International Day Public Debut






Flying Fingers Fire Brigade View




F F Trio Turlough, Mark  and Joe 



Mark tinkles the ivories

The Flying Fingers Violin Ensemble made their public debut last Friday in a live performance on the school grounds as part of the International Day Festivities at Ennis Educate Together National School .  Both classes combined to make a super group with teachers Claire and Gemma  .  The rain threatened but held off long enough to allow the performance . Here is our programme

Foxtrot
Two String Reggae
Toreadors March
Wintertime in Russia
First Finger Riff
Vivaldi in G

Ayoub made his debut on double bass and Romanca led the ensemble . Bravo tutti !  Mark , keyboard supremo from 3rd class accompanied the class on the last number and followed with an uptempo Slovakian  number of his own choice .  Amongst the other entertainment on offer, the barbershop quartet  'Chill' followed with a performance and  I joined Conor Keane on accordion to play some traditional Irish  duos with fiddle and box . Congratulations to all the ensemble on a wonderful debut . Looking forward to the next one !

Conor Keane on Box

Week 7 Rehearsing for Intercultural Day

We rehearsed our programme for next week.   We did the same programme as last week.  We really nailed the sring crossing today.  There was a big improvement in bowing work today. Some people were really good. Debbie , Treasa and Natalia made great leaders .   Can't wait for our first performance !!

Week 6 New open string E

Classes came in reverse order today with Gemma and her 4th class first in to the parents room.  Keyboard supremo Mark worked on a new song today.  We revised the open strings  G D and A Claires class went on to open string E . We worked on Wintertime in Russia. - Remember small bows for Win-ter-time -in .

Here is todays programme

4th class  Gemma
Vivaldi in G
Two string Reggae
Toreadors March
First finger riff  on D 
Wintertime in Russia    with bow

5th Class Claire
First finger Riff on D
New  Slovak Song  D A E A       Chord sequence
Vivaldi in G
Two string Reggae
Wintertime in Russia
Athacama Crossing   crossing from D to A

Really good attention paid throughout by both groups. 

Week 5 Two String reggae

Programme today

Vivaldi on G
Two String Reggae   Gz G z    D zDz   GG DD   Dz G z
Toreadors March
Foxtrot

First finger riff   EEEEEEEE DDDDDDDD EEEEEEEE DDDD  E_ E_   Count to 8

Bow grip   Rus sia   Down Up     remember bend your thumb

Well done to Mark for improvising on keyboard .

Lesson 4

Maire Ni Cathain visited our class today . We played Foxtrot and Toreador's March for her .  We worked on a cool new riff. see below

E E E E E E E E  D D D D D D D D    E E E E E E E E  D D D D  E_ E_

1  1 1 1 1 1 1 1   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0   1  1 1 1 1 1 1 1   0 0 0 0      1 1

We worked on our bow hold    Remember  Bend your thumb and make your rabbit's ears

Can you remember the notes of the three lowest strings? 

We played Rock - You on open string A  to a rock accompaniment

Twins

Mark  keyboard  supremo joined 5th class on keyboard as accompanist

Joe

3 Foxtrot and Tremelos

Today we had some new students Daniel and Sabrina who caught up very quickly. Mark joined us on keyboard

Here is our new tune today  . It features the open strings D and A

Foxtrot

D D D_  A A A _  D D D_ A A A _

D D D_  D D D_  A A A_   A A| D z

Bow Grip
Make a ring  with thumb and middle finger  

Rus sia   Down Up 

We learned how to play a scary tremelo  by moving our bow very fast on the string .

  Next week  We will rock you

Things to  practice this week
1 Bow grip with  a pencil 
2 Toreadors March 
3 Foxtrot

Toreadors March New Note A

We moved on today to do some new things in music class . We played pizzicato to

Toreador's March and learned a new note A . We learned how to read  new note A and D  on the stave ( 5 lines).

Our new instrument today was the double bass . Check it out on the photo !

You can click on the link  below to listen to one being played

 http://www.dsokids.com/listen/instrumentdetail.aspx?instrumentid=7

Well done to Peter and Debbie who were leaders today!

Can you remember what a Toreador does?

 What three strings have we learned?