Saturday, March 19, 2011

Celebrating St Patrick's Day at Blazing Bows


 Sally Garden  Reel  Today we looked at some Irish dance tunes .Ms Vaughan and I demonstrated a reel on tin whistle and fiddle .

Can you remember how many parts make up most polkas and  reels  Why do dance tunes have strong regular  rhythms ?
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We  also worked on our Blues  first finger tune and                         *********************   
We Will Rock You riff

C   B    A    G   AA    We Will Rock You  finger pattern on G string
3    2     1     0    11            REMEMBER 2 AND 3 CLOSE TOGETHER

Dá Téada ag an t-am céanna  - Double Stopping  Everybody learned how to play two strings together at the same time .

The class spent some time during the week looking at  the trad  section on www.exploremusic.ie    

My award for Best Student  went to Katie  today

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