Monday 15 December 2014

Recorder Recital : Trouble At Treble Island


































Trouble at Treble Island                            






B Groovy tribe .
B Really Groovy Tribe.
Music has a Steady Beat Musical sentences   Butterflys,  Alligators, Goblins, Donkeys Elephants
Bird Sounds Cuckoo GE GE  Owls and trills ~~   
Stripy Cat Crawl  
Old McDonald
Percussion interlude.  Ocean Drum
 Clair de la Lune  
Frere Jacque      
Joe Joe  
What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor 
Hot Cross Buns   
Who’s That Yonder  
Engine no 9 
Finale Jingle Bell Rock .
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Visiting tutor Cathy Desmond : www.cathydesmondstringschool.com



Full Text of Treble Island Here 

 End of Term Report Dec 




Standing Ovation from our audience today


So Many Thank You Cards: Thank You everybody

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Wednesday 10 December 2014

Monday 1 December 2014

Group Tutorials



Red Kettle visited the Meeting Room today. It was such fun. We are looking forward to putting on a show too in two weeks time

More on Treble Island next week.Image result for treble clef

BAG notes secure . More practice needed  getting the low D and low E

Make Sure you can blow all 5 notes clearly . BAG are easier than E and low D

Tonguing Don't forget, in order to make the notes properly  say Du or tut into your recorder-- not hah hah hah . We are working on Task List 7 / You can print off a copy here.

THE SNOWMAN in WATERFORD

Boys and Girls   You can hear a live orchestra in our very own Theatre Royal on Sunday as they play the lovely music by Howard Blake to the story of The Snowman. Check with the Theatre for bookings  Showtimes 1pm and 3pm
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NJS Recorder Task List 7
NJS Lyrics





Wednesday 19 November 2014

Lesson 7: Hunting Horns Note Skipping

No new notes today.
Well done Hannah for super sentences based on Butterfly, alligator, goat, elephant, donkey

Illustration from BBC Ten Pieces Mozart Horn Concerto No 4

Listen to the piece here
 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/tv/tenpieces/mozart.mp3

More information here  on Mozart Horn Concerto
http://bristolcdn.s3.amazonaws.com/bbcmusic/Ten%20Pieces%20PDFS/2.%20Mozart.pdf

*****New Song 

Who's that yonder 
Who's that yonder dressed in red
Must be the children that old Moses led
Who's that yonder dressed in white
Must be the children of the Israelite 


 NJS Worksheet 7

Varying the tempo  Allegro Presto   Moderato Andante  Largo Adagio
1 Bill Was A Bandit Big Bad and Bold ….
     All thro’ April Rain Rain Wind and Rain
          Gilbert Goblin gob-led up a goat
                     Donkeys dither in the noon day sun
                               Elelphants Walk with an aw-ful bump
BAG Tunes  Hot Cross Buns    BAG_ BAG_ ggggaaaa  BAG_
                         Clair de Lune  GGGA B_ A_ GBAA G_ _  _
                         Joe Joe  see  NJS Task List 6
                        Merrily We Roll Along     BAGA BBB_ AAA_ BBB_ 
                                                                    BAGA BBBB AABA G_ _ _
         Skipping a  Note Exercise BGB_  BGB_   
                     Who’s That YonderBGBG BGB z B bbbaga BAG_
3   Frere Jacque Part 1  GABA     x4
                              Part 4  GDG_ GDG_  x4
4  Engine Song  ggeeggE  x4  Choo Choo  Try this at different speeds
              Fast – allegro   slow largo  medium –andante
5 Elephants E_ _     G_ _   E_ _   G_ _   ABA    GAG    E_ E G _ _
                      1-2-3 
                      Hump Wump Hump Wump  elephants walk with an awful bump

 6 10 pieces Horn Concerto Mozart
A How many times does the main tune come round
B Concerto Can you find out what a ‘concerto’ is
C How many brass instruments can you name ______________________________________

D The music changes from major to minor after a 1.20 How does the mood change?

Thursday 13 November 2014

Lesson 6 New Note D




















Below are the practice tips for this week.
(Note  Stripy Cat Crawl on the agenda for next week. )


  ***New Note Low D     Can you play all five notes start with B  B A G    E D
                                                                                            1 2 3    2 3    
       
Double Bass Notes  Elephant Alligator Donkey Goat  
 Tick when you can

Play all 5 notes clearly –aim for a strong clear sound

Make up a sentence with these words
               Butterfly , alligator, goblin, elephant, donkey
Eg I saw a butter-fly on the win-dow pane Play each sentence on the appropriate note
   El-e-phants walk with an awful bump

Now play all your sentences one after another

BAG Tunes 1Play  Hot Cross Buns nice and smoothly  BAG_BAG_gggg aaaa BAG_

                    2 Play part 1 Frere Jacque   GABA

                    3 Play  Clair de la lune G G G A B_A_G B A A G_ _ _

                4 Joe Joe    G G aa A     bb aa gg G
                 bbbb aaA   bb aa gg G
                 aa gg bbA  bb aa  gg G

               5 Merrily we row BAGA BBB_  AAA_  BBB_
                                               BAGA BBBB AABA  G_ _ _

Bird sounds Make a sound like a cuckoo  G E GE GE
                      Make a trill sound  Try different fingers which is easiest?

Train Song ggee ggE ggee ggE  x 2 practice some choo choo sound s

Sight Reading Stripy Cat Crawl two notes**



Listening Piece Dance Macabre by Saint Saens Find out more about this composer .  www.classicsforkids.com Think of spooky skeleton sounds

Can you pick out a rhythm What conducting pattern would you use 2, 3 or 4

Double Bass Leon Sorcha 




Monday 3 November 2014

Lesson 5 Boats and Trains



3 Note BAG Tunes

Hot Cross Buns

B A G_ BAG_ ggggaaaa BA G_

Joe Joe  Question and Answer

Frere Jacque   GABG

 New Note E


Songs Drunken Sailor   Riff  AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAGGGGA_A_



Engine Engine No 9
Sing Clap Play 

Monday 13 October 2014

Being a Conductor

Maths Music Patterns 

Lesson  3 

Alphabet Rap  

Two note tunes   B B BB B  A AA AA AA 
Lines and Space 



SING CLAP PLAY
Introduce new note G  Move from one note to two  note patterns
Consolidate rhythm awareness  through rhythm cards clapping


Listening Strand  Prelude to Carmen

Elements of music Conducting pattern 4 in a bar March Rhythm / Pulse Dynamics Structure Timbre

Track 1 B Groovy and
Track 2 B Really Groovy

New Note  G 

New Note G 
Conducting Patterns 

Monday 6 October 2014

Day 2: New Note A New Bow Hold

Here is what we did today

Song   Sea Shanty  Drunken Sailor

We learned 2 verses  of this seas shanty

Sound Effects Added Sea Sounds Wind Howling   Recorders whistling
                    Fog Horns          Low string Drones
                    Percussion         Ocean Drum

Riff / Ostinato   A repeated pattern added to a melody In various popular music styles, riff refers to a brief, relaxed phrase repeated over changing melodies

First finger on D makes E 



  












EEEEEEEE                    DDDDDDDD       EEEEEEEE               DDDDDDDD    E_          E_
Drunken Sailor x2                                       Drunken Sailor x2                                  Heave  _HO 
                                        Drunken Sailor x2                                    Drunken Sailor  

Theory Corner  Musical Alphabet  

ABCDEFG   Can you say it backwards   How many letters?


Recorder  Revision Note B  B raps
New Note on Recorder A


All Through April Rain Rain Wind and Rain 
 1      1           V       1       1       V            I

Ants Came Ambling one two three

Acorns Grow in an Old Oak Tree 

Crawled Up Albert Tick-led his knee 

Win ter Time in Rus-sia  V V  I    I 

Drun-ken Sail-or              V V V V


New Bow Grip    See video

Little finger on the end
Can you make your thumb bend
Sleepng Beauty lying down.

Rhythm  Wintertyime in Russia

Solo Corner 

Ronan on Recorder Scherzino  Bonser

       Next Week Aisling on Violin

Next Week 

  1 New Note G on Recorder   BA Tunes/ Riffs
  2 Groovy B tunes
  3 Scale on D   Notes on D string




Monday 29 September 2014

Music Class Jamboree to start new term

Music Room at NJS 

Today was lots of fun. Here is what we did today. Wonderful to have our principal, Mrs Ruane join us on percussion today.



Musical Families

We began by looking at the four musical families.  We had a closer look at a clarinet and a trumpet. This year we add wind instruments to strings in our instrumental class . We learned how to make our first note B, how to separate notes by tonguing and what the note looks like on the stave.  Can you make up your own sentence and play it to note B






Mouthpiece 



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Lesson 1
Focus          Musical Alphabet BAG fingering Introducing the Stave
Context Setting 
Musical Families  Wind Tenor. Tin Whistle / Clarinet  keys
                                Brass  Trumpet 3 fingers Lip pressure
                                Strings Uke         Percussion Drum Shaker

          
Preparing to play Fingers Thumb , 1 2 3 4 LH/  RH    Top Left (Left Hand
3 Breathing Deep breath  Blow out the Candles Quickly/slowly
   Steady Palm in front  Blow out slowly How many beats?
Fountain analogy stop the water leaking flat fingers
4 Playing Exercises
Note B Learning to play B Cover thumb and top hole Echo 4 beat patterns
Explain Tongueing. Using your tongue to make a full stop Doo
Clap Play  B
B Raps
Brown Boot Black Boots              
Left Right Left Right
Aon Do Muc is Bo
Tri Ceathair Mala Leathair
Bill Was a Bandit      Big Bad -and Bold  
Burst in the Bank     And pinched all the gold

4th class Strings  Prog 
Open String Rap 
New Number Beguine  Samba  pizzicato and tremelo Tremelo 

New Note B  First finger down  on A string 

Welcoming Luke to the programme 
Open strings on stave 


Ten Pieces 
Ripples in the Rockpools https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_2Dhb4mQto
  
'Principal' Percussionist


Ten Pieces
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Monday 7 April 2014

Telling Stories

Three Billy Goats Gr\uff

Trip Trap Trip Trap x3 Col Legno

Trip          Trap       Trip       Trap
Left           rt           Lt           Rt

Down      Up          Down      Up 

Down                    Down                Down                   Down

Tremelo Trolll

Glissando   Up      Up in the air  

Glissando Down    Down in the river

Splash                  Up bow

Rock and Roll Bows   happy sound   after sweey green grass


5th 6th class   Three little Pigs 

Tuesday 1 April 2014

Telling Stories Music Marathon

Welcoming Mrs McSweeney to the project this week

Music Marathon  Programme  below

3/4
Foxtrot
Toreadors March
Vivaldi in G
Wintertime in Russia Fast /Slow
Crosss Lake Blues
Scale on D
Irelands Call
;
   5th 6th

Telling a story
Three Little pigs

Violin   Sound Effects
1Down Retakes       2Up Bow Retakes
3Tremelo   on strings 1, 2 3,4
4Strum   Forward
5Knocking on wood  
6Pizz       descending    rain   EADG
7Pizz ascending  GDAE
8Rock and Roll  bow over all 4 strings
9Bow behind bridge   for squealing
10 wolf theme on Double bass  bowing fast A E A E A E A E tremolo on A  off
11 First Finger glissando

The three little pigs
Bows down 
1 Once there were three little pigs .  (Garry ,   solo pause   watch for signal  two beats  (pizz on G  2Danny solo    Pause)   cue two counts D  pause and Arnie solo  pause   ) A
3Time came for them to leave home and make their own home.   They were so sad to  be leaving home they played the KBlues  before they left  First finger riff
4The first little pig Garry found a nice spot on the Lissycasey Road   and began building  his house of straw  pizz ascending  wait for   12 counts  GGGG DDDD AAAA EEEE  (Add row by row    Watch for cut off )
5When he finished he sat down and admired his new house .  Rock and Roll**  
6But look who is this coming up to Gary’s door. It’s a wicked wolf semitone theme
7  Then there were three knocks on the door    Cue ¾ (Knock Knock Knock )
‘Who’s there’ .   Mr wolf  
Little pig Let me come in ………’Not by the hair on my chinny  chin  chin’
8 So the wolf huffed  follow leader  (tremolo on G  he puffed (tremolo on D and he blew the house down    (down arpeggio   EADG together    plus bass pizz G D)

9 The second little pig gathered some wood , got out his hammer and nails and began building his house of timber    (Kilfenora Ceili Dancer     Arco assigned a string each row GGGGGGGG DDDDDDDD AAAAAAAA EEEEEEEE

10 Very soon the house was ready and the little pig sat down admire his work  Rock and roll but 
11who is this coming up to his front door  semitone theme  
12( Knock knock knock)  Guess who ! 
13 Guess who ? ( Wolf Theme ) Little pig let me come in      Not by……..
14  ( So he huffed    G  tremolo   and puffed  D tremolo   
15and blew the house of stix in    arpeggio descending off and bass pizz).

16 The last pig took his time . He decided to bulid his house of bricks . When he had got all his supplies he  slowly  began to build his house of bricks

17  Pause down bow retakes     slow  G     G     G   G etc DD D D A AAA E E E E

18 And at last he sat down to look at his lovely house  Rock and roll  but whats this !
19Guess who is rowing across the lake  semitone theme  .
20 The little pig ran Into the house with him and     he shut the door  slap on wood .   (

21The water was choppy and the wolf’s boat rolled about in the water rock and Roll

 22It began to rain Pizz EADG rpeat  but eventually the soggy wolf arrived at the little pigs door Knock knock knock

. Little pig little pig let ,me come in  Not   by hair ………….

23 So he huffed tremolo  G
24 He puffed  tremolo  D  

25And he huffed    ####### G again
26He puffed      #######   D gradually slow down  but he couldn’t blow the house down
27 he looked for another way in   First finger gliss up  on Dhe climbed up the chimney 

28 But quick as a flash  he little put a match to the fire   34   Up bow retake

29 The flames  grew higher  Gliss on D A E
30  The wolfs cries grew louder    Bow behind bridge Tremelo on E  Watch for cut off  Bass Pizz on A E
Down into the pot Gliss down and Splash  Up bow 
That was the end of the big bad wolf and the little pigs had a party before going back to work to rebuild their houses
Twinkle Twinkle  Echo Twinkle with Band

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Monday 24 March 2014

Farewell Cello Performance

Today we bid adieu to Ms Miller

We marked the occasion with an in house performance by 3/4  of three of our ensemble pieces.

We began with Drunken Sailor using our first finger riff.  Next we played a new piece , Daisy , Daisy with Cian and Jordan taking the melody

Finally we played Shetland Song , repeating the first finger riff.

Chord: Two or more Notes played together

5th/6th  class listened to major and minor chords


Chord  two or more notes played together. Most chords have three notes. 


 A  B  C#  D   F# G   B  C  D    Chord of D is D F#A 
             1    3    5           Chord  of A is A C# E