Saturday, May 28, 2011

International Day 2011


Mahfouz in his fabulous costume
 The Blazing Bows Ensemble  had a wonderful perfomance in the hall  with Ms Vaughan ands her Grupa Ceoil on Friday 27th May as part of the school Intercultural Day.  It was a bit of a squeeze getting so many musicians in  but what a great sound. The concert started with solos from Ms Vaughan's after school students  on tin whistle , fiddle and piano.   Here was the joint programme.

French Folk Song    pizz on D
Foxtrot 
Blues  
D Monkey 
Echo Twinkle
Cill FCais  Pizz on G
Mo Gile Mear   Double stopping on G and D
Titanic       tremelo on G     Bows side to side
Halleluia   GG  zz D D zz
Oh When the Saints Go Marching In Down Bow Retakes 

Everyone joined in the last number and everyone sang along .

Everyone in the class received a certificate to say they have completed Level 1 of the Stringschool Programme . Congratulations to all of you.



Ms Power presents my bouquet


Friday, May 27, 2011

International Day





Karen Vaughan talks about her approach to teaching music in Chríost Rí, National School in Ennis, Co Clare

.Listen!

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Term Time resumes

Here is what we did this week.  We are looking ahead to our final performance of this year , the school Intercultural Day on 27th  of May. 

1 We worked on Twinkle as an echo to Ms Vaughan on piano . Ms Vaughan's part is shaded in red and our bit is in plain black ink

D D D D       A  A   A A      B B   B B    A  A 
         0 0                 0  0                 1 1          0
    Dip to show all fingers going down on D  string.

G G G G      F#F#  F#F#     E  E   E E   D     D 
         3  3                 2   2               1 1            0

We also worked on our scale  Darling river monkey     to our cappucino coffee rhythm


To finish we worked on Blues and  Foxtrot