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.  

C natural / Fingers on Cello

Primary School
Scale using half Bows
Slurs
Blues ( 1 Finger)
Hot Cross Buns
Mr Cool
Twinkle

Programme today

Group 1
Bile em cabbage
Twinkle Twinkle 
Ode to Joy
Ning,  Ciara, Clodagh  

Group 2
Ode to Joy  using 4th finger
Slurs         86
C natural  106
Lightly Row 
Nicole, Maya and Niamh 

Ensemble (3)
Radetsky/ Tabhair Dom/ Sky Boat Somg 

Keep working your way through the book. Play along with cd.

Long Bows and Slurs

Primary School Class 

1 Half Bows .  practice using half bows.
2Mr Cool Notes on A string    Tones/ semitones
3Slurs

 

Bows on at middle .  Aim for a steady tone with no bulges.

Slur 

CCC Class 1     Present  Ning, Clodagh, Ciara, Corinne

3 tunes  Hot x Buns/ Twinmkle / Bile em cabbage
Book Issued  Essential Elements  Start at the beginning

CCC Class 2   Emma, Maya, Niamh, Andrea,  Nicole

Half Bows Scale    ***New   Longer bows
Slurs
Ode to Joy  no 86     new**** 4th finger

Ensemble   (2)
La Cumparsita   Bass part marked.
Autumn
Radetsky March


Practice Guidelines issued today

Cashel Strings  Task Checklist       6^th Feb   Week 4 Term 2

Revision : √  When you can

□  Sing and play Hot Cross Buns on each string in turn.

□  Sing and Play Part 1  and 2 Frere Jacque    88 Essential Elements

□  Sing and play Part 3 and 4  Frere Jacque 

□    Sing and play  One finger down  Blues

□    Sing and play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

□ Sing and play Old McDonald  Track 10  try playing it without your cd first.   

□ Play a scale with long slow bows on each note .  Bow near bridge . Open out your arm

New to try this week

SJtB Mr Cool  Long Notes   Bow rhythm on open string first

CCC  Ode to Joy    86 Essential Elements

French Folk Song  Tune based on scale with 3 beats in each bar.  No 106 Essential Elements

The Slur     Divide your bow in half 

Down        Up

D      A       A     D

Roll Over Bows

Tremelo

Make a Note here of  any questions .  Any difficulties .?

Fri

Sat

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Mon

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Weds 

Lift Off Term 2

Cashel Strings

Here is the task list for this week 

Task List  term 2 Week 3

Scale Corner 

1 Starting on open D, play a scale pizzicato saying each letter name out loud, D, E ….etc

2 Choose a rhythm, an insect thythm  ta-ran-tu-la ,  caterpillar, butterfly , play with  bow,

3 Play with long notes . Divide your bow in half. Make the notes last for two whole beats (minims)

Tunes

2 New Tune Frere Jacque  

Step 1 Tap Your toe and say /sing the letter names

Step 2 Play pizz and say/ sing letters

Step 3 Shadow bow and sing letter names

Step 4 Play the rhythm on any open string

Step 5 Bow and play the whole tune working on one phrase at a time

Frere Jacque .

  Practice each section over and over until you have it . You can write the fingers under the notes on the stave  .

Write the letter names below .

A 

B

C

D

Revision

Blues  Beguine , Foxtrot

Old Mc Donald

Bile em Cabbage

Next week French Folk Song and Mr Cool

NS 5 students 

Community College 

Students present : Ning, Niamh, Emma, Maya, Andrea, Clodagh -- Corinne , Ciara 

First session      Frere Jacque, Old MacDonald  Scales see above 

Second session  Scale , Bile Em Cabbage Old MacDonald

Ensemble   (2 ) 

Numbers , No Matter What, Autumn, Slievenamon, Eine Kleine

Fiddles are tuned and ready for collection in music room

     Also a copy of Essential Elements and practice tip sheet 

Next Week Group 1 Ning Corinne, Ciara , Clodagh 

                     Group 2 Maya , Emma, Niamh , Andrea 

Quack Quack Here

Programme


Worksheet 2


Task List Put a tick when you do each task                                         S S M T W Th F
1 Play Your name all 4 strings
2 Blues 13  notes on last post.

3 Hot Cross Buns all 4 strings
  New**** 4Old Mac  (a ) Rhythm only (b) pizz fingers down (c) arco
5 Beguine Tr 12
6Bow River 29
7Twinkle 24 Rhythm Only Then with fingers down
8Twinkle Variation 19 ┌┐┌┐││ Win=ter time in Rus-sia

Hot Cross Buns
2 1 0_   2 1 0_ oooo     l l l  l     2 1 0_
F#E D             DDDD EEEE     F#E D
D________________________


Old McDonald 
3  3  3  0 1 1 0 _   1 1  0 0 3_ _ Repeat
G G G D E E D_ B B AA G

Oo 3 3 3 oo 3 3 3_     33 3 333 33333_3_ middle line

3 3 3 0 1 1 0 _1 1 0 0 3_ _


Frere Jacques


Part 1      DE F#D x 2 
Part 2      F#G A_  x2
Part 3      ABAG F#_D_ x 2 
Part 4      D A D_ x2

Mexican Wave Rhythms 

New Term Begins

SJBNS

Niamh, Anna, Tom, Kate , Louise

Here are links to the sheets  given in class today

Welcome to term 2 sheet 1

New Tune Blues see video


Group 1  Niamh, Emma Maya, Ning, x

Group 2 Andrea Nicole Brigit Corinne. Ciara

Programme  1  Triplets ,  2  Twinkle  3 Scale

Use middle of bow Use 1/4 bows and 1/2 bows for long notes.

Ensemble Rose Johanna Sarah, Nicole  Christchurch by J S Sheahan, Abba , Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 

Cashel Strings Debut in Science Room Session

The Taster Module finished with a performance workshop for first year music class. Here is the programme 

Concert 2 Stringschool at Cashel  Community College

1 We start with a simple pizzicato on lowest string G  The backing track features bass stringed instruments in a piece by Italian baroque composer , Vivaldi . Pizzicato is an Italian word and  means to pluck the string

2 Next piece is another pizzicato piece . Foxtrot is a dance with 4 beats in a bar.

3 /4 The next thing we learned was how to hold the bow. In the next two numbers we play arco, ie with bow and we change string from D to A

5 The next step was to learn how to place our fingers .  Violin high 5  1^st 2^nd and 3^rd finger to make all the notes of the scale    Here are all the notes on D

6 Then next all the notes on A string

7 Finally all the notes in the octave Low to High Doh

8 Here are all the notes on lowest string G in We Will Rock You

Mr Murray with Cashel Community Strings following debut 

9/10  This next number  is a French Folk tune and was set to words by a 19^th century English poet and became  the most popular nursery song ever.

11 The next track has a bluegrass feel  Bow River  We segue into a Bluegrass tune Bile em cabbage down using the Bow River rhythm

12 Finally audience participation number

Bile em cabbage down down

Burn them biscuits brown brown

The only tune that I can play is

Bile em cabbage down

Ensemble Don Oiche Ud i mBeithil

O Tannenbaum  (Oh Christmas Tree)

Announcing Level 2 programme commences in January week 2 .  Class size limited .  Practice commitment between classes required.  Enquiries  Mr Murray 

Part 2 

After all that excitement we wound down with a couple of ukulele sessions 

Ukulele Group 2

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