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