OK STUDENTS - YOU ARE IN TRAINING!

YES! We are in training. With our June Concerts coming, we can all make a special effort to PREPARE: the goal is to be able to have fun playing all your music in class and especially at the concert

HOW do you train for real improvement and enjoyment?

• practice every day if you can, but certainly no less than 4 times per week
• pick a regular time of day to practice and stick with it 
• check out those practice charts-they are designed to help you FOCUS your practice and understand how to really improve!
• in class mark the parts you need to work on most, so you don't forget
• ask your private teacher to help you fix those tricky parts 

                                                         IT"S UP TO YOU!

HOMEWORK THIS WEEK

 

Level 1:
1.Review #36 and 37
2.NEW AFS #38: Mary had a little lamb
3. NEW :Continue in book to #44 the notes are the same, but get more comfortable saying and playing them in different combo's.
4. CONCERT SONGS: 1.Lightly Row
            2. Twinkles: Long bows- smooth and perfectly in tune( round fingers , on tapes)upper half of bow, start DOWN BOW:  Mrssippi Mrssippi, MrssippiHot dog         

Level 2:
 1. #84 O Come Little Children- the whole thing (A) Start at middle UP BOW to frog, then
(B)  do long and short bows correctly, (C) REPEAT! -then you've GOT IT!
2. review #97 to 101
3. Review #127  counting "1 and 2 and" in each bar
4. NEW: March from Scipio. review bars 1 to 4. violins remember to count 1 and 2 and for short notes (eighth notes as in #127
5. NEW: Canon, practice / learn your notes  Mark in finger #'s if needed(pencil)
6 Concert Song $75 for the concert!

Level 3:
1.Practice tips: (a).fill in your charts for cues for practice 2(b)play the scale before each piece
2. Scale of F- Handel Air continue through to the end
3. CONCERT PIECES: Allegro, Scipio, Chariots, Hornpipe, Vivaldi Concerto,
4. NEW: Gabriel's Oboe- very smooth bowing PRACTICE Bars 27 to 30 MOST!


                                   HAVE A VERY GOOD WEEK OF MUSIC MAKING!