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?