memorial, Grades P-6, Fridays from 8:00-9:00 (Feb 6)

Lesson 12: What an exciting class we had today! We met Mr. Joplin again in the Lesson Room and he taught us how to form a 5 finger ant tunnel with our Left Hand! He also showed us the finger numbers on this hand! Afterward, we spent some time in the practice room with Miss [...]

Atlantic Memorial, Grades P-6, Fridays from 8:00-9:00 (Jan 30)

Lesson 11: Today we met with another new teacher. His name was Mr. Scott Joplin, and he was alive about 100 years ago. Isn’t it great that even though his parents had no money, his mother was able to get jobs cleaning houses for the rich so her son could play on their pianos to [...]

Atlantic Memorial, Grades P-5, Fridays from 8:00-9:00 (Jan 24)

Lesson 9 & 10: Today we did two lessons with Mr. Bach! We started off by learning how to play several notes going up, or going down. We call this playing high notes and then higher notes as well as low and then lower notes! The trickiest part is that you always have to make [...]

Atlantic Memorial Elementary, Grades P-5, Friday from 8:00-9:00

Lesson 9 & 10: Today we did two lessons with Mr. Bach! We started off by learning how to play several notes going up, or going down. We call this playing high notes and then higher notes as well as low and then lower notes! The trickiest part is that you always have to make [...]

Atlantic Memorial, Grades P-6, Fridays from 8:00-9:00 (Dec 19)

Lesson 8: Today, Mr. Bach helped us learn about Double Notes! This means, we are now playing up to 2 notes at the SAME TIME! You are all doing a fantastic job, and after some practice with Miss Melody, you were ready to go and see what different double notes sound like in the improvisation [...]

Atlantic Memorial, Grades P-6, Fridays from 8:00-9:00 (Dec 12)

Lesson 7: Mr, Bach spent today’s lesson, helping us learn more about holding notes, and made sure we feel comfortable playing all the different notes on the keyboard, while holding them for different amounts of time. After this lesson, we went to the Practice Room, where we all worked with Miss Melody to refine our [...]

Last Day of Classes HRM (updated!)

Atlantic Memorial – Terence Bay Elementary P-6 Fri – 19-Dec Atlantic View Elementary P-2 Thur – 4-Dec Basinview Drive Community School P-2 Mon – 15-Dec Basinview Drive Community School 3-6 Mon – 15-Dec Beechville Lakeside Timberlea Elementary P-2 Fri – 19-Dec Beechville Lakeside Timberlea Elementary 3-5 Thur – 4-Dec Crichton Park Elementary P-2 Mon – [...]

Atlantic Memorial, Grades P-6, Fridays from 8:00-9:00 (Dec 5)

Lessons 5 & 6: Today we met with Mr. Beethoven for one last time. He helped us review everything we have learned so far in MusIQ Club. He reviewed high bird notes and low whale notes, then he made sure we still remember everything about Middle C and circle notes as well! Let’s not forget [...]

Atlantic Memorial, Grades P-6, Fridays from 8:00-9:00 (Nov 21)

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 [...]

Register Now for Winter ’09

You can now register for MusIQ Club’s Winter 2009 Term (HRM). Register Online Now or Phone: 405-4071 (MF 9:00AM -5:00PM) Registration is first-come, first-served so register as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. We allocate MusIQ Club teachers to the sessions that fill up first. As always, we hope to hear from you with any [...]

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