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.

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

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

2  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 Yonder?  BGBG 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?

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 

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 

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 

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

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 

1 Musical Families  Wind Tenor. Tin Whistle / Clarinet  keys

                                Brass  Trumpet 3 fingers Lip pressure

                                Strings Uke         Percussion Drum Shaker

          

2 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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