Long Bows and Slurs

One long session today

Clodagh, Biamh, Ning, Emma, Nicole, Andrea

1  Scale using half bows  Make your bow last. Nice even tone

2 Slurs Not on your character . Two notes to a bow

3 Using the CD . Each no has a perfomance track followed bu a backing only. Start at the beginning and work through it. Listen to the track first.

4 Ode to Joy  Long Bows  4th finger

5 Have a go at French Folk Song

6 Mo Gile Mear
   Sheet on noticeboard
 
  D  D    D   E  G  A  B
  C  BA B A G E  D
  G  F    E D G A B C
                                                                                       D' E' D' B A G G

Vibrato

Notes on Cello/ Bass

WS 3 and Slur Exercises issued

Cashel Strings  Worksheet  27th Feb    

No new tunes this week. Getting ready for mid term assessment beginning next week.

10 task Checklist .

√ When you have played

1 Foxtrot  Arco (with Bow )  Longer bows for the two beat (minim ) shorter bows for one beat notes (crotchets)        sh sh Long  l l L

2 Played Blues  Half bows on long notes   Track 12

3 Play Twinkle  two ways  Variation  a  Klfenora Ceili Dancer

4                                                                b Straight  Half bows on star and are

5 Mr Cool  half bows on each note

6 Played        slur exercise 1 , 4 and 5  on slur sheet

7 Scale  on D  1   Pick a rhythm    2  Hlaf bows

New 8 Arpeggio   D  F# A D’   ascending      Broken Chord

                       0  2    0 3

And descending   D’ A F# D

9 With a pencil  complete Theory Worksheet  3

10 own choice  

Bonus  Still bored  Try French Folk Song

Practice Try splitting the task list in half and doing two small practices.